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Detroit’s City Council delayed a vote on whether to hold a special election for the mayor’s office. An election held before Nov. 2009’s already scheduled vote would cost the city millions of dollars. There’s debate on both sides and we’ll hear more from WDET’s Rob St. Mary.
Michigan could gain more than 60,000 new jobs in the alternative energy fields, according to a new report released yesterday. It’s by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the report examines the benefits of a rapid program of both private and public investments in clean energy transition. What exactly does all that entail? Kit Batten, Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy and Ph.D. ecologist at the Center for American Progress, answers our- and your- questions. Call us at 313.577.1019.
Then Zoe Lipman, Regional Senior Manager at the National Wildlife Federation responds to the report as a Michigan resident who’s heavily involved in the green energy field.
The 4th Annual St. Albertus Fest is coming up this Saturday. It's a chance to eat, drink and hear classical music inside a 125 year old church that's near Detroit's Eastern Market. Outside you'll hear live indie rock music, folk, and bluegrass. Michigan Now's Chris McCarus got a tour of St. Albertus to find out why it needs help.
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Between the three of them, Mary Heinen, Jean Miller, and Monica Jahner have spent 73 years in state prison, averaging around 23 years each. The women have paid dearly for mistakes made while they were young, and now their lives are dedicated to helping prisoners reform and succeed back in society. Mary, Jean, and Monica join us at 11am for a frank discussion on what it’s really like to serve time in a Michigan prison , and the difficulties of coming back to life on the outside.
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This week’s Metro Times recounts the tale of Mayor Kilpatrick, in comic book form. We’ll speak with MT writer Curt Guyette and illustrator Sean Bieri.
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This just proves that even if we "drill here, drill now" it will not make any difference. OPEC will only cut production to keep the prices the same. The price oil is on global scale. This just shows that we need to make more fuel efficient cars or come up with alternative energies.
We have plug in cars today that are much better than yesterdays electric cars. Now all we have to do is make sure that we have the capacity to charges these cars. Furthermore if we replace one fusel fuel of oil with another fusel fuel of coal, we are not doing the world any favors. We need more solar and wind energies that are environmentally friendly and once the investment capital is paid will be free. There is no tax on the sun or the wind.
-Chris
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Nanoantenna are a smaller, cheaper to produce solar energy. Not only is it more economically efficient, it is also more powerful than standard photovoltaic solar power. Nanoantennas work at night by catching the infrared heat that is still left in our atmosphere even after the sun has set.
When I started drawing comics back in 2002, I drew a comic and then explained it with a large paragraph underneath. One critic jumped on me for doing that. He said that the comic itself did not have any original insight or commentary, that it was not compelling or even convincing. He went on to say that the text underneath was more compelling than the actual comic. The thing is, while he was being very critical, he was right.
The Kwame-man comic did not add anything more to the article or even than what the headlines have already been reporting over the last year. It does suggests the idea of Kwame as the larger than life pimp/superhero while still having an smaller public image ... but that was shown in the one illustration on the cover. This Kwame-man comic will be shown to "non-comic-readers" for the first time. So I ask if it something that represents the medium or fails to prove its worth?