Fashion alert. Trend-watchers are reporting that 2013 luggage-makers are going retro replacing vinyl and nylon with carpet.

But, hey, that bomb was be lobbed against Bing and he survived it.

What a whacky build up to 2013. I just don't get a Duggan candidacy.

Did I miss some populist ground swell of support with supporters chanting his name?

Does he have some magic bullet that we can't see that can overcome the core contradiction that the City of Detroit does not and cannot have the revenue to continue as long as it is stuck caring for almost all of the region's poor with all the high insurance, crime, homelessness, beggary, middle-class flight, blight and more that comes with it?

Fieger? Fah-get-about-it.

Oddly enough the best option might be to elect a Republican and then let the Republicans in Lansing and nationally fall over themselves to throw money at Detroit to make it succeed. Bob Blackwell pulled that ploy in Highland Park in 70's with some success. Of course, he took his 'commission' as did son later.