Casey Taylor

Dec 28, 2023 | beltmag.com | Ed Simon |Casey Taylor |Morgan Springer |Ed Breen

By Ed Simon What small publication punches that much higher than Belt Magazine does? Operating out of a PO Box and with a shoe-string budget, we publish three times a week with essays, reportage, commentary, and photojournalism from across the wide swath of the region, the only publication in the United States exclusively dedicated to the experience of those in the Industrial Midwest, the Great Lakes Region, the Northern Appalachians, and the Rust Belt.

Jan 30, 2023 | beltmag.com | Casey Taylor

Trent Reznor never mentioned the Johnstown Flood in his interviews on MTV, though he would’ve learned about it the same way any other Rust Belt boy does…He never mentioned that he was a rich boy surrounded by a world his ancestors got tricked into helping destroy. By Casey Taylor They closed the Reznor plant in 2019, but it was called Nortek by then.