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Do people here use "apartment list"? This ranking is from searches on their [[and only their) website. I had never heard of their site until just now.

Don't know what the rule is about sharing a story from behind a paywall. This is a nice travel article about four days in the D. An excerpt:

IN ITS MIDCENTURY boom years, when Motown ruled the...

Can I add some facts to this discussion?

https://www.smartbus.org/Portals/0/Board%20Minutes/FY18/SMART%20FY2019%20Budget%20Book.pdf

Let's go to the videotape! [[Old timers remember Warner Wolf,...

It covers a good deal of Detroit.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mshda/MSHDA-Opportunity-Zone-Prosperity-Region-10_616755_7.pdf

This will be a really, really big deal when it gets going. If...

Interesting fact: in Michigan, road expenditures must be evenly allocated across the state on a per-mile basis. That is, an interstate in the UP gets the same funding as an interstate in Wayne...

This study has quite a few flaws, not least of which they do not include pension payments as a part of "school funding." I don't know another industry where fringe benefits are not a part of labor...

This is HUGE news for Detroit, for a few reasons:

1. First, it shows that the "Detroit stigma" is no longer an impediment to financial services companies locating here. The unspoken presumption...

WSJ [[sorry for the cut-and-paste, but linking wasn't working)

Detroit Sees Big Demand in Muni Market ReturnFor the first time since its bankruptcy, the Motor City issues stand-alone general...

The "received more votes for the house" is really, really bad math. That depends entirely on contested races elsewhere on the ballot, and doesn't take into account undervoting, which is prevalent...

In order to have a "fair" system as you described, you would have to pack all like-minded voters in to individual districts. This is precisely what we have now.

It gets worse when you want some of...

Exactly, and my point is that "fair" can mean two diametrically opposite results with two diametrically opposite methodologies.

No question the top map [[which was the original map) is more gerrymandered. But again, what's the goal? Having a map with more races that are competitive, or having an overall legislative body that...

In case I wasn't clear, packed districts are to the benefit of BOTH parties, independent of who has what percentage of the population. I can demonstrate with a piece of paper, scissors, and some...

The PA Supreme Court-imposed map was NOT on non-partisan lines. The Court is a partisan institution [[like ours, but worse), and they packed and cracked to flip the script.

A few things:

Good first pass, but...
This would be legally challenged in a NY minute, as it breaks up Detroit into pie pieces. Challengers would allege that the number of majority-minority...

Yes, but you cite [[d), and the proposal specifically requires the criteria to be judged in order. I dont think you could overlook [[c) to get to [[d).

And yes, this district is packed, as are the...

Well, actually, the task is somewhat more complicated. Under Michigan law [[pre-Prop 2) "communities of interest" were an important criteria. They continue as such under Prop 2.

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In Michigan, electors are first-vote-bound. Whether their identity is partisan or non-partisan wouldn't matter, legally, unless there was a 2nd vote at convention. The last time was Reagan-Ford 76?

This article is, with all respect to the author, in my opinion, stupid.

First of all, by the description and all intentions, the LCA was supposed to be the anchor of the area. That anchor opened...

This is beyond dumb. This is one of the behaviors that got Detroit into trouble in the first place. "Poor customer service"? C'mon. Detroit, you should do better in your choice of representatives.

"Core" isn't a term either. Let me assure that the people that live in the Gold Coast don't say they live in Lincoln Park, the people that live in Lincoln Park don't say they live in Lakeview or...

I take it from your confusion about Chicago that you've never lived there.

Lincoln Park is not "downtown" Chicago. They are very different things.

Yes, Lincoln Park has more people than the...

I financed the first "urban" Home Depot in Chicago. Some facts:

1. It wasn't downtown. It was in Lincoln Park, which is densely population with wealthy residents.
2. If I recall correctly, it's...

There is, as some have noted, a virtually complete disconnect between local tax base and school funding. DPSCD gets most of its funding from state foundation allowance and Title I [[federal) funding....

These are estimates, and I'm not sure how the estimates work in the new development downtown.
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