Detroit: Mocked City by: David Greany   Detroit is a landscape littered with abandoned and dilapidated buildings which have little chance of attracting future tenants. These empty shells stand in a city that has been bleeding residents since the early 1950’s. Detroit has been in a perpetual state of decline for the past five decades, and [...]

Wired has created a new blog ”online community” in light of the Haiti earthquake. It’s called Haiti Rewired. On the “About” page, Evan Hansen writes: We believe that better answers to the difficult questions could be created through the collaboration of technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others. Our writers and editors can aggregate [...]

The big legal news today is that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the courts cannot ban large corporations from engaging in political advocacy. What this means, as I understand it, is that there’s no stopping a big corporation from spending a lot of money or producing a lot of ads for [...]

Well it’s happened. Finally. The New York Times is finally going to charge online readers: Starting in early 2011, visitors toNYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site [...]

The recent passage of smoking bans in Michigan workplaces and on the University of Michigan campus heralds a new age for smokers in Ann Arbor.

While aid floods into Haiti in the wake of the earthquake, the real problem is actually rebuilding the country. There’s a difference between an earthquake happening in Port-Au Prince and one happening in a the major city of another country which has a much more stable government and social services infrastructure in place. The truth [...]