A Review: Starry Messenger – Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (2022) 
Nov02

A Review: Starry Messenger – Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (2022) 

By Bob Thomas To gain a fresher perspective on the state of our current human beingness, I stepped into space with astrophysicist/educator Neil DeGrasse Tyson as my starry messenger. His book opens with an astronaut’s perspective:  You develop instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.  From out there on the moon, International...

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Opinion: Let’s prosecute real criminals, not women and doctors
Nov02

Opinion: Let’s prosecute real criminals, not women and doctors

Letter to the Editor  By David Leyton, Genesee County Prosecutor As county prosecutor, it is my top duty to protect the health and safety of the citizens of Genesee County.  This is one of the many reasons I am supporting Proposal 3, which restores the right to reproductive freedom in Michigan’s constitution — a right that has existed for nearly 50 years. Without Proposal 3, an archaic 1931 law in Michigan that bans abortions and...

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The East Village Magazine – November 2022
Oct31

The East Village Magazine – November 2022

The latest edition of The East Village Magazine is available for download and viewing here:   View...

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Prop. 3 would “restore Roe — nothing more, nothing less,” for Michigan women, proponents assert
Oct29

Prop. 3 would “restore Roe — nothing more, nothing less,” for Michigan women, proponents assert

By Jan Worth-Nelson The entire goal of Proposal 3, the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative” on Michigan’s Nov. 8 ballot, is “to restore Roe — nothing more, nothing less,” representatives from Reproductive Freedom for All (RFFA)  declared in a panel discussion Saturday at Totem Books in Flint. “Proposal  3 restores the protections we had under Roe v. Wade for the past 50 years,”...

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Book review: Persona, place, and poetics in Sarah Carson’s “How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan”
Oct29

Book review: Persona, place, and poetics in Sarah Carson’s “How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan”

By William Barillas Born and bred, as the expression goes, in Flint, Michigan, poet Sarah Carson has previously published three chapbooks and two full-length books. The provocatively titled book Poems in Which You Die (2014) consists of surrealistic prose poems, narratives for the most part, that provoke speculation on what mundane yet consequential situations they might symbolize. Perhaps they represent the psychic backdrop to the...

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