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Another thing about the character of a place you bring up. When it grays. Totally saps the energy. You need kids and young parents and even...hipsters.

There is something to the mentality of the people who settled a place being an important factor. For years the book Seeds of Albion was considered authoritative about the "folkways" of the United States which broadly implies that snooty but moral NE settlers around the Plymouth Rock settlement were different than cash crop-loving (and eventual slave-holding) Jamestown settlers who were different from fringe British Caledonian and Celtic martial types who settled in the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains, never mind the criminals who settled in Georgia. Fine as it goes but any analysis that ignores the Dutch culture in West Michigan, the Scandinavian and Finnish culture in the upper Great Lakes not to mention the Polish and Italian culture of the cities. It still means a lot that there are variances in place. The character of Hamtramck is definitely shifting but is that bad? Its bad if someone says its bad. Chinatowns were a thing in most cities and now they have to be historical theme parks to protect that character with funding. Its like keeping Tiger Stadium up as a monument. Its fine but does it actually serve a public good to do that. Invest in the good and mitigate the actual bad (crime, excessive vice) vs change as bad (they look different, they eat different food).

Royals and Nats are really in a barn burner

I enjoyed Rod for whatever reason.

Twins are done…these OF are playing like they are running through wet cement.

Twins RF was playing to get the season over.

Familiar voice on the Marlin’s broadcast…

That's fantastic!

quick inning for our hitters I do not like.

opposing starter appears uninterested in aiding our cause. Work him.

Yeah, not cool...

She earned $250K to talk to the gays.

The stakes

Legal migrants are now to be forcibly removed according to Trump's rally last night.

I legit snorted at this.

ok, the RGA is not the same as the RNC. I totally get that the RGA would not continue to support that weirdo.

what the hell!?

listening to people on various pol podcasts lately, a lot of discussion that the Dems didn't drop that Mark Robinson oppo. That was the GOP trying to force him to quit. They did that because they likely knew about stuff that was worse that was coming. I dunno: once Hamburg is burned to the ground, do you need to keep "dehousing" the rubble?

And my dad’s business partner got driven out of local GOP politics by questioning the militarization of the local gendarmerie.

The local sheriff is trying to rival the philadelphia police department of the 1970s by acquiring armored fighting vehicles and other extravagant equipment while the local high school suffers for resources.

From what i see, the white entrenched business owners are stupidly fighting the business opportunities.

This feels true

Fascinating I think i agree with the premise. I can see the degree to which locals are annoyed. I've seen my dad try to navigate the hostility to Mexican business among his West-Michigan rotary club among the entrenched white business owners. He's always trying to increase outreach to the non-English speaking community and crickets from the rest of the local club.

This is the purview of the big 3 network nightly news shows (although to be fair I'm thinking NBC and ABC specifically). They always seem to be trying to bothsides things to the extent that you'd think corporate was monitoring the broadcast with pain buzzers hooked to the on-air talent's nethers.