Every Tuesday, we put another topic out there for a week long GLUE photo contest. This week we want your images of... WATER

Thanks, Spencer, for the "recycled" image you submitted that won last week's photo contest. Because he won, Spencer Olinek got to tell GLUE what organization he loves in Detroit that deserves a shout-out. He chose the Hub, a non-profit full-service retail bike shop whose income supports a free youth and adult education program called Back Alley Bikes. If you're in Detroit, it is located at 3611 Cass Avenue...

An article by Steven Rosen in this week's Cincinnati CityBeat explores a host of happenings in Ohio that are changing the economy, and the planet: "As the Age of Barack Obama begins Tuesday with his inauguration as our 44th president, Ohio finds itself tilting at windmills in its quest to reach for the kind of energy-efficient, sustainable, economically healthy future that he believes will get the country out of its calamitous recession..."

Jim Straub published a heartbreaking piece about Braddock, PA in the most recent Monthly Review, from which I've quoted only very briefly below. The title alludes to Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell. If you haven't read it, check it out. If you aren't familiar with Braddock, you should be...