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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-05-22T21:59:04-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of May 16-22, 2016

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The Company Is Your Family

2016-05-19T09:24:41-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

I’m from this little town, raised here all my life. I’m disabled right now, but I worked at a refractory plant for almost thirty-eight years. I used to run the forklift and load and unload trucks. Stopped in 2006.

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Homecoming Of A Clevelander In Exile

2016-05-18T09:07:32-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Essays|

I’ve finally returned home to Cleveland after a ten-year absence. While away, first at college and then for a drawn-out period of military service, I kept up on Cleveland happenings ...

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Michigan Supplies Teachers For Schools Across The Nation But What About Its Own Needs?

2016-05-17T12:00:21-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue, Features, Politics and Urbanism|

Andrea Parker was among the first job seekers to arrive at Michigan State University’s Teacher and Administrator Recruitment Fair on April 12.

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Some Surprising Numbers From Cleveland

2016-05-12T15:49:24-04:00By Anne Trubek|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

There were fewer people living in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood in 2013 than there were in 2000. That is one of many surprising facts in The Cleveland Foundation's The Pulse: A Look at Greater Cleveland by the Numbers.

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David Foster Wallace, Religion, And The Midwest

2016-05-14T12:52:43-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue, Reading The Midwest by Mark Athitakis, Regulars|

At the end of the film The End of the Tour, journalist David Lipsky (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and novelist David Foster Wallace (played by Jason Segel) return to where they first met, in Wallace’s bland house in Bloomington, Illinois.

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Call for Submissions: Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook

2016-05-11T13:19:19-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit|

Detroiters need to get to know their neighbors better. Wait -- maybe that should be, Detroiters should get to know their neighborhoods better.

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A Maddening Quest For Calm And Spring Wildflowers

2019-05-24T09:46:12-04:00By Matt Stansberry|Covers, Current Issue, North Coast Biodiversity, Regulars|

I became obsessed with wildflowers last spring. One April morning I had been slumped on my couch with my laptop, and suddenly panicked as if I was on a plane falling out of the sky.

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The Blob Isn’t Toxic, but the Politics Are: The Story Behind Lake Erie’s Mass of Sediment

2016-05-11T09:43:11-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cleveland, Current Issue|

If you believe the sensational headlines, Cleveland has a “toxic blob,” a silent menace that sits just nine miles off the coast of Lake Erie, and is said to be migrating towards one of the city’s water supply pipes.

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