Drew Dilkens: “We Must Preserve Single Family Zoning At All Costs!”
Windsor, Ontario is fighting the federal government’s housing plan in order to “protect the character of the neighborhood.”
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Government
Hubbard Farms Signs On To Lawsuit Against Zug Island Concrete Plant
When news broke last fall that Governor Whitmer’s administration had cherry-picked air quality data to justify the granting of a
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Things To Look Out For In The New Year of 2024
eBikes, YIMBY, what’s left of the Republican Party, and more.
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Just In Time For Hanukkah, The War in Gaza Plumbs Hideous New Depths.
Netanyahu’s Likud government, in citing Islamic scripture before bombing Muslim civilians, demonstrates that he has little understanding of Islam, but also that he has blatant contempt for the Jewish faith.
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Water: New Orleans’ Next Environmental Catastrophe.
Hardly a week goes by these days without some sort of disastrous news about climate change, whether domestic or abroad,
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MDOT: “An I-375 With Fewer Than Ten Lanes Would Take Away People’s Right To Get Around”
Our favorite road engineering agency is finally again talking about replacing the useless stretch of interstate that is I-375. Unfortunately, the plans just keep getting worse and worse.
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Southeast Michigan Dreams of Public Power
Municipalization of public utilities, transportation systems, and distribution systems for gas and electricity was all the rage about a century ago. Is it time to bring it back into vogue? A symposium looked at this question.
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Drivers: Please Don’t Honk At Cyclists. Ever.
Car horns are dangerously loud, and dangerously loud sounds are not only deleterious to health, they’re also scary for cyclists– who are already occupying a precarious position on the streets of American cities.
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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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The GOP Released Their Policy Blueprint For 2025. It’s A Mess.
The Republican Party has drafted its “policy” plans for 2025, when they at this point seem unlikely to be able to retake the White House. While there are some valuable points in critiquing the structure of the federal regulatory apparatus, most of the over-arching objectives include dismantling federal agencies and applying theocratic and corporatist dogma to American public policy.
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