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You’ve gotta have art

Over at Eclectablog, I’ve been writing a lot about the Affordable Care Act and Michigan Medicaid expansion, in an effort to educate and engage people.

PaintTwirlBut I’m working on number of new posts — including a series of stories about Detroit and Michigan, focusing on the things that make us great. You can watch for those, coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a post I wrote not long ago about the Detroit Institute of Arts, defending one of the jewels of the city.

Dear world: Keep your greedy hands off the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection

Read for yourself why I believe keeping the collection here is part of rebuilding the city and protecting the interests of people who have invested decades in serving Detroit.

In Defense of Detroit and the DIA

In Defense of Detroit and the DIADetroit may face its share of challenges, but that doesn’t give outsiders the right to look down their noses at us.

So when I read an opinion piece by Virginia Postrel asserting that the Detroit Institute of Art’s treasures like Van Gogh’s self portrait would be “better off” in Los Angeles than they are in Detroit, I had a thing or two to say about that.

My post for Eclectablog: No, Virginia, The DIA Is Not Ruin Porn

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