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Essay: Losing Clout - 4.12.10 - Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews
At least one other Michigan congressman could be defeated for re-election this year. The census results are expected to mean Michigan will lose another seat in Congress – the fifth we will have lost since the 1970s.

And the sad but sobering truth is that a decade from now, our most powerful and longest serving congressmen are all but certain to be gone, thanks not to the voters, but Father Time.

Dingell, after all, is 84 this year. Conyers and Kildee, 81. Sander Levin turns 79; Carl Levin, 76. They can’t be around forever.

We are facing a new economy and new challenges, and before long, will be relying on a crop of new leaders in Washington.
michigan  congress  dingell  levin  etc 
april 2010 by bkerr
DetroitWiki
The DetroitWiki Project is a volunteer-driven effort to collect information about Detroit that anybody can freely edit. The idea is to create a space where different things that make the City can live -- historical records, current topics, meeting plans, biographies. This is a place to make a page for something that wouldn't otherwise be online.
detroit  michigan  wiki  tfyl 
december 2009 by bkerr
Urbane Space (urbane_space) on Twitter
Urbane Space is a coworking space in Birmingham, MI for entrepreneurs. Limited membership available soon. Owned by @eric_urbane and Urbane apartments.
coworking  michigan 
december 2009 by bkerr
Essay: Now For the Hard Part - 11.2.09 - Jack Lessenberry
Civilization costs money, especially when times are tough. But the alternative will cost us all far more.
michigan  state  budget  tfyl 
november 2009 by bkerr
Detroit Free Press | Rough times get rougher, but we can be better for it
"Nothing stays the same through this kind of process. Hard choices have to be made. Survival can be a powerful motivator."
michigan  burndown 
june 2009 by bkerr
FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - The travails of Detroit
The old song: "Detroit is no longer the nation’s worst-case scenario, but on its leading edge."
detroit  michigan 
march 2009 by bkerr
MLive.com | What you can do to make a difference in southeastern Michigan's economy
FOR THE LOVE OF RUST AND SALT AND FRESH WATER AND THE SHORE AND THE GREAT EARTH ITSELF STOP DO NOT MOVE STOP REPEAT DO NOT MOVE END STOP. Tell the shamblers, "I'm from the Detroit region, where innovation and opportunity thrive."
michigan  difference  washtenaw-wow  ideation 
april 2008 by bkerr
Sweet Juniper! | It will rise from the ashes
The old Detroit Public Schools Book Depository: "Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  book  preservation  entropy  archive  big-here 
january 2008 by bkerr
Google Trends: wii, jesus
vielmetti sez: "Here, we note that Allendale is more on the Jesus side of things, and Farmington is more on the Wii side."
google  trends  michigan  wii  versus  jesus 
december 2007 by bkerr
Jack Lessenberry | Michigan's Marketplace - 11/15/07
"What had you expected? I asked. The answer was dark and gloomy factories. Acres of frozen rubble, punctuated by gunshots. Maybe Dr. Kevorkian scuttling off to put some poor sufferer out of his or her misery."
michigan  rustbelt  perspective 
november 2007 by bkerr
Michigan World Usability Day -- Thursday, November 8 in E. Lansing
"The focus for World Usability Day 2007 is healthcare." Sounds like the U-M pedometer people should converge.
michigan  lansing  usability  events 
november 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Buyouts offered at Free Press, Detroit News
Each time this happens, shit like this is always said: "The cuts should not affect news coverage, Ellwood said. 'Something we’re not going to change is our commitment to providing the right amount of coverage,' she said."
detroit  michigan  dirty-media  newspapers  journalism  reduction 
october 2007 by bkerr
Michigan’s Technology Business Calendar
"Are you hosting or sponsoring a 'technology' related event in Michigan? Great -- we want to here about it!"
michigan  tech  scare-quoted  biz  calendar  via:vielmetti 
september 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
"The avenue from Detroit to Pontiac is paved with 26 miles of history -- and it's celebrating its 200th anniversary."
detroit  pontiac  woodward  michigan  walking  urban  ranger  walk-away-from-the-sea  via:vielmetti 
august 2007 by bkerr
Michigan Innovators
Boring-ass podcast about innovative Michigan businesses, each post has a short promo piece podcast and a link to a Wikipedia page.
michigan  biz  tech  boring-ass  podcast  weblogs  via:cjuon 
august 2007 by bkerr
metromode | Density Vs. Transit
"Misconceptions from local leaders that Southeast Michigan isn't dense enough or wouldn't ride mass transit are either not looking at the numbers or missing the point."
density  versus  transit  transportation  economics  trains  planning  etc  michigan  via:vielmetti 
june 2007 by bkerr
Wikitravel | Image:Michigan.png
Evan, it's funny because it's true. Additionally, you're just jealous, the only handheld map I can think of for the irregular nonbiomorphic contours of your province would entail a WaterWorld-style nasty tattoo.
michigan  handheld  portable  mapping  wikitravel  wiki  fun  via:demon 
june 2007 by bkerr
Google Maps -- Art Supplies in the Ann Arbor Area
"A list of vendors in the Ann Arbor area that sell stuff artists want."
annarbor  michigan  art  supplies  $  google  maps  via:vielmetti 
june 2007 by bkerr
NEW ResourceConnect RSS Feeds
About friggin time! The UI for selecting categories is kind of broken, and the feeds omit the actual resource link(s).
new  annarbor  washtenaw  michigan  nonprofit  news  resource  etc  feeds 
may 2007 by bkerr
Michigan Python Users Group | reminder: meeting next Wednesday (and snacks!)
7PM Wednesday, May 16: "Stephan Diehl will talk about PyPy and Stackless Python. It's at the ITZone/SPARK Central, 330 E. Liberty (lower level) in downtown Ann Arbor."
annarbor  michigan  python  ug  events  pypy  stackless  brave-the-doors-of-it-zone 
may 2007 by bkerr
Common Monkeyflower | Model Y - Creating an alternative narrative
"Issue Media's proposition for Ypsilanti is a dedicated site and outreach tools, something much more focused and fleshed out than the Metromode Ypsilanti section, but, of course, not as large as Model D."
ypsilanti  washtenaw  michigan  immediast  smash-control-lines  smash-word-lines  local  journalism  collective  operation-rustbelt 
may 2007 by bkerr
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