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1 day ago · Website. detroitmi .gov. Detroit ( / dɪˈtrɔɪt /, dih-TROYT; locally also / ˈdiːtrɔɪt /, DEE-troyt) [8] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city on the Canada–United States border and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, [9] making it the 26th-most ...
1 day ago · Burbank, like other cities in California, has been facing many economic, political and social challenges in recent years. One of the main issues is the lack of affordable housing in the city. The cost of single-family homes in Burbank topped $1 million by early 2021.
2 hours ago · Appel, Mason, and Watts divide oil anthropology into four approaches: (a) the resource curse focused on oil money, oil politics of states and the political elite; (b) oil as violence, focused on big oil and big military, and imperial states competing for a diminishing resource; (c) oil as modernity, focused on the relationship between oil and consumerism, modern amenities, carbon emissions and ...
2 hours ago · Meanwhile, the first major oil well in the South was drilled at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas, on the morning of January 10, 1901. Other oil fields were later discovered nearby in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and under the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting "Oil Boom" permanently transformed the economy of the West South Central states and produced the ...
