http://detnews.com/article/20110912/METRO01/109120339

In honesty, only one person proposed the idea of all the Pointes merging into one city, perhaps meaning in Macomb County.

Lower taxes! That seems weird to me. After all, we had this debate about Grosse Pointe Schools being "schools of choice" and I recall a number of GP residents proudly declaring that they pay high taxes for excellence in services.

So why the haggling over county taxes? Might it be because GP residents resent having to pay taxes that benefit Wayne County in general? Perhaps the racial makeup is an issue here? [[The article does not mention race.)

And then there's a desire to gerrymander themselves out of a Democratic county. One GPS resident says, "We don't have a voice politically. We have not voted Democrat for years and years and we get dragged in."

This is regionalism in reverse. Or "home rule" run amok. How the hell are we ever going to get a unified city and reinvest in our central city with suburban secessionists salivating over a merger with the boonies?