State economic development officials and a nonprofit urban farming group have launched a crowdfunded campaign to turn a vacant Detroit building into a community resource center. The campaign to raise $50,000 was launched Tuesday by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and Michigan Urban Farming Initiative.
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Phoenix urban garden mysteriously closes amid land dispute
The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix… . This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo shows some of the dozens of individual gardens at a 15-acre public gardens, in Phoenix.
Detroit Tigers, Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch dies at age 87
Ilitch, the owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Tigers, who founded the Little Caesars Pizza empire, … The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations remains on hold after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that… The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations remains on hold after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban. A new report says the world’s first atomic bomb test caused generations of New Mexico families to suffer from cancer and economic hardship.
Sacrificing California spillway may avoid emergency releases
State engineers on Thursday discovered new damage to the Oroville Dam spillway in Northern California, the tallest in the United State… . Water flows through break in the wall of the Oroville Dam spillway, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Oroville, Calif.
The Don of Hardcore Steps Up Again
In a photo published in 1982 by the small zine Maniac!, Paul Hudson, known then as H.R., stood over a pile of bricks and soil in a scraggly garden, his legs spread apart and every inch of his shirtless upper body tightly flexed. He called it his “last official punk pose,” and in the accompanying interview he explained why he was stepping away from his band, Bad Brains, changing his name to Joseph I, and starting a new, Rastafarian-influenced reggae outfit, Zion Train.