What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan

Where’s Our Rosa Parks Statue?

A couple of weeks ago there was news out of Montgomery, Alabama that they unveiled a new statue of none other than civil rights activist and icon Rosa Parks. It didn’t stop south of the Mason-Dixon Line. For three days on the Milwaukee bus system, they reserved a spot for Parks — along with a note and a rose — so that riders today remember her. It’s a pair of great …

This Stevie Wonder Performance From Another Impeachment Era Is Timeless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iXGtQdSc4g I was looking at the news catching up on what's happening in the world. The ongoing and spiritually exhausting presidential drama. Attacks in Syria, happening immediately after we stepped aside. Much, much more. And then I found this. It's a performance from Motown artist and Michigan native Stevie Wonder in what seems to be …

Could Tiny Houses Be One Of The Big Ideas To Truly Turn Around Detroit?

If you look at the headlines around Detroit’s turnaround, it’s often about megaprojects, large corporations, giant incentives and millions of dollars of demolition. Here’s the reality. Most of the things getting built right now, as far as residential, are for the very rich. The median home value in Michigan is about $153,900; in posh Oakland County, $251,400. Yet what we …

Fix This Ish: The QLINE

Although not the greatest of problems for our metropolis, it's among the most maddening because it didn't have to be this way. It's a series of human errors that didn't have to be made. After $187 million+ poured in from foundations, corporations and a bit from the Federal government, The QLINE could (in theory) be a shining beacon of what transit could be, even if it is …

Stop Smashing The Windows At The Coney Islands

Today in the news was the stories of scuffles at both of the famous American and Lafayette coney islands downtown. Apparently, there are yahoos who think it's just fine to break the glass on the windows there and insult the employees regularly. At Lafayette, someone used a boxcutter to bust the glass. It took 30 minutes for police to arrive at the downtown establishment. …