A few months ago, I received a nice note from two French filmmakers, who, for some reason, had stumbled across my site and liked it. Their names were Nora Mandray and Hélène Bienvenu, and, as I’d come to learn over the course of subsequent emails, they had been living in the the area for some […]
Tag Archives: the Detroit situation
Detroit loses 25% of its population in ten short years
I don’t have time to craft a good, comprehensive post about it right now, but I wanted to at least acknowledge that the results of the 2010 Michigan census were released today, and that, among other things, it shows a huge loss of population in Detroit. I don’t think anyone expected the news to be […]
No Robocop for Detroit
Perhaps due in part to that Chrysler ad that captured everyone’s imagination during the Super Bowl , the city of Detroit is, once again, attracting national media attention. Today, there’s a feature in the Washington Post entitled, “With Detroit in dire straits, mayor invites big thinking.” Here’s a clip. …With no salvation in sight, Bing, […]
Dateline Detroit
I don’t have a functioning television, so I didn’t see last night’s Dateline special on Detroit, but I’m watching clips now on my computer, and, from what I can see, Chris Hansen and his producers did a pretty good job of it. I know some people are are up in arms today over it, claiming […]