It's not true compared to Detroit...

And it's primarily about reduced demand for office space post-Covid.

It's a very specific problem of empty office buildings in certain parts of downtowns, not a City-wide decline.

Technically you don't need an ID, but the alternative is filling out paperwork when you vote and a slight chance your vote won't get counted.

So, bring your ID.

Having early in-person voting will help with that.

Those might be Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Pennsylvania, but we're high up on the list.

Give Detroit heavy rail metros under the spoke roads, Telegraph, and 8 Mile. Create a statewide rail network in Michigan and Chicago-Detroit-Toronto high speed rail to make Michigan Central a rail hub again.

Finish the Ridge Ave subway so the Broad-Ridge spur can be less creepy?

The eastern UP is cold and remote. It's just a radically different lifestyle from the downstate megalopolis or even the touristy northern lower peninsula.

The western UP is colonially occupied Wisconsin.

Eh, as a Michigander I'd actually say it's east-west, because so much of the northern lower peninsula is culturally connected to the downstate metro areas through cottages and summer homes.

The UP is certainly different, but it's only 2% of the state's population, so it's more a subculture than a divide. There's also a subculture in the southwest of the state since that's Chicagoland.

But the big divide is the Detroit/automotive/Catholic/diverse/blue collar east vs the Grand Rapids/forestry/Protestant/homogeneous/white collar west.

The views might be its best feature.

Found Rick Snyder's account.

Fulton is loud. I work near there and we joke about "Fulton Street chaos."

Buses, motorcycles, teenagers, fire trucks, scooters, random music, public screaming matches, etc.

Some of the confusion comes from the fact that the numbers were switched when they were first built. But they've had their current numbers for almost 60 years so it's not like the switch was recent.

Officially but not on any signage or commonly used maps.

I think it's mostly for funding purposes.

96 to Muskegon, 196 to Holland.

I had one guy who would show up to every meeting, read the room, and then passionately argue against whatever the emerging consensus was.

Which once meant a very eloquent defense of McDonalds' right to put in a high rise highway sign.

This can only happen against Iowa.

Yep. With tons of ways to define "water", "middle of nowhere", and "overpriced."

For sure.

I agree. Just saying that they exist outside the clusters, and in some cases they're the only buildings left because they were surrounded by non-viable single family homes.

Yeah, we should have joined the B1G so we wouldn't have games on Peacock...wait...

And in completely random spots surrounded by empty lots.

Reminds me of the dualing piano bar in South Bend that would play the Victors until someone paid them to stop.

If you can pre-set personnel by formation, that would help.

I got off the PATCO line in Camden once and some guy walked up and said:

"Welcome to Camden! That way's the crack part of Camden. That way's the heroin part of Camden. That way's the County Jail. And that way? You don't want to go that way."