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Shutting Down Trade With Our Largest Trade Partner To Own The Libs

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alberta, ambassador bridge, big truck, black lives matter, canadian truckers, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, erin o'toole, gordie howe bridge, infrastructure, justin trudeau, land of the rising timbit, matty moroun, semi, south asian, tractor-trailer, truck, trucks, US-Canada border, US-Canadian Border, war on cars, western alienation, wexit, windsor, windsor-detroit border

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 Love Burning Brighter Than The Gas Flares Of Zug Island

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 48216, 48217, 48219, air pollution, ambassador bridge, boynton, crossing us canada border, delray, delray detroit, engagement, engagement photos, gordie howe, gordie howe international bridge, marathon oil, marathon petroleum, marathon refinery, matty moroun, moroun, most polluted zip codes in michigan, Nat Zorach, noah balanda, oakwood heights, river rouge, rouge river, southwest detroit, us canada border, us canadian border, US Steel, water pollution, who is gordie howe, windsor, Zug Island, zug island hum, zug island iced tea

As many of you know, or don’t, I got engaged in September! Yes, folks– if someone thinks they can put

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MDOT: Rebrand And Replace. Some Ideas From The MAP Conference.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aicp, ambassador bridge, american planning association, auto industry, automotive, car culture, cars, chrysler, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, EGLE, f150 super duty state of mind, Ford, ford motor company, fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuels, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, highways, land of the rising f150 super duty, mami, MAP, matty moroun, MDEQ, mdot, MEDC, MEGA tax breaks, michigan, michigan association of planning, mike duggan, moroun, public transit, rick snyder, road, stellantis, transit, vehicle miles traveled, vmt, vmt reduction, wendy rampson

Nat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.

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Biden’s Other Border Crisis: The US Canadian Border

October 12, 2021October 13, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, covid, COVID19, detroit river, detroit-windsor trade, joe biden, justin trudeau, matty moroun, moroun's folly, ontario, the perfidy of the moroun family, trade policy, us trade policy, US-Canadian Border, windsor, Windsor-Detroit Tunnel

The US-Canadian border remains closed– and it’s no longer really clear why.

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Morning Coffee, Detroit Traffic: The Post-COVID Craze Is About To Be Wild

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bicycle safety, bike safety, car culture, cars, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, Detroit, detroit police, detroit river, detroit traffic, dodge challenger, dodge charger, dodge durango, driving, gratiot, hi-riser, infrastructure, jeep, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, nonmotorized infrastructure, pedestrian safety, riverfront park, traffic violence, west riverfront park, why do people always rev their dodge charger

Yesterday, Detroit was a whole traffic jam, as an increasingly vaccinated cross-section of, well, everyone, emerged from the cocoons of Michigan winter and lockdowns.

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100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air quality, air quality index, ambassador bridge, aqi, car inspections, car ownership, carbon, carbon footprint, cars, climate change, conservation, consumption, energy waste reduction, exxonmobil, garbage, incinerator, mobility justice, mobility poverty, MPSC, municipal solid waste, pollution, recycling, recycling bin, refuse, Regulation, resources, saudi aramco, single-stream recycling, solid waste, transportation justice, transportation poverty, trash, vehicles, waste

LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the

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Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, BSEED, building department, building inspections, building inspector, corktown, dan gilbert, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, economic development, enforcement, gordie howe, gordie howe international bridge, green dot stables, logistics, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Mike Ilitch, moroun, northern border transit, rosa parks blvd., southwest detroit, trucking, UST properties, UST Properties of Michigan, ust properties of michigan llc, Vacancy, warren, west side industrial

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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