Charlie might be gone from the Detroit News, but he continues to report on Detroit for a national audience. In this interesting story, he discusses the death of Aiyana Stanley and other Detroiters, mainly young ones; scrapping; Geoffrey Fieger; graduation rates; Henry Ford; the Packard plant; fire fighters; Warren Evans; Charlie's childhood; the morgue; A & E and migration to Detroit, among other things.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010...-jones-detroit