By Mark | December 11, 2013
This Thursday night, the documentary Medora will be making its Michigan debut at Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater. The film, which is the most recent production of Found Magazine’s Davy Rothbart, is ostensibly about a small town basketball team’s seemingly impossible struggle to break a two-year losing streak. As you quickly realize when you watch […]
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The Detroit News’s Charlie LeDuff visits the Ford Visteon plant in Ypsilanti, and watches as it gets torn apart and auctioned in an article entitled, “Selling off America’s manufacturing might, a factory at a time.” Here’s how the article begins: Ypsilanti — You can now watch the liquidation of the American Dream in real time. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged automotive, Automotive Components Holdings, Charlie LeDuff, Detroit News, factory, Ford, Granholm, manufacturing, mechanical heart, Rust Belt, Schreiber, UAW, VIsteon |
