Motown To Tree Town

cc: Germantown Neighborhood Association

(This is satire, btw)

Comments thread has interesting sample of ideas from locals on where to go & what to do.  

rubinville:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present a man imploding. #RickPerry

Imported from Auburn Hills, Michigan” just doesn’t have the same ring, does it?
Rust Wire

The houses have deteriorated into dumps. They were dumps 50 years ago when I lived in that neighborhood as a grad student. And, the district that was proposed and studied did not qualify inder the Dept. of Interior rules. When Heritage Row was an option, with Mr. DePerry’s plan, it needed eight votes to pass. Those who voted against it were Carsten Hohnke and Mike Anglin (Ward 5), Sabra Briere (Ward 1) and Steve Kunselman (Ward 3). These are the Council members to blame, if, as it seems, you are looking to blame someone.

You could find-and-replace ‘Cleveland’ with ‘Detroit’ in this post & it would still be 100% accurate.

(E)xperts on Internet equality estimate that approximately 1 percent of participants write most of the comments. A standard theory holds that 90 percent of readers never comment, 9 percent comment every once in a while, and 1 percent comment incessantly…
Comments have gotten so predictably odious that Philly.com doesn’t even bother opening a comment gallery beneath some stories anymore. Warren says the good news is that anonymous commenters tend to be uniformly disgusting everywhere, not just in Philly.

(H)ow this will be interpreted by some people outside Detroit — such as in the Legislature — is that Detroiters are no more capable of running their affairs than were the racist caricatures of black legislators in Birth of a Nation…

Well, as far as running their own public school system, we don’t have much evidence to the contrary, unfortunately.  I find it hard to believe the state could do much worse at running DPS than the elected Board.

Thoughtful & honest discussion of white racial prejudice in 2nd part of Craig Ruff’s series on Michigan cities.