• Posts Tagged ‘Detroit’

    No Grocery Stores

    by  • November 28, 2010 • politics & money

    Quite often, a stark reality of being poor is that even if you wanted to do the right thing by your children, it’s damn near impossible to do. When The First Lady is being criticized for “anti-obesity” program, many in the media forget that it’s a political catch all that’s really a reductive way of knocking Michelle [...]

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    Detroit left for dead, leaves its dead

    by  • October 10, 2009 • politics & money

    When the county doesn’t have money for Pauper’s Burials and the citizens don’t have money to bury their dead loved ones…they stay frozen (h/t Post Bourgie) Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the [...]

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