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The community around the site had some good ideas, and perhaps some will be incorporated, but I feel they got the stiff arm from Lansing all those years MEDC kept talking "Magic Plus." Same-old...

Oh, the rendering showed shuttle buses? Oh, OK then. I'm sure that since the picture showed something, it's bound to become a reality. I take all my skeptical doubts back.

It's like BRT, but only for people who can afford the cars that sync with any technology that they install.

All you have to do is pay several thousand dollars to modify your car.

Congratulations, Lowell!

The facility can switch from trash burning to natural gas anytime it wants to. It has done so in the past while the burners were serviced.

Partly true. The poisons that issue from the stack are relatively odor-free. They are the more dangerous emissions, but do little to contribute to the facility's "bouquet."

The airplane...

A lot of decent people in the 1970s believed that it was a good thing to build it, and against the backdrop of Detroit's ambient pollution at the time, it probably wasn't that big a deal.

But...

I believe you are correct, Jimaz. Very few people are alive today to recall it, but there was some similar anxiety about the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. As a result, different states passed some...

I have frequently been surprised by how many recording artists were from Detroit, or had some childhood connection to Detroit. I guess I knew that Bill Haley grew up in Highland Park, but I was more...

Perhaps you saw this article:

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/head-case/Content?oid=2179142

I personally got a good long look at the statuary when it was in a shambles behind the fort. I...

Why build it where it is? To understand this, you need to think of the main talent of Olympia. It isn't neighborhood development that's their forte, though -- it's corporate welfare artistry.
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We just passed the 200th anniversary of the abandonment of Judge Woodward's plan for Detroit. One of the benefits of that plan would have been a Woodward Avenue that ran straight and true, 120 feet...

Somebody told me that the demolition began in the morning, and that motorists were driving downtown and saw the wreckers at work in great surprise. It had only been five years since the last...

When you get everything for free, what's the incentive to make a go of things? The Ilitch organization has one major talent, and it isn't neighborhood development: It's priming the pump with public...

I've had it before. Don't believe all the hype about "invasives." What we do is, we neglect land -- mistreat it, abandon it, pollute it -- and then blame the plants that grow there for "invading" the...

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/06/20/forgotten-history-detroits-1943-race-riot-broke-out-75-years-ago-today

Sadly, the last time I saw him was at Django's memorial service at the Old Miami. Rest In Power, Gannon.

The way some people weigh Detroit's population losses with something approaching satisfaction illustrates why this metropolitan area isn't ready for real regionalism.

It's sorta like watching...

Blair Evans ran the successful Catherine Ferguson Academy into the ground as a charter contractor. That pretty much ruins him in my eyes. Maybe Blair should write a book called, "How I Took a...

This all started with the Laffer Curve, which actually made sense.

The argument goes that when you have a punitively high tax rate on economic activity, economic activity goes down because nobody...

Yes, that roughly tracks with 1.2 to 1.4 percent. The percentage actually went down during the flood of European immigration and the growth of the nascent auto industry in the '00s. The Great...

Happily surprised to see a pre-Great Migration African-American in this view. Just about 1 percent of the population at this time.

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One of the last properties in the once-mighty MPRG. Now, aside from a few specialty ethnic eateries, they're down to Novi Chophouse? And it only took almost 15 years to get here.

Fact is,...

Back to the drawing board.

I'd be more willing to vote for a plan that was more short-term. Really want to move those workers out to Hall Road? OK, fine. Fund a five-year plan to accomplish that. ...

These renderings are hilarious.

Who is going to pay to dig out all the polluted dirt at the old factories along the shore and put them on railcars and ship them to Aiken, S.C.?

Pretty...