Detroit, Mich. Traveling Companion: Rodney Crowell Events: Breakfast with Polidori family; meeting with United Auto Workers activists; Dinner with Doug Ross and friends, Macomb County; Breakfast with Kevin Gentry and friends, Brighton, Michigan; Rocky Rajkowski Town Hall, Birmingham, Mi. Well, this has been a very busy 48 hours, devoted to some of the most important [...]
Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Traveling Companion: Rodney Crowell Events: Eid Celebration with Islamic Leaders; A-OK Detroit Community Serve in Clark Park. I wanted to visit Detroit’s large Islamic community–the largest, it is said, outside the Middle East and Paris–and we arrived in town at opportune time: at the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of daytime [...]
The Associated Press does a “fact check” on a passage from Obama’s presser today that also caught my ear: President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and hawing on that…. [Obama said] he [...]
From the White House Photo Blog.
My ipod was in a bluesy, soulful mood–no doubt, in anticipation of Motown–and here’s some of the best stuff that popped up: 1. Poor Man’s Plea–Buddy Guy and Junior Wells 2. Bleeding Heart–Jimi Hendrix 3. At Last–Etta James 4. Crossroads–Robert Johnson (thrilling, like a ghost in the box; forgot I had it.) 5. I’m a [...]
Detroit, Michigan Traveling Companions: none Just a quick note, since I have to go pick up my next traveling companion–Rodney Crowell, the great Nashville singer-songwriter–at the airport. We’re going to an Eid celebration (the end of Ramadan) tonight in the Detroit suburbs, then a full schedule of events this morning. This morning, I interviewed both [...]
I might have missed it, but at today’s White House press conference I don’t think anyone asked the president about yesterday’s important court ruling enshrining Bush-era claims to sweeping executive power, powers that the Obama Justice Department has sought to protect. As the New York Times complained yesterday, “Barack Obama told voters in 2008 that [...]
It’s a bit outside the normal Swampland purview, but Katy Steinmetz and I have a story today about Teresa Lewis, who is slated to be executed in Virginia on Sept. 23. Lewis would be the first woman put to death in the commonwealth in nearly a century, and one of only a handful executed since [...]
