Essay: Losing Clout - 4.12.10 - Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews
april 2010 by bkerr
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
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.
april 2010 by bkerr
DetroitWiki
december 2009 by bkerr
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
december 2009 by bkerr
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
november 2009 by bkerr
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
june 2009 by bkerr
"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
march 2009 by bkerr
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
april 2008 by bkerr
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
january 2008 by bkerr
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
december 2007 by bkerr
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
november 2007 by bkerr
"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
november 2007 by bkerr
"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
october 2007 by bkerr
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
Larry Kestenbaum | Presidential primary follies
october 2007 by bkerr
"We Michiganders have sure gotten ourselves into a pickle again."
michigan
politics
2008
presidential
primary
compound
fuckup
stick-around-michigan
october 2007 by bkerr
Michigan’s Technology Business Calendar
september 2007 by bkerr
"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
Michigan State University Dept. of Entomology | Some Spiders
september 2007 by bkerr
"All cobwebs are of spider origin."
michigan
spiders
via:vielmetti
september 2007 by bkerr
Freep | Walking the whole way up Woodward
august 2007 by bkerr
"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
august 2007 by bkerr
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
june 2007 by bkerr
"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
june 2007 by bkerr
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
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wiki
fun
via:demon
june 2007 by bkerr
Michigan Python Users Group | reminder: meeting next Wednesday (and snacks!)
may 2007 by bkerr
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
may 2007 by bkerr
"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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