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The article talks about how to make a city with too much space and too few people modestly viable again. Detroit, y'know, was once the Boom Town of the whole world. And now it's the Bust Town. So...

There's two disposed couches by your garage. The bedbugs are free.

"It's not that Herrada is a Marxist"
No, she's an Ellenist.

And while "it's not easy being Green" I still don't know why they chose to make themselves look silly by putting her on their ticket....

Lowell, I agree with much of what you say, but there are legislators more deserving of being targeted than Tlaib if the Greens "are out to build a party, get votes and win." Better targets on...

Herrada's open letter:

Dear friends;
I am writing an open response to a letter I received from my friend, about my decision to be on the ballot for the upcoming election. The context is...

I am puzzled by the decision of the Michigan Green Party to run a candidate against State Rep Rashida Tlaib who is one of the most progressive members of a conservative legislature and whose politics...

"market wages" as used here translates to "the lowest wage and benefits package we can get someone to work for". I don't know about unions fearing that but I would say it pulls down wages for...

Thanks for the kind words... I was near Michigan & Central 'cos I volunteer at a nonprofit nearby. I've been in that area enough over the past few years that my first guess what some male looking for...

Yes. The morning of the 4th of July riding my bicycle on Michigan Avenue near Central I turned around in a parking lot when a male with a t-shirt pulled up over his face came at me. At the same...

Please do not compare Herrada to Mary Ann Mahaffey who had actual politics. Ellen's politics are not leftist [[though she does pose that way) but opportunist.

I'm not sure what anyone brings to...

Snyder said "we" [[apparently State government) are going to partner with the Chamber of Commerce to put an end to the efforts to establish a workplace ergonomic standard in Michigan to reduce strains...

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/estate/who.cfm

Scab Mitch is up there in the top 0.1% of the economy. Maybe his heirs want him to die this year.

But the race will be won by a quality fryer.

Now that we have a suburban mayor ... wouldn't it make more sense to annex suburbs like Franklin and all that good property tax than to split Detroit in micro-burbs?

"essential services" as hermod puts it are exactly the point.

Health care, public transportation, police & fire protection, education, postal service, housing ... these are essential services that...

Thanks hermod, but that's only part of the story since GM's intervention in directly disrupting interurban and urban rail transit started 14 years before the earliest date you listed.

Actually the streetcars & interurbans were destroyed by National City Lines - owned by General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum - which bought up, bought off. and shut down the...

Stash says "Burn the books!"

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
—Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor [[1821)

There is a documentary film and a book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by law professor Joel Bakan that concludes the corporate form is pathological. Like a serial...

Quote: ""Over the course of 1913, the company had to hire 963 workers for every 100 it needed to maintain on the payroll."
Moo: The difference now, they have to keep those 863 folks because of the...

Stash says: "Henry Ford was offering unheard of wages at the time, classic example of free market forces at work."

I think this refers to the $5 day.

The Ford Motor website admits this was a...

"absolutely no correlation between productivity gains and job losses."

Not having a degree in economics I spent a few minutes googling and came up with this from a UofMich professor on leave to...

Stash moos: "With this [pro-union] mentality, Detroit and Michigan are doomed."

The historically strong Michigan economy paired strong unions [[benefiting all, including non-union, workers) with a...

"You'll have to file for unemployment, he'll fight it and point to "the situation" and you'll be left scrambling."

The good news if you should qualify for unemployment even if you quit. The quit...

Where do I sign ... cos I'll vote for pretty much anyone who runs against Cheeks-Kilpatrick.

Speaking of "he's back" ... I was bicycling around downtown today and saw posters announcing Hazen...