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"Haircuts on pensions and health care" = cuts. What do you consider to be the alternative to cuts?



I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that you have no Aunts on a city union worker's...

I'm not a constitutional scholar either, but I'm pretty sure that there's nothing in the Constitution or the Declaration or John Locke's complete works or anywhere else about your rights being...

This distinction doesn't contradict my earlier point at all. A popularly elected leader--or a popularly elected legislature, or a popularly elected whatever-you-like--is capable of subverting...

You're confusing "legal" with "democratic."

And just because Snyder was elected in a democratic process [[elections, to the degree they are democratic in the United States today) doesn't mean...

3 points:

1) Just because something has been done for a long time [["a long-held tenet of muni law...") doesn't mean that it is democratic to do so. Some quick googling reveals that the legal...

Many people on this thread are misinformed about this [[as well as a lot of other things). Political contributions are not a legitimate issue here: union members already have the right to refuse to...

No, they haven't, and in any case labor law is powerless to negotiate wages and benefits in the workplace, as is amply demonstrated by the poverty wages in RTW states. If you are working on an unsafe...

You mean like justice, equality, and the dignity of work?

Throwing up three links doesn't prove anything, of course. The links above are all about

1) layoffs in a Detroit municipal agency, which strikes me as an example of budget cutting, not...

It's amazing that anyone can seriously believe that Detroit spends "outrageously." Every service has been cut for years--our parks department budget is probably less than many suburban county towns...

The only problem with this analogy is that while those women in 17th-century MA weren't actually witches, you actually are a racist.

Why do you find it hard to believe? One hears these stories all the time in Detroit, about landlords, especially absentee ones, uninterested or unmotivated in filling their spaces.

Fortunately, the only two options for talking about the city are not, in fact, "boosterish tabula rasa" and "trashing us."

That does not address the fact that the fee to Belle Isle has been defended on the grounds that it will improve Belle Isle--not just maintain it. According to the Detroit News article linked above,...

Also: the Governor's office needs to fire whatever intern made this atrocity of a photoshop rendering:


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What on earth are you talking about?

This looks bad, though. The proponents of a fee have defended it on the grounds that the fees would go towards park maintenance--now, it seems that they...

No, this isn't about race, nope, not at all.

Ooooh, let me guess what group you're in!

Here's my position: I'd like the status quo of neglected public spaces to change, in the direction of them being funded better. This would be in keeping...

Maybe you don't, but that's the [[usually left delicately unstated) rationale for the park fee from many people I've read on this board and elsewhere. Keep out the "riff-raff."

And why should the...

I agree that these are the greatest spaces in the DPL, but every time I go there I'm disappointed at how terribly utilized they are. The gallery at the top of the staircase is used for nothing other...

Scarecrow stars Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, and quite a bit of it takes place in Detroit--on the east side, I think. As I recall there are some neighborhood shots that looked like they were filmed...

Because only shitty houses are selling for $500.

No, DNerd wouldn't, I suspect. Nor did he say anything to suggest he would.

Your original post didn't say "at least Ford's not bankrupt"--it said something quite different, that the big profits...

It's actually a lousy point. Museums aren't businesses, and therefore don't have "business models." They always, everywhere, require subsidies, whether it's from the state, philanthropists, other...

We got ourselves a regular Woodward and Bernstein here, folks!