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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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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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Handbuilt: Gratitude and Resilience In The Strangest Year On Record

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american history, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, culture, Detroit, historiography, history, hubbard farms, mexicantown, native and indigenous peoples, southwest detroit, thanksgiving, thanksgiving dinner, windsor

LAST NIGHT, MY PARTNER AND I SAT AT THE DINING TABLE THAT CAME INCLUDED WITH OUR 1895 HOUSE in Southwest

YouLam No. 1 – Jan. 28, 2020 Handbuilt News Digest

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coronavirus, healthcare, hudson yards, news, socialized medicine, thunder bay, Toronto, windsor, wuhan coronavirus, youlam

Exciting things are afoot around this globe, as I’m sure you well know, dear reader. This series will be a

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Happy Birthday, Ambassador Bridge!

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, border crossing, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, international trade, matassa, matty moroun, windsor

The Ambassador Bridge, or, Moroun’s Folly, as I call her, is 90 years young today. We commemorate this iconic landmark–

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Canada Trip I – Via Rail to Toronto

September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 401 corridor, american university, antiservice, kogod school of business, montreal, ontario, southwestern ontario, Toronto, via rail, windsor

I’m in Montreal and Toronto this week for a program through Kogod. The topic is marketing in a cross-cultural setting,

There Is No Public Transit Across One Of The Busiest Border Crossings In The World And That’s Kind Of Problematic

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, matty moroun, michigan, ontario, public transit, regional transit, trade, transit, transit windsor, US-Canada border, via rail, windsor

The corner of Wyandotte Avenue West and Patricia Road in the west end of Windsor, Ontario, is an odd nexus,

Tschö, Detroit!

October 31, 2017October 23, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, Detroit, germany, mobility, multi-modal transportation, nordrhein-westfalen, public transit, Toronto, transatlantic exchange, transit, transportation, windsor

Today I’m headed off on a multi-modal transit odyssey that will eventually land me in the Ruhrgebiet, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, as

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Bike The Bridge: Fleeting Dreams of International Bike Transit

October 24, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bike rides, bikeability, bikes, caesar's windsor, cbp, cbsa, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, detroit river, international trade, international transit, matty moroun, transit, transit windsor, walkability, windsor

On Sunday, for the first and possibly the last time, I rode my bike across the Detroit River on the

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Infrastructure Would Be Nice

June 22, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike infrastructure, cycling infrastructure, Detroit, drew dilkens, highway spending, highways, ontario, walkability, windsor

Last night, in hono(u)r of the solstice, I made a pilgrimage to the Land of the Rising Maple Leaf for