The sixth week in the program and it’s starting to get weird. Weird in a good way. When I go out and make my “anti-idling pitch” to people I always make sure to tell them I am from Southwest Detroit. That I am no stranger to the community and that I am really working for …
This article is befitting since I am working with a program with high schoolers and we are in a couple of charter schools. There was some overlap in the schools we work at and that were listed in the article so it hit close to home. I kinda found the article on a wim but …
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/taking-back-detroit/see-detroit.html This was one of the first articles that I came across in my search of interesting articles on Detroit. I was immediately wary of the title, “Tough, Cheap, and Real…. Detroit is cool again.” Upon clicking the link, I became prepared to read a banal article on how Detroit is making a recovery and …
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/2016/03/10/last-detroit-woman-gets-running-water-years/81586390/ The title of my post is the title of the article that I read before I finally got started getting more involved with my internship. Fayette Coleman, a black, 66 year old woman hadn’t had running water for 3 years. I was appalled by the fact that this woman, this human being, had to …
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/ A couple weeks ago I was ranting to Sam and Will about how GMOs are amazing and have already done so much good for the world yet there was far from a consensus on their viability and that many still resorted to scare tactics to make people avoid eating them. Admittedly I’d never really done …
http://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/news-release/areaemployment_detroit.htm The article I chose to write is about job growth and development in the Detroit. Since I am a economics major, this is the type of statistical analysis that really interest me. This article was published by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics and is about where the Job growth is in the city. …
This article presents the fact that many neighborhoods in Detroit have not experienced or even had the opportunity to partake in the recent development in many other neighborhoods, like Downtown, Midtown, and Corktown. http://michiganradio.org/post/detroit-neighborhoods-not-part-citys-resurgence#stream/0 One of the most prominent topics of conversation in the city right now is that of gentrification. What development is “good” and how …
I am a student at the University of Michigan, but first I am from Detroit. So when I see things like this, I get to thinking. How much is this really going to help the people they are researching directly? DCBRP’s work is hands on in the community and gets us working here directly. But when …
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2016/06/29/gilbert-offers-big-vision-downtown/86540422/ The article I read was about how Dan Gilbert (the richest guy in Detroit who practically owns all of downtown) wants automobile companies to invest more money into the tech industry in Detroit. He casually noted that it would cost GM about $1 billion to build a state-of-the-art tech facility to attract more young, …
Before going any further check out this article on National Geographic about the current resurgence of Detroit. Granted, there is no focus on food access or the food system so this isn’t explicitly about my placement. More so it talks about current growth in the city from a variety of angles. I wanted to read an …
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