Neal Rubin
Columnist at Detroit Free Press
Columnist at the Free Press. Reasonably good guy, unreasonably bad golfer. Former writer of "Gil Thorp." And: recently hacked/followers erased, so welcome back.
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Neal Rubin
They're all dead, these brave souls on Lisa Lark's list. That doesn't change. But where they answered the door, before they answered the call? Who they truly were? How they lived, and not just how they died? That's forever in flux, as she builds her registry of every Detroiter since the Civil War to perish amid military service to their country.
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3 weeks ago |
freep.com | Neal Rubin
As a mommy goose and daddy goose escorted five adorable goslings across a neighborhood pond and onto the grass in Farmington Hills the other day, I had to wonder:At what point do they teach the kiddies to be malevolent bastards?
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3 weeks ago |
freep.com | Neal Rubin
Ayrton Senna was a three-time Formula 1 world champion, and there's an indentation from his rump on the lid of Mal Lang's best cooler. Senna won the Detroit Grand Prix three times, and it was his words of wisdom that turned Lang into a seat belt user and maybe saved his life. Senna is having a moment, 31 years after he hit a wall at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix and the government of his native Brazil declared three days of mourning.
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4 weeks ago |
freep.com | Neal Rubin
The fish are newcomers. They flew to Michigan from California like the blacktip sharks, or traveled by truck from Florida like the cownose rays. Or if they were small enough, like the cichlids, FedEx dropped them at the door. Most of the mammals and other creatures at LegaSea Aquarium & The Reptarium were already here, at the original Reptarium across the street.
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1 month ago |
freep.com | Neal Rubin
First off, William Smith is a liar. Second off, too. Smith, 52, was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison April 24 for embezzling at least $44.3 million from the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. A day later, conservancy board chairman Matt Cullen told the Free Press that "he's lying still.""He has told the court that he had cooperated — that he had worked to help us find the money — and he has not. That's a lie," Cullen said. Just add it to the list.
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