Category Archives: Lakes and streams

Metro Times reviews ‘Up the Rouge!’

Posted on January 15, 2010 by hro50ta1

Somehow, we missed a very kind notice of Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River in Detroit’s Metro Times newspaper. The review of our book was the lead section of a roundup story by Michael Jackman in the November 25, 2009 issue of … Continue reading →

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Times and toxics

Posted on September 14, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell My first reaction on reading the Sunday, September 13, 2009 New York Times article on water pollution was to think, “Wow! They get it!” For years, I’ve been reporting that environmental pollution in Metro Detroit’s Rouge River is … Continue reading →

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Swim in the Rouge?

Posted on June 9, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell If somebody would have told me 20 years ago that the Rouge River would be fishable and swimmable most of the time, I would not have believed it, and yet we have done it. — Jim Ridgway, … Continue reading →

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Beaver logic

Posted on February 18, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Amazing what one beaver can do. This lone paddle-tail isn’t just damming Conner Creek. A beaver’s image, captured by a DTE Energy camera as it worked some timber along the Detroit River, has inspired claims by a … Continue reading →

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Everything’s binary

Posted on February 5, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Some questions are like a light switch. Their answers are either on, or they’re off. Yes or no. Like my questions to Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel through his press secretary, back on January 27, 2009: 1) Given Detroit’s … Continue reading →

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uptherouge.com goes live

Posted on January 19, 2009 by admin

By Joel Thurtell With the debut of my first book less than three months away, I’ve started a new blog, uptherouge.com It’s a way to promote Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River, the book I co-authored with Detroit Free … Continue reading →

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Measuring the Rouge

Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell On an overcast morning last month, as I followed Mapquest to a bridge on Military Street spanning the Lower Rouge River in Dearborn, I did a very un-Mapquest thing — hopped my car over a curb, stowing … Continue reading →

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Rouge 2008: Festival of self-congratulation

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Rouge 2008: Festival of self-congratulation 10/22/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell Somehow, I can’t get all that excited about a new, $1 billion blast furnace at the Severstal steel mill on the Rouge River in Dearborn. I’m still blinking from the … Continue reading →

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Matty of fact

Posted on October 2, 2008 by admin

TAKE BACK THE PARK softball game. Meet 4:15 p.m. today (10-1-8) at Detroit’s Riverside Park. Gane at 5 p.m. Wear black t-shirts. Bring your own water! [donation] By Joel Thurtell From: Joel Thurtell, Former Journalist To; Matty Moroun, Tyrant Tycoon … Continue reading →

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Dear Matty,…

Posted on September 30, 2008 by admin

BYOW Bring Your Own Water to the softball game at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at Riverview Extension Park in Detroit. Park is on 23rd Street a block south of Fort. Game is meant to assert public right to … Continue reading →

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