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Dispatch from Detroit: Turn Back on the Power
Last week, my good friend Pastor Ray Anderson of the House of Help Community Center in hard-hit northwest Detroit called me with some bad news:
Dispatch from Detroit: Phones in the Hands of the Homeless
It’s difficult for me to stomach the news that Facebook is building a ‘Facebookville’ futuristic city in California. Why?
This Year, Let’s Not Let Detroit Shut Off the Water
As the ground thaws, a now-familiar scene is beginning to re-enact itself on the streets of Detroit’s poorest neighborhoods. Those despised
Dispatch from Detroit: Life After Facebook
Two months ago, I walked out of the Facebook factory. I was tired of spending countless hours every day checking notifications. I had become
Come to the NYC Debut of A Dangerous Game!
A Dangerous Game Director Anthony Baxter finds himself on a journey to global hot spots where Donald Trump and other rapacious developers – often
Ode to the Social Gadfly
This one is dedicated to all those annoying gadflies out there. You know who you are. You’re speaking inconvenient or uncomfortable or
Dispatch from Detroit: Runaway Water Rates And the Case for Nonpayment
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Dispatch from Detroit: I’m Quitting Facebook
tl;dr version: I’m shutting down my Facebook profile. If you don’t care why and just want to know where I’m going instead, jump down to the
Dispatch from Detroit: Debt-roit
Croatia, a small Mediterranean country of 4.4 million, just did an amazing thing: it wiped clean the debts of its 60,000 poorest citizens. Their
How a Detroit Homestead Act Could Fix the Motor City’s Housing and Revenue Crises
” … each family shall have a plot of not more than (40) acres of tillable ground… in the possession of which land the military authorities will