[The above public art piece showed up in Atlanta this past December, shortly after Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”] For the most part, I try not to suggest that anyone – even those whom I truly despise – are, “like Hitler.” As tempting as it might […]
Tag Archives: Ted McClelland
Maybe Donald Trump isn’t Hitler, but I think he’s got potential
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, authoritarianism, Donald Trump, fascism, fear, Free Speech, genocide, Hitler, illegal immigration, Lee Atwater, Louis C.K., Make America Great Again, Mississippi, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, racism, reality television, Ronald Reagan, scapegoats, southern strategy, threats to Democracy, uncertainty 14 Comments
The Porking of Michigan: We were promised high-tech jobs. Instead, we were given a pork processing plant.
A few years ago, I interviewed an author here by the name of Ted McClelland, a former Michigander who, as you might recall, had stirred up a little bit of a shit storm after referring to our home state as “Michissippi” in an article on Salon.com about our passage of so-called right-to-work legislation. “Michigan,” said […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged cheap labor, Clemens Food Group, Coldwater, Community Development Block Grant, Doug Clemens, food processing, gut snatcher, hogs, lame duck, meat packing, meat production, MEDC, Michigan Strategic Fund, Michissippi, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter 23 Comments
Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Zach Pollock
A few days ago, I posted an interview I did with an author by the name of Ted McClelland, who has written extensively about the emmigration of young professionals from Michigan to Chicago. To sum up our conversation in one sentence, McClelland believes that we have little hope of keeping bright, young people here in […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Black Jake, Black Jake and the Carnies, Capitalism, Chicago, Cool Cities, Corner brewery, Depot Town, diversification, East Cross Street, education reform, emigration, exit interviews, graffiti, Growing Hope, Hipsilanti, Huron River, mandolin, Ohio, property theft, radon, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Spur Studios, Stuart Beal, taxes, things from Ohio that are tolerable, Thompson Block, Toledo, Water Street Redevelopment Project, Woodruff's, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti Public Schools, Ypsilanti real estate, Zach Pollock 15 Comments