Jimmy McBroom

windsorstar.com/news/mayoral... this guy just got elected mayor of windsor. please let this happen

every lot bot is going to look at the county auction results for the next few weeks (about 1300 parcels)

Every mid-sized Michigan city is surrounded by a Taxcheat Charter Township with the worst exurban development ever -- and all the businesses. And then we wonder why so many parts of Michigan suck.

gotta say i'm loving our *checks graph* zero quality of life here in Detroit Michigan USA

This neighbor was the real ShotSpotter www.freep.com/story/news/l...

3119 E CANFIELD Parcel ID: 13002329. Year built: Unknown Zoned R2 Tax status: EXEMPT (211.7S) Image dates: Aug 11 2019 on left; May 08 2026 on right

how can this gas station be leaving drivers with "no alternative" but to pay up?? are they coercing people to purchase gas by force?

BREAKING: Detroit’s water department may decide to relocate from its historic downtown office building after discovering costly structural problems, with total renovations costing an estimated $30 million-$40 million. More info here: outliermedia.org/detroit-wate...

the solution is clear. abolish townships

jaunty roof line detected

woodward sidewalk is pretty wide but still probably shouldn't be e-biking on it

nature is healing

MDO carshare just keeps getting better: mdocarshare.org/michigan/ Peaches & Greens (3rd and Hazelwood) just added as a new location, and coming soon to the new rehabbed apartment building on Hamilton & Calvert

I dreamt there was high speed rail from Detroit to traverse city and mackinaw

Painful loss of eminently savable mixed use buildings in my neighborhood bsky.app/profile/ever...

nolan finley: "we've tried one thing and we're all out of ideas"

My contribution to the helmet discourse is to note that there is a strong inverse correlation between helmet use and cycling. There is no real-world evidence that you can convince lots of people to ride bikes and wear helmets. God bless you for trying, but I don’t think it will work.

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dan gilbert, best known for completely screwing up the alignment of the QLine streetcar against the wishes of the public, will now be the grand marshal of the thanksgiving parade

a good mnemonic to remember the names of the Great Lakes now is SHAME

a wild land boat appears

i (civil servant) have never even heard of the civil service commission lol

thanks, i hate it.

this article accurately nails the problem: "Stores need customers". Somehow, it doesn't seem to mention the obvious remedy of attracting more residents.

Ranger III spotted.

today's discourse reminding of the 2018 gubernatorial primary, where Shri won the City of Detroit over both Whitmer and El-Sayed. But nobody was panicking then that Whitmer was in trouble with Black voters.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

we love to see multifamily rehabs

Unpopular opinion. even if automakers did “take the streetcars from Detroit” (highly debatable!), that’s not an excuse for 75 years of inaction. it’s a ridiculous story to keep leaning on and lets the entire political class and electorate off the hook for their poor choices

Detroit should probably be doing this, but with closer to a million.

the hours of operation for the gordie howe bride multi-use path are out! and they're predictably terrible. 8am to 8pm and you have to be on the bridge 1 hour before it closes. so at the bridge by 7pm. so functionally you can't go to windsor for anything but the earliest of dinners/events

and it barely has any parking for bicycles

tired of seeing this stupid statistic trotted out by the worst people in metro detroit, so i wrote about it

ice cream loss ☹️

Piggybacking off this to ask: What are people’s favorite Detroit street names? There are so many good ones but my top 2 are Ironsides and Regular. We might name the kitten Conant (A street I lived off of, named for a prominent abolitionist who advocated for Black people to be able to own homes).

Study confirms that "Reducing car mode share and Vehicle Miles Traveled appear to be viable strategies for improving road safety." So why isn't shifting travel modes to transit, biking and walking a traffic safety strategy in Michigan? Any guesses? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

20258 CALDWELL Parcel ID: 13014349. Year built: 1953 Zoned R1 Tax status: TAXABLE Image dates: Sep 01 2019 on left; Sep 08 2024 on right

Canada is our friend, tariffs are inflationary and this is economic illiteracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

voigt park 💚

Just saw a guy park a cement mixer in a bus stop and walk into a Metro by T-Mobile store. Sometimes the issue in NYC is that we haven’t carefully considered the needs of working people who need to drive to make this city run. But sometimes it’s just that we let people do whatever.

Rise and shine! 🌞🌞 I am back with @detdocumenters.bsky.social to cover this morning's Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority meeting scheduled for 9 a.m.