Happy Birthday, Ambassador Bridge!
The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark–
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Bike The Bridge: Fleeting Dreams of International Bike Transit
On Sunday, for the first and possibly the last time, I rode my bike across the Detroit River on the
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Shutting Down Trade With Our Largest Trade Partner To Own The Libs
Though mostly vaccinated, Canadian truckers have been protesting a new vaccine mandate that affects cross-border truckers. The protests, which have clogged the Canadian capital for weeks, have now come to Windsor, where they are blocking the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge. And for what?
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A Common-Sense Rezoning Hits Billionaire Resistance
The billionaire Moroun family’s trucking empire, which also owns the Ambassador Bridge, is pushing for a controversial zoning measure that would allow them to develop a trucking depot in Southwest Detroit. Residents do not favor the effort, and the city has declined to enforce its own ordinances to stop them from starting development. (Guest piece by Dion Thompson-Davoli).
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Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?
The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?
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Will Municipalized Utilities Actually Work Better?
A movement for public power has grown over the past several years, especially in Michigan, where advocates want more accountability from the state’s investor-owned utilities. As our experience in Lansing highlights, local and municipal is certainly more accountable, but not unequivocally better.
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Give Me Something To Work With, DTE!
DTE Energy truly offers the worst of both worlds– high prices and little to show for it in terms of reliability, energy efficiency, or clean energy.
Read MoreHappy New Year! Wrapping up 2024.
A wrap-up of another year, the last half of which saw me writing a historically limited amount, which is a
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Coming To Detroit for the NFL Draft? Here’s What You Need To Know.
If you’re in Detroit for the 2024 NFL Draft, make sure you actually explore outside downtown. There’s plenty more to do, plenty to see, and much good food to be et [sic].
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City of Detroit: Just Kidding, We Do Have A Secret MOU With The Ilitches and Morouns.
The City of Detroit responded to a long-outstanding FOIA request and conceded that, yes, they do have a secret memorandum of understanding with a couple of the city’s most delinquent landowners. It’s not surprising. It’s just obnoxious that they told me the exact opposite before.
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