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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Dispatches from the Rust Belt

Los Angeles Trip: In the Popular Imagination

It’s always interesting to trace the origins of our first imagined memories of unfamiliar places. Stereotypes abound– often unfortunate and

US Steel’s closure of its two Downriver plants raise the question of the future of the polluted areas around the x217 and x219 ZIP codes.

Happy February. It is Black History Month! It’s also Leap Year, which means we have the opportunity to enjoy 3.6%

Interesting things are happening beyond the confines of Detroit’s parking lots. Here’s to looking at them in 2020.

Wrapping up this year, I figured I’d make a list of all of the books I read in both fiction

At the risk of seeming like all I do is think about parking lots and protected bike lanes (which, admittedly,

I just wrapped up a few days in Tampa for APTA’s Transit Initiatives workshop. The mini-conference, produced by the DC-based

It was my fourth Noel Night, an annual happening in Midtown Detroit. In spite of a heavy police presence– probably

It’s easy to go from the decaying infrastructure of a city like Detroit to a cleaner, more prosperous city like

Early on the morning of July 16th, 1945, in the middle of an uninhabited desert halfway between the remote cities