The Ilitch Crusade Continues: When Is Enough Enough?
The latest Ilitch demolition has us all scratching our heads and wondering when we will deserve a better city– for buildings, for historic preservation, and, of course, for Detroiters.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
World War X: Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Peculiar 24th Letter
Is it that big a deal to rename a multi-billion dollar brand? Most experts say yes. Why’s he doing it, then? It probably goes beyond a brief history of the use of the letter ‘x’ in brand development. But why not learn about this weird letter?
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City of Detroit: “You’re good– if your last name is Moroun or Ilitch.”
A months-long saga to try and clean up a lot being used for long-term storage of inoperable vehicles finally gets a response from a persnickety FOIA coordinator, who points out that, well, we don’t care about the problems here, because it’s not a residential neighborhood.
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Vape eWaste Recycling: Showing The Business Math
The question I’ve gotten a lot in the process of planning this eWaste recycling program is, of course, “how much
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Dogs & Climate Change: Minding The Safety Of Our Fur Children
I bark, you bark, we all bark for dog parks– and other places canines and humans alike can go to stay cool, even on the hottest days. Other tips for keeping our furry friends happy in extreme heat.
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Vape Recycling: Handbuilt Lobbies State Senators To Regulate eWaste
Michiganders throw out hundreds of thousands of vapes each year, if not more. This is an environmental disaster, but one we can mitigate with better eWaste recycling.
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What If Every Street Project Required Rightsizing And Traffic Calming?
Detroit’s Department of Public Works spends a lot of time repaving streets. It doesn’t spend much time thinking about what might make those streets safer.
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Energy Burden: The Elephant in the Electrification Room
Dr. Destenie Nock and Shuchen Cong presented from Carnegie Mellon University on a new approach they are taking to assess energy burden in communities around the United States. It is important analysis that will help inform how public service commissions develop better energy efficiency policy for utilities, and how utilities assess the needs of their most vulnerable customers.
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It’s Time To Talk About Speed. No, Not The Adderall Shortage.
A society with 40,000 deaths each year from traffic violence can’t claim to be virtuous, progressive, or innovative– at least, not when we have plenty of proven solutions to reduce the rates of traffic fatalities.
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Consolidating Inefficient Private Transit Systems
Large employers like hospitals, universities, and big corporations often contract with private transit operators to ferry their employees around, usually between parking lots and office buildings or other facilities. Would there be a resulting economy of scale if these services were consolidated into, say, the transit operations of a public agency?
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