And Yet Again, the Suburbs/State Screw Detroit Over

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This is, of course, in addition to the crap about a supposedly finanacially turbulent DPS being forced to loan money to a privatized school system its competing with for students.

And yet people wonder why Detroiters are so critical of help from the suburbs/state of Michigan.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...text|FRONTPAGE

SEMCOG shifts $7M from Detroit bus service to suburbs

Detroit — Mayor Dave Bing unsuccessfully made an impassioned plea Friday for preserving $7 million in federal funds for his beleaguered Detroit Department of Transportation, but a regional group of local governments approved shifting the money to the suburban bus system.

The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments' 50-member executive committee voted to approve a change in the formula for distributing $41.2 million in federal capital allocations for bus upgrades to a 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent split favoring SMART from 65 percent to 35 percent in Detroit's favor .