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Countdown to 2018 Midterms Begins: 8 Rust Belt Congressional Races Already Starting to Foreshadow 2020

With Election Day 2017 safely behind us, the race to the 2018 Midterm Elections has officially begun. And with Donald Trump sitting in the White House ...

William Rickman2017-12-11T11:11:51-05:00November 28, 2017|
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Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt

As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.

William Rickman2023-04-01T09:06:13-04:00November 22, 2017|
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Big Ag vs. Lake Erie: How Ohio’s Biggest Industry Threatens Its Greatest Resource

In late September, temperatures in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan eclipsed 90 degrees for six straight days.

William Rickman2018-01-30T11:05:54-05:00November 21, 2017|
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White Lady Problems: On Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ and the Portrayal of ‘Rich, Lily White’ Shaker Heights, OH

By Lynda Montgomery The publication of Celeste Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, has once again brought the city of [...]

William Rickman2017-12-13T11:00:49-05:00November 16, 2017|
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A Pair of Dominion Pipelines in Appalachia Are Uniting a Coalition of Environmental Activists That Crosses Racial, Economic, and Geographic Lines

"While there are no Neo-Nazis in the streets of Charlottesville today, white supremacy is very much at work in the offices of Dominion Energy. Money rules, African Americans suffer. It is an old story of power and heartlessness."

William Rickman2017-11-30T05:54:52-05:00November 14, 2017|
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Safe In Buffalo, NY, Syrian Refugees Are Still Looking For Peace

Fatima Darwish El Nashef needed air, so she left her apartment and strolled through the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. She had been feeling like a zombie, adjusting to a new home while constantly thinking about the hell she had left behind in Syria.

William Rickman2017-11-28T08:04:50-05:00November 9, 2017|
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As Ohio Goes: One Year Removed From Election Day 2016, Voters From The Ultimate Bellwether State Reflect On A Divided Nation

By Aaron Gettinger Since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide election victory of 1964, no candidate for U.S. president has won the White [...]

William Rickman2017-12-04T14:58:09-05:00November 7, 2017|
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America’s History Of Racial Violence Is Not Just A Southern Issue. The Midwest Needs To Come To Terms, Too.

On June 1, 1893, two local white women, a Mrs. Dill and a Mrs. William Vest, had reported that they were raped by an African-American man. Bands of white men roamed through the streets and fields, intending to lynch the perpetrator.

Jonathan Foiles2018-10-09T15:15:34-04:00November 2, 2017|
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Turns Out Kid Rock’s Senate Run Was A Prank. But The Divisions It Exposed Between Detroit And Its Surrounding Suburbs Are No Joke.

By 5:30 p.m. on September 12, Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s main downtown boulevard, had transformed into the latest battleground of America’s seething culture wars.

William Rickman2018-01-30T11:07:05-05:00October 26, 2017|
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Eminent Domain, Ruined Farmland, Crony Capitalism: Racine County Braces For Foxconn

Apple Holler is an 80-acre pick-your-own orchard destination just off of Interstate 94 in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, about midpoint on the main highway connecting Milwaukee and Chicago’s northern suburbs.

William Rickman2018-01-30T11:07:56-05:00October 24, 2017|
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More cops, More problems: In Cleveland, both mayoral candidates are dangerously misguided on the solution to violent crime

Tomorrow at noon, Clevelanders will settle in for the lone mayoral debate in what has proven to be a contentious election season. There are a number of major issues at stake.

William Rickman2017-11-08T23:51:55-05:00October 18, 2017|
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Introduction To Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology

This book is an extension of our friendship; an extension of our ongoing work. To start, we are longtime friends — since third grade. We have known each other for decades. In fact, our first collaborative activist effort was in sixth grade.

William Rickman2017-10-31T14:22:59-04:00October 17, 2017|
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