http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...01203#36598364
Wow, this is great. It sounds to me like the Mayor Bing cares and is trying to restore Detroit. I appreciated all he had to say. He has my support! Go Mayor Bing.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...01203#36598364
Wow, this is great. It sounds to me like the Mayor Bing cares and is trying to restore Detroit. I appreciated all he had to say. He has my support! Go Mayor Bing.
I really liked the interview. Mayor Bing came across as "real", and he came across as being practical and honest.
I really liked the interview, too. I was a bit taken aback and surprised by his comment that there are certain parts of Detroit that even he will not go to. Even if he actually thinks that, it would have been better if he had not shared that in the interview. Fortunately, it does not seem like any media outlets have picked up on that quote. I could imagine the headlines on Yahoo!: "Detroit Mayor: I Won't Go To Certain Parts of the City."
By the time the press gets it it will be "detroit mayor afraid to leave office without bodyguards"
He is - He claimed that he would give up his EPU, but that the "DPD recommended against it" - Sound familiar? Can you say "Red Navigator"? Bing cares about Detroit about as much as Kwame does.
I thought the interview was very informative and I truly believe the Mayor has a good plan. However, the one thing I thought interesting was about the mention of relocating folks in the neighborhood. To me, that certainly was a bit much to swallow. I was raised in Detroit on 35th Street 3 blocks from Michigan Avenue. Every now and then I go there to see what is happening. Even though it really does look like a bomb blast cleared the areas where many houses and my Ellis Elementary School once stood, it is very clean and appears to be ready for rebuilding. However, there are plenty of folks living in the area. Their yards are very well kept, and quite frankly, it is beginning to look up around there. I cannot imagine asking those folks to uproot and leave.
Does anyone know where the area is that the Mayor is speaking about relocating folks?
Bing is losing credibility, despite his expert capabilities as a spokesperson.
He was going to be a one-term mayor. Now he says he's open to more terms.
He was going to get rid of the EPU. Conveniently, the DPD advised him to keep it.
He said he didn't like the incinerator. May 1 is the deadline and now he's talking about using scarce Detroit tax dollars to buy a piece of it to run it into the future.
Look under Bing's coat-tails and you will find the same merry band of Detroit administrators. And I believe they are going to ride this figurehead for all he's worth.
I sure hope you are wrong. What do I know, other than what I hear them say? One thing I do know is this: I could always feel an undercurrent about Kwami from the get go. I want to hope in someone that has a genuine love for Detroit and wants to make it better.Bing is losing credibility, despite his expert capabilities as a spokesperson.
He was going to be a one-term mayor. Now he says he's open to more terms.
He was going to get rid of the EPU. Conveniently, the DPD advised him to keep it.
He said he didn't like the incinerator. May 1 is the deadline and now he's talking about using scarce Detroit tax dollars to buy a piece of it to run it into the future.
Look under Bing's coat-tails and you will find the same merry band of Detroit administrators. And I believe they are going to ride this figurehead for all he's worth.
When I lived in the city, it was good to be there and even now, I love going back home. I do not deny that it has changed, but it is still home and we all need to chin up and do what we can to make it a better place to live.
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