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You Must Be This Tall To Ride In Detroit
You live in New York and you’ve seen a billboard encouraging you to move to Detroit.
In Columbus, Somalis Live Under Suspicion
For the past year and a half, Abdiraham Sheik Mohamud, a 23-year-old Columbus resident born in Somalia, was being watched by law enforcement.
Readers’ Corner: Bernice’s Tavern, Chicago
Bernice's Tavern in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago would be a corner bar if it was on a corner.
A Tree Hugger’s Guide To The Forest Dynamics of Northeast Ohio
About twenty miles east of downtown Cleveland, there is a stand of forest with trees older than the U.S. government.
The Season of Reanimation, Cannibalism, and Profligate Orgies: Consider the Wood Frog
On a cold wet night, practically still winter, wood frogs are improbably crawling out onto the dark road. These frogs are about two-inches long with tan bodies and dark robber’s masks.
Money Does Grow on Trees: Canopy Cover Reflects Income Inequality
An enormous tree engulfs my front lawn. I do not know what kind of tree it is.
The State Trees of the Rust Belt
Illustration of state trees of Rust Belt states by David Wilson
Lay Down Your Weapons, Pick Up Your Tools: Trading Guns for Blowtorches in Pittsburgh
The one thing gun rights advocates and public health experts agree on is that offering money in exchange for weapons doesn’t reduce crime.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt.
Redevelopment by Numbers in York, PA
Fueling vibrancy in a postindustrial city is a daunting task. Economic redevelopment, no matter how you slice it, can be exorbitantly expensive, snail-paced, and risky. Like many of its industry-starved brethren across the Rust Belt ...
Walking and Thinking: Technology and the New Navigation of Everyday Space
You know how when you read two books at the same time, they often kind of meld together in your head, like in that novel where Gatsby takes the raft down the Mississippi?

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