Unfortunately my blog posts have been a little dry lately because I’ve been pretty busy at work, but that’s good because I have learnt a whole heck of a lot. I think an important thing this job taught me about policy is that you shouldn’t always be interested in JUST the “sexy” political topics. By […]
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What started as a part time gig designing fliers has transformed into my full time creative design job at GRDC because my research project is done. Last week I created two documents “Suspicious Vehicle Guide” and “Suspicious Person Guide,” to help residents better report suspicious activity. Now it might not look like much, but I
Last week I had a lot of trouble getting in contact with the people I need to be interviewing. I went back down to Earthworks Farm to talk to Marilyn because there was an issue with her office phone. We set up an interview, and on Friday I went down and hung out with the
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This is written more for the future spawn of CBRF students; my predecessors rather than the snots I’m working with now (JK I love you guys). This past week, I got next to 0 research work done for the Go Green Challenge. While my mentor, Emile, was out on vacation, I did a lot of
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I walked into work this past Friday to find a surprise. It turned out there was an event taking place that night that I had no idea about. I found out about it in my first staff meeting (that’s right getting official) as the person in charge of DHDC said “So as I’m sure you all know … is
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Wellllllll, as you all know by now (because you read all my post) our first community meeting is this Friday! We have been preparing for the meeting a lot and one of our main methods of getting the word out was door to door. Being a member of the boy scouts I have done many
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On Friday I attended a Detroit City Council candidate forum with my sponsor and a few of our members. The candidate forum was out at w.8 mile and telegraph, so I was pretty excited to get to see some other parts of Detroit. We were at the candidate forum to present on our Good Food
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Note: This was originally written on July 3rd Today went by so quickly, probably because I didn’t really do any research J My supervisor has wanted to revamp these guides that help citizens report suspicious activity. The handouts mention things both obvious (ex. sex or color of car) and not so obvious (ex. accent or
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Attention: I advise everyone to come and support the Eastside Farmers Market on Mac and Alter Road. It is a phenomenal market where you can buy a multitude of Michigan grown and produced goods. Everything from fruits and vegetables to backed goods and all natural lemonade (yum). So come on out an support Michigan growers/producers.
A huge part of my research this summer revolves around surveys. One of the two surveys we use is a survey of local food resources, which is the scientific term for a grocery store. Just before the holiday, I went with a member of the community, a social worker named Jackie (who received her master’s
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