Restaurant Seating Expansion Ypsilanti Changes Downtown Dining Landscape...In Very Cool Way.

Photo Jeff Brown Purple Walrus Press.

By Editor in Chief & Publisher Jeff Brown.

Everywhere you look these days signs of change are evident in the age of COVID 19. In downtown Ypsilanti restaurateurs are adapting to the pandemic by initiating seating expansion into downtown streets. What does the expanded seating look like? Well, frankly, it looks pretty cool. Seating expansion into the street at Beezy's Cafe on N. Washington Street and Bobcat Bonnie's at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Washington looks inviting and fun. Of particular interest in front of Bobcat Bonnie's would be the intriguing looking round pod-like framed structures poised on the street on Washington. Hmm.Very intriguing indeed.

If you want to check out the new awesome outdoor restaurant seating in downtown Ypsi, head on down!

Photos Jeff Brown Purple Walrus Press.

In front of Bobcat Bonnie's at corner of Michigan Ave and N. Washington Tuesday afternoon.

Expanded seating in front of Beezy's on N. Washington Tuesday afternoon.

Mr. Trump, I Wear A Mask To Protect People I Care About: By Purple Walrus Press Contributor Melissa Mays of Flint.

Mr. Trump,

I wear a mask to protect the people I care about and people I don't know. I wear a mask because I could be carrying a virus and not know it and I do not want to accidentally transmit it to someone even more vulnerable than me. I wear a mask because I have a compromised immune system so symptoms showed up differently for my body. I wear a mask because MY PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN recommends it. I don't listen to you or give a DAMN how you feel about my mask. You are NOT A DOCTOR nor are you the center of the universe, you ignorant, self-absorbed, narcissistic toad. My mask and I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS OR YOUR POLITICS, Mr. Trump, and neither does the virus. I live in a poisoned community where science, caution and concern for others FAR outweighs your personal, unprofessional and immature feelings and opinions.

GROW. UP. This is NOT about you, no matter how hard you want it to be. It's about protecting the people you have systematically failed.

Shame on you.

Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Will Be Questioned today About the Flint Water Crisis, And Specifics Regarding the Mass Lead Contamination of My hometown.

Editor in Chief & Publisher Jeff Brown.

Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder will be questioned today about what he knew regarding the Flint water crisis that has gripped my hometown since 2014. In today's deposition, Snyder will be asked about questions relating to what he knew about the horrific contamination of the drinking water in the city of Flint. He is going to be asked the specifics regarding the mass lead contamination of an entire city's drinking water.

The deposition relates to civil lawsuits filed on behalf of over a dozen Children in Flint. Former Governor Snyder has not answered any questions about the the Flint Water Crisis in over four years.

The water crisis began in 2014 when the City of Flint decided to change the source of the city's drinking water in order to save money. The Flint River became the new source of water, however, the water was not correctly treated. The corrosive water began to strip the lead from the city's lead water pipes and soon the poisonous lead riddled water made it's way into Flint homes, contaminating the tap and bath water. The water for 100,000 Flint residents became contaminated at severely hazardous levels.

The deposition began at 9 a.m Thursday morning.

On The Flint Water Crisis: By Purple Walrus Press Contributor and Flint Activist Melissa Mays.

Downtown Flint. Photo Jeff Brown Purple Walrus Press.

Ok, it is June 2020. The #FlintWaterCrisis began 2,245 days ago and it has been in international news since 2015... Yet, I was tagged in a thread where people are saying that Whitmer shouldn't have the power to put forth Executive Orders for safety relating to COVID-19 and in the same breath praise former Governor Snyder and SOMEHOW it is OUR FAULT that Snyder, under his forced Emergency Manager Law, took unilateral control over our water, switched the source, refused to properly treat it and then lie & cover it up as innocent people died. APPARENTLY it's NOT OK to put orders in to try to tackle a pandemic BUT it's PERFECTLY OK to put orders in that poison and kill people.

NOW, these same soulless, ignorant people were also parroting the same old, tired, debunked lies from 2014 & 2015.

Parola Perspective In Brief: Anti-Intellectualism in American: By PWP Contributor Brooks Parola.

While anti-intellectualism has been a part of American culture for some time, I’m beginning to think that they’ve actually won.

Scientists and experts in almost every field are under attack like never before, and from all sides. And too many people seem to be far more interested in their right to spread misinformation than for standing up for people who’ve spent much of their adult lives becoming experts in their field. Whether it’s anti-fact, anti-science conservatives, or crazy conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum, the experts are constantly being attacked and undermined.