Only 3 of 763 “sneak-and-peek” requests in 2008 involved terrorism
Remember back when we were called unpatriotic fucks for suggesting that Bush’s Patriot Act ran contrary to the Bill of Rights? Remember how we said that once we gave the government warrantless access...
View ArticleWhat it’s really like in Michigan’s prisons
Last night, I reprinted a letter sent by a Michigan school Superintendent to our Governor, asking that his school be converted over to a prison. Given that we fund corrections better than we do...
View ArticleDepot Town’s Strain of the Day
When I friended Ypsi’s “Depot Town” on Facebook a few days ago, I wasn’t aware that I was, in fact, friending Depot Town’s new medical marijuana dispensary. So, now, I guess, I’m going to be receiving...
View ArticleA federal drug bust at Emmet and Hamilton?
The following note was left last night in an open thread by a reader who goes by the name Watching Laughing. I thought that I’d move it up here to the front page in hopes that someone in city...
View ArticlePatricia Griffin on the business challenges and entrepreneurial opportunities...
About a dozen years ago now, I had an opportunity to work on a project with a young, precocious engineering undergrad at the University of Michigan by the name of Patricia Griffin. Our lives have taken...
View ArticleOn once making eye contact with Sherman Hemsley, or some other short,...
When I heard yesterday that Sherman Hemsley had died at the age of 74, I was reminded of an afternoon several years ago in Ann Arbor spent staring over a beer at a man I believed to the iconic...
View ArticleYpsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Charlie Slick
I don’t know how to break this to you, so I’ll just come right out and say it… It looks as though beloved local pop idol Charlie Slick will soon be joining the ranks of those leaving our community....
View ArticleUnconstitutional, scientifically unsound, fiscally irresponsible,...
In what seems like a pretty clear attempt to appease the far right and drive more of Michigan’s poor from the public assistance rolls, Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation on the day after Christmas...
View ArticlePaul Saginaw reminisces about his uncle “Chickie” the bookie, Stef Chura...
Any lingering doubts that I might have had about this past weekend’s show faded away five minutes before we went live, when local historian James Mann barged into the AM 1700 studio demanding that I...
View ArticleBestselling author Shaka Senghor on redemption and atonement, the making of...
On this Saturday’s show, we’ll be joined by Shaka Senghor, the author of the New York Times bestseller Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison. A recent Detroit-based...
View ArticleSurprising absolutely no one, Michigan’s testing of welfare recipients for...
I posted the following on December 28, 2014, in a post titled “Unconstitutional, scientifically unsound, fiscally irresponsible, suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients comes to Michigan”....
View ArticleElected leaders and civil rights organizers join Sheriff Clayton to discuss...
This evening I attended the Unity Town Hall at Eastern Michigan Union, during which Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Black Lives Matter Organizer Myles McGuire, Wahstenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton,...
View ArticleMelvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti
Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with...
View ArticleYpsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Merritt Bankes
What follows is our official exit interview with Merritt Bankes, who just recently left Ypsilanti, headed for Tecumseh. MARK: Can you please state your full name for the record? MERRITT: Merritt...
View ArticleMAGA Jonestown
Last week, as the number of COVID-19 deaths started to climb across the United States, Donald Trump, always the salesman, felt the need to share a little good news. And, as he’d already been...
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