In a word: Rochester #michigan #census

Not all the census data reported the day before yesterday (or yesterday, if you're west of Chicago) was bad. The city of Rochester, MI, which is literally right up the street from me, grew 21.8% during the past decade. This wasn't a complete surprise to me, as a couple of my students had told me that business that had been in Royal Oak and Ferndale had moved to Rochester and that the city was the next hot place around here, complete with a booming and walkable downtown. Looks like they were right.

News clip from WXYZ follows.

Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Late night news linkspam

Late Night Motie News Linkspam

I decided to look at the rest of the world tonight, and concentrate on food news, although I also have links about housing patterns, energy, public transportation, and public perception of climate change. Some of the food articles should look familiar, as I featured them last week.

I'll return to the Census later. There's enough to write about that I should be blogging about it into next week.