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Edward L. Tilton and Alford M. Githens were the lead architects for McGregor Library in HP. Detroit architects Marcus R. Burrowes and Frank Eurich, Jr. collaborated. A copy of the original...

How could they do something like that and omit the present value pension and healthcare liabilities? The stuff in that video is peanuts compared to retirement liabilities. Insurance companies that...

Detroit is really not as unusual as it might seem. Take a look at Douglas Rae's "City: Urbanism and Its End" or Kenneth Jackson's "Crab Grass Frontier." Rae is a Yale professor and served on the...

It sounds like you are actually asking for an accounting system. Are you on drugs? That is the absolutely the last thing any politician would want -- accountability. Government programs have long...

I am amazed that there is any resistance to this at all. In fact, the only thing strange about it is that Detroit has not been managing what they have by selectively charging fees. I grew up in HP...

I worked as a stock boy in Hudsons in 1965. It was the summer I graduated from HS. It was an impressive department store. I would compare it to Marshal Fields in Chicago. I remember working in...

This reminds me of utility rate increases. It is more or less legalized theft. Here are a couple of links to substantiate what a thirty year ripoff higher education has become. Universities have...

You are not the only one. The cost of higher education has increased about four times the rise in inflation over the last thirty years. It has actually increased faster than the cost of healthcare....

I suppose I left HP in 65 when I graduated from HS. My family did not leave completely until 1974. There was the 67 riot and the white flight, but we had no idea that a city like Detroit could see...

Sure, I can imagine. I grew up in HP in the 50's and 60's. When my family moved to Detroit in '52 the streetcars still ran up and down Woodward to the fairground. Detroit was one of the richest...

Wow, judging from these posts nobody seems to get it. It is still Democrat versus Republican, and whether the government services are going to be cut from people who need it. Well, the really bad...

There is a long list of things that killed Detroit, but up until now I did not include busing, so I will have to add it. Of course if you think busing killed Detroit you should check out the busing...

I would have thought that Glover would have actually read something about the library. It was built in the roaring twenties, 1926 to be exact, but Henry Ford did not have anything to do with it. ...

We were living on Grove Street in HP. I was 20 years old and at home, away from college, during the summer. I was working at the Ford Sterling Gear & Axle on the day shift, and my father was...

I think you missed the point on this one. This generalization goes back thousands of years and has been documented by numerous historians - [[Jackson, "Grabgrass Frontier, Kotkin, The City: A Global...

Detroit has been abandoned, but having grown up in Highland Park in the 50's and 60's and comparing it to the supposedly high end suburb I reside in outside of Washington DC you would at least think...

[quote=DetroitDad;43755]You don't see it because Downtown Detroit isn't sustainable living, although it is much more sustainable than many suburbs. Basically, Detroit became a suburb by default. What...

I grew up in Highland Park in the 50's and 60's and I rode my bike all over the city. The street grid layout made the city very accessible via bike, and the speed limits on Woodward Ave, or Grand...

Our family arrived in Highland Park in 1953. I remember riding the streetcars down to Hudson's. I also remember the original smoke stacks of the Ford plant that used to border Woodward Ave. Street...