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Today Atlantic Magazine posted a photo series on 1940's Detroit.
The pictures induces but not limited to ,
World War II
The race riot of 1943
Sojourners Truth Projects
Check them out,...

Bill McMachen a former owner of the MacRay Harbor, bought every tax-foreclosed home in Macomb County. A total of 650 homes for about $4.5 million dollars. The Free Press has the story,
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9 year old Joshua Smith made national headlines by opening a lemonade stand because, he was disturbed by Detroit's finances. This story ran in the Free Press on tuesday, here is it is on the USA...

Today is the People Movers 25th birthday, it open in July 1987. Today is the last day for special events and deals around downtown to celebrate the people movers 25th birthday.
Here a link to Neal...

This article by Karen Damas, explores the question of how to balance the lines between the suburban and urban population identities. She writes,

From the Detroit News, ...

Kwame Kilpatrick is soon going to release a docu-film named "The Real Kwame Kilpatrick" made by sister Ayanna Kilpatrick Ferguson. In this film you will "know" the real Kilpatrick. It will show the...

Can you imagine what will Detroit will look like if, it had Chicago's rail system. Well here's a map of Chicago's L and Merta system on Metro Detroit,...

Federal prosecutors have recommended that Conyear should at least get 46-57 months in jail,


http://freep.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100308037/1318/Conyers-recommended-sentence-46-57-months

Here is the M1 rail website,
http://www.m-1rail.com/

Mayor Bing will use census as a call for change.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703503804575083781073108438.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks#project%3DCENSUS1001%26articleTabs%3Darticle

I thought this artilce will have been posted by now. In Thurday's Free Press,

Walmart offers job training via DPS


http://www.freep.com/article/20100211/NEWS01/100211049/1001/news

Thoughts?

Back in the 1960's many Black families in and around Detroit
forced from thier homes. after 40 years
Sallie Sanders returns home to
settle one of the longest-running cases of housing...

Michmatters, Yes it is true. Most cites who have both pro hockey and pro basketball, for the most part share thier arenas.
For example NYC,Boston,Atlanta,Chicago,Toronto,DC,Philadelphia teams...

Sad news relating to Yamasaki architecture firm. It is closing down due to bad debts,
http://www.freep.com/article/20100108/BUSINESS06/100108030/1320/World-Trade-Center-design-firm-to-close

Somerset Collection owner buys former Kmart headquarters

Story here,
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I love the changing banners Detroit Yes has. I have a question on two of those banners,
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo52/sg9018/ban.jpg and...

Sam Riddle was JUST arrested in alleged domestic assault.
The Detroit Free Press has a update,
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the Detroit News has great pictures of the Hudsons' store over the years, even when it closed,
http://multimedia.detnews.com/pix/photogalleries/historygallery/rvm_hudson/index.html

The Metro Detroit festival is moving from Pontiac to Royal Oak in 2010.Pontiac wanted a $100,000 fee from the festival to host.
Link to story,...

Also Fanckn is going to talk on GMA on Dec 8.

The Free Press has a editorial with mayor Bing on his goals for the city.
http://www.freep.com/article/20091129/OPINION01/911290423/1322/Bing-says-rebuilding-Detroit-is-20-year-task

The Free press has a another great artilce on ideas to make over Cobo Center. the Regional authority is open to plans for radical change. The Free Press made a fantasy idea of the news Cobo Center....

The Free press has a great story on how Kansas City and Nashville revived thier stations and it chould be a models for Michigan Central Station. Story comes with video....

Someone yesterday posted video from the J. L. Hudson Thanksgiving Parade in 1962. this video was the CBS broadcast of the parade.
J. L. Hudson Thanksgiving Parade ...

The Detroit News has a very interesting news story about how, temporary shops can enliven retailing in detroit; due to short timimg and possable hours....