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My uncle passed away this past year just outside Detroit in the house his parents bought in 1940, paying it off in 18 years at a thousand a year. Not having to pay off a mortgage and living well...

I live and own a landscaping business in San Francisco and let me tell you to many of us higher home values do not necessarily make for a better city. For one it makes for a mentality where...

Viewing this on going saga from afar it's sad that Detroit and the state have not moved from their ingrained distrust of each other that has been going on for at least 40 years, that being my...

oops not that one, this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petqFm94osQ&feature=related

Still one of my favorite commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_mfiw_lD9s

I haven't read her book but I've meet her and been to her place a couple times as one of my friends lives in her building in the lower unit. Novella done a lot of great work and her place is pretty...

One of the main reason I still live in S.F., even with the high cost of living and sometimes overly pretentious citizenry, is the quality of the mass transit system in and outside of the city. One...

My girlfriend and I have 4 hens at our yard in the Noe Valley District of San Francisco. It is legal here to have 4 small animals, including chickens. It is also legal to have a rooster, though...

Just saw the show out here in S.F. last night at Counter Pulse http://counterpulse.org/

It was the largest show at the space except for Rick Prelinger's "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. They...

When my father had his office at the David Stott Building we would often go to the Caucus Club. Once, when I was around 5yr, I saw Mr. Belvedere [[from the home repair commercials popular on channel...

When I lived briefly in D.C. in the late 90s the mix of people on my block went from africain-amercain on one end [[across from a housing project), then latinos, then bike messages [[a ethnically mixed...

Several of my friends recently returned to S.F. from the USSF in Detroit and though they had mixed reviews of the Forum itself they all raved about the City. Congradualtions on treating your...

I just watched the program online and enjoyed it quite a bit. As a cyclist I wished that they would have included how many cities in Europe are including the bicycle more and more into there mass...

When a writer friend of mine in S.F. asked why Charlie LaDuff would write for the Detroit News I said he is either losing his skills as a reporter or getting lazy. I think doing stories like his in...

I still don't believe a poor city has to be a corrupt, poorly run nor even a dangerous city. And I hope that the new leadership, Bing, Bobbs, Evans, etc. agree with me. A city that provides...

I agree with you quite a bit MichMatters. First and foremost it's the economy and Detroit's so called leaders have failed to diversify it for generations. But at this point with so little...

First off let me apologies for my poor spelling. I meant "insensitive" of course.

Second, I don't think most of Detroit's problems are a question of skin color, but when it comes to the state of...

I just finished watching the documentary "64 about the '64 riots [[rebellion) in Rochester, NY that predated but extremely similar to those in Watts, Detroit and other cities in the 1960s. Though I...

I do really believe iteven though I know it's illogical. If you meet an ex-detroiter anywhere often one of the first things out of their mouths id 'I'd move back there but....). I thinks it similar...

Best Luck, Mikey.

A artist friend of mine here in S.F. moved back to Detroit in 2001 [[4th St in the New Center area to be exact) for it's cheap rent and small yet thriving artist community. He...

You should read the book, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. Basically what he describes is Detroit as it is now [[de)evolving. Great read, well written and well researched and not all bad news.

Gristok, thanks for the great video and info on S.F. Fox Theatre. The tower and plaza they put up in it's place [[and named after the old theatre) has created a wind tunnel that is the windiest place...

My ties with the city were severed with my parents divorce in the early eighties. My father, who lived in Cadillac Square, first moved to Houston and then to the Florida Keys. After finishing law...

At a recent Hanukkah party with my girlfriend's family I was discussing with one of her cousins [[who I later found out taught Jewish studies) about the similarities between our 2 cultures, Jews and...

My father was Robert Corace. His law partner was Kenneth Webb. I think they had there offices there from the early 70s to early 80s. Before then he worked at the Penobscot

A couple other things...