GPP and their Farmers Market smack dab in Kercheval.

[Cliffy]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the iron spike driven through the heart of regionalism.

Except when it involves Detroit and then the white people are stealing the "jewels" even though half the people don't pay their water bill.

[cjd]

Until they stopped the practice, Ft Lauderdale city cops used to take panhandlers out into the middle of the Everglades and dump them. After a few nights with the alligators, the vagrants would decide they needed a more friendly venue.

Hermod
What a novel idea, wouldn't work here in Detroit as we have no Everglades or Alligators.

Leave them in Detroit, maybe the pike will eat them.

[Detroitnerd]

Except when it involves Detroit and then the white people are stealing the "jewels" even though half the people don't pay their water bill.

Ah, but you see, you don't just impale regionalism, you BLAME the other side as you do it. Therefore, you can dust off your hands and relax with a clear conscience after a day's work.

HOW DARE these extremely poor people living in a hellhole of crime and poverty not surrender their few assets to communities of means to administer? That's REAL regionalism. This FAKE regionalism is the very idea that we, who have significant assets, significant wealth, and significant privilege, have anything to learn from lower-class people.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by e.p.3 Your profile says you're a Detroit resident. With all due respect, it is none of your business or concern what GPP government does.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the iron spike driven through the heart of regionalism.

When, exactly, did Detroit let GPP have a say in its affairs with a mind toward 'regionalism'? Or is this the sort of thing where each side says, "Thank you but you go first...."? At least the suburbs pay [[in an ever-increasing amount) for their share of the DWSD. What part of the GPP farmer's market did Detroit offer to pay for in order to regionalize it?

Rethinking all of this...maybe the white/suburbanites were the pike in this whole scenario and Coleman Young was the one that put up the glass. I know plenty of suburbanites that are still afraid to come downtown.

...That pike analogy isn't so bad now.

[Detroitnerd]

When, exactly, did Detroit let GPP have a say in its affairs with a mind toward 'regionalism'? Or is this the sort of thing where each side says, "Thank you but you go first...."? At least the suburbs pay [[in an ever-increasing amount) for their share of the DWSD. What part of the GPP farmer's market did Detroit offer to pay for in order to regionalize it?

We don't really have a political framework for cooperation that everybody can leap aboard. But when you're the more economically powerful partner, and given the enshrinement of Home Rule in the state Constitution, you don't have to have a political framework to affect what happens with your poorer neighbor. Don't tell me that the poor benighted residents of the Pointes are brimming over with good intentions and fair offers of help for Detroit. The posture is one that's defensive, closed, and filled with fear and loathing. Hissy fits about how Detroiters have no right to meddle in the Grosse Pointes or how Detroiters won't simply give up a system they spent billions of dollars building are all part of the self-righteous bluster that disguises what I take to be a very real feeling of personal and community shame.

You think you're funding DWSD with your hike? Those rates are determined very carefully, and DWSD has been trimmed down after a close look from an outside consultant. More likely the hike is so big because it's paying for the aging infrastructure of an area with widely spaced properties? Anyway, that money is going to pay for exactly what you're buying: infrastructure and labor to provide water and sewerage. I assure you, none of your money for water and sewerage is going to any of the extremely poor people of Detroit who need it so desperately.

[bailey]

Just an fyi/threadjack... Atwater in the Park opened up this weekend. http://on.freep.com/1jP57ub All the burning crosses and high powered search lights at Wayburn really keep the fish-flies and mosquitoes away from the outside seating area.

[Honky Tonk]

Have they tried sending in the Nazis with Cutters?