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The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

Public Health

“It Is What It Is”: With Omicron Rampant, Will Trump Country Notice?

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 5g chips, anti-vax, anti-vaxxers, baby-eating democrats, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, Donald Trump, friedman unit, greg gianforte, is there lizard DNA in the vaccine, lizard DNA, macomb county, omicron, omicron variant, pandemic, qanon, rural, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, rural icu beds, sean hannity, trump, trump voters, tucker carlson

The novel coronavirus hit cities hard at the beginning of the pandemic. But in 2021, it is disproportionately killing rural Americans– closely along party lines. Will the rapid spread of the novel omicron variant make this trend even worse?

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Business & Economics Detroit Windsor Canada

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.

Art & Design Culture & Language Lifestyle

Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments art galleries, art gallery, art installation, art installations, artist residencies, artist residency, artwork, asia hamilton, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, creative, Detroit, detroit artists, detroit west side, erin gold, erin gold artist, fenkell, gender, gender pay disparity, glass ceiling, grand river, judy chicago, laura earle, miriam schapiro, norwest gallery of art, pandemic, west side, womanhouse, women, womxn house

Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

COVID Didn’t Close Roads. Why Is So Much Transit Still Shut Down?

May 13, 2021May 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments covid, COVID and transit, COVID safety and transit, COVID19, covid19 diaries, DC, dc metro, is transit safe during COVID, public health, transit, transit safety, washington, Washington DC, wmata

Transit in DC was good! Not great, but good! Buses? A+. Metro? Well, it was a mixed bag.

Finance Urban Planning Finance

Short Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bed bath beyond, big short, COVID19, derivatives, finance, gamestop, GME, hedge funds, john maynard keynes, macy's, NASDAQ, NYSE, options, reddit, retail apocalypse, retail investors, ridiculous, S&P500, short, short interest, short squeeze, short-selling, speculation, steam, stock market, stock trading, stonks, Tesla

GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.

Culture & Language Public Art

Unto The Flame: Managing A Literal Dumpster Fire

January 12, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020, andy didorosi, arsenal of clean, basecamp, basecamp software, coding, coronavirus, COVID19, detroit bus company, dumpster fire, dumpsterfire, gaming, hey email, jair bolsonaro, language, linguistics, software, translation, winter

The end of 2020 (and my second-to-last-ever quarter in school) provided a good opportunity to think about all of the awful things we wanted to send off into the fire– literally.

Policy Poverty Utilities

Facing A Crisis of COVID, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments CARES, covid, COVID19, energy audits, energy efficiency, energy insecurity, energy poverty, eviction defense, eviction diversion, evictions, housing insecurity, legal aid, maureen taylor, michigan, michigan welfare rights organization, Poverty, PUA, public utilities, UCHC, united community housing coalition, utility, utility bills, utility policy, weatherization

COVID19 is exposing a particularly ugly nexus between energy insecurity and housing insecurity, referred to in a few separate presentations at a recent workgroup meeting of the Michigan Public Service Commission.

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