This past weekend, it was announced that former Michigan Governor Rick “let’s throw an opulent secret birthday party for my wife while people are dying in Flint” Snyder had been named a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School. And, as you might imagine, this didn’t sit well with some of us who remember his aggressively […]
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Rick Snyder, the man responsible for the Flint water crisis, lands at Harvard, and people are rightfully outraged
Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged #NoSnyderFellowship, A. Alfred Taubman, civility, clean water, conspiracy theories, fellowships, Flint, Flint River, Flint water crisis, FOIA, Harvard, incivility, Kaitlin Popielarz, Kennedy School, lame duck, lead, Legionnaires' disease, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sotheby's, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, water, WBUR 25 Comments
No Robocop for Detroit
Perhaps due in part to that Chrysler ad that captured everyone’s imagination during the Super Bowl , the city of Detroit is, once again, attracting national media attention. Today, there’s a feature in the Washington Post entitled, “With Detroit in dire straits, mayor invites big thinking.” Here’s a clip. …With no salvation in sight, Bing, […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Chazz Miller, Chrysler, Dave Bing, downsizing of Detroit, Egypt, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Martha Reeves, rightsizing of Detroit, Robin Boyle, Robocop, Rockefeller Foundation, Skillman Foundation, the Detroit situation, Tunisia, urban development, urban farming, urban homesteading, Urban Land Institute, urban planning 18 Comments