2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales
COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.
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Nice To See You Again: DPD Back in Full Force
Detroit protests have been largely quiet since June. This changed last night when protesters downtown, challenging the new federal law enforcement intervention in Detroit being championed by Mike Duggan, Police Chief James Craig, and US Attorney General William Barr, were met with batons, pepper spray, and tear gas.
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Netflix’s ‘Tread’ Is A Good Indictment Of Municipal Bureaucracy
Marvin John Heemeyer bulldozed a few buildings before shooting himself dead after a years-long dispute with a municipal government. While an extreme example, it’s a credible indictment of city governments that embrace inflexible paths to things like code compliance.
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Blood on the Louis Vuitton: Is Looting In Chicago A Referendum On The Zeitgeist?
As Chicago struggles with an epidemic of gun violence, one Gold Coast resident is worried that a looting spree last night on the Magnificent Mile will be used as a pretext for violent crackdowns on the Black Lives Matter movement. This is clearly unrelated to Black Lives Matter. But are not both the looting and the civil rights movement loud referenda on the current state of class relations in America?
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Green building is increasingly focusing less on hi-tech lightbulbs alone and more on a holistic building that is not only
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DPD: “There could be no possible justification” to send DHS officers to Detroit
The Detroit Police Department has released a statement categorically distancing itself from the threat of federal intervention in ongoing, local protests.
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A Tale Of Two Protests
A screaming couple brandished guns at St. Louis protesters walking past their mansion, while in Detroit, a bootstrapped protest roused a multiethnic, LGBTx crowd to bike around Southwest Detroit.
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Black Guns Matter: Firearm Culture and the Protest Movement
Guns in protest movements have a long, colorful history. Do they have a place in the modern movement against police brutality and militarization? Nat speaks with Ontario-based firearms enthusiast and scholar AJ Somerset.
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Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy
Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?
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No Tear Gas at Sixth Night of Protests in Detroit; Journalists Again Assaulted
While last night’s protest ended relatively peacefully, with no tear gas or rubber bullets, assaults of journalists continued in a troubling trend.
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