cc: Germantown Neighborhood Association
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.
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.