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Kalamazoo and Portage mayors lead bicycle ride through neighboring cities
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The ride started at Celery Flats Pavilion in Portage at 9 a.m. Saturday. Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson and Portage Mayor Patricia Randall led the group of cyclists on a nine-mile route through the neighboring cities.
Kalamazoo Bike Week began in 2012, as a way to raise cycling awareness and to promote the benefits of bicycling. Coordinated by area nonprofit Bike Friendly Kalamazoo, it has to continued throughout the pandemic, including virtual events and socially distanced adjustments to event plans.
Along with the mayors’ ride on Saturday, this year’s Bike Week also included a variety of other events, including a used bicycle tire recycling event, adult bike repair clinic, virtual yoga, Lakeview park open house and a diversity and bicycling meet and greet.
Black Lives Matter will ‘stand in unity’ with Kalamazoo Asian American community at No More Hate rally
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Lily Cheng-Schulting, 2020 Democratic State Representative nominee in District 72, will be one of the keynote speakers at a May 16 Black Lives Matter/Stop Asian Hate rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cheng-Schulting is pictured here speaking at a rally/vigil in Grand Rapids on Saturday, March 20, 2021 that honored victims from the March 16 mass shooting in Atlanta which killed eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent. (MLive File Photo | Hope Davison)Hope Davison
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KALAMAZOO, MI A rise in hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community over the past two years has led local activists in Kalamazoo to come together with community leaders to stand together, speak out and listen.
A report on some of the obstacles to housing everyone in Kalamazoo
The first problem – and the biggest one, according to housing advocates in Kalamazoo – is simply that Kalamazoo does not have enough affordable housing. Demand outstrips the supply by as much as a few thousand units.
“This is the result of our housing policies that we have had for last couple decades,” said Kalamazoo Mayor David Anderson, who works for Integrated Services of Kalamazoo, one of the groups leading the hotel project. (Anderson is also on the board of the LIFT Foundation, which owns the Lodge – one of two hotels recently used as temporary housing.)
KALAMAZOO & PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The tenth annual Kalamazoo Bike Week is continuing from now through Saturday, May 15. One of the events pla.