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Venks The problem is, what will bring people to Detroit in the numbers needed to rejuvenate the city? Well, Mary, I believe that Detroit should do what it is famous for. It should look for more...
Mary Jander Sounds like some sort of ingrained self-defeating behavior. It's tough to account for this. Aren't the right people getting to the polls? Is there a lack of suitable candidates? Is the contituency...
waltberingson It's sad, Mary. Being born and raised in Detroit(I moved to Arizona in the mid eighties), I can remember Mayor Coleman Young winning election after election even though it was common knowledge...
Mary Jander Well, the other shoe has dropped: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is found guilty by jury of many charges.
Mary Jander This just in: A former Detroit mayor will hear the verdict in his corruption trial today.
Mary Jander Agreed that Detroit's working population has untapped capabilities. As Nicole mentioned before, though, retraining is going to be vital to making Detroit work again. Manufacturing would be great...
Resurgent phoenix Tech start ups are good and productive towards the recovery of Detroit. Detroit needs to get a handle on crime! You can have the best of everything but if it is unsafe most will not stay...
euroflycars @Toby: These aircraft are based on the ram-jet principle, which has no mechanical parts except for the high-pressure fuel pump, making them light-weight and cheap to produce.Years ago the Pentagon...
tbulone IT and healthcare can certainly play a significant part in the recovery of Detroit. But I believe Detroit's greatest strength is still its manufacturing sector. It would be great to see...
Toby @euroflycars: Now I get the handle. Er...where does one start? If "rendering them captive customers of their pharma-agro-food-monopoly squatting the surrounding farmlands drained of their...
euroflycars @Toby: The gender of cities might be meaningful as a symbolic reference only, if not merely as an intellectual incentive to try hard to understand the odds and ends of urban concentrations. Assuming...
mejiac @Mary Jander, Agreed, let's just hope that city officials take advantages of the momentum being created and try to inject some new life. More so, it's a really good time to gather and have...
Mary Jander Sadly, word has it that Detroit's city government has suffered notorious corruption and incompetence. That's perhaps the saddest of all factors. Let's hope that the city's arrival at a dire crossroads...
Mary Jander Haha, Mejiac, GO GEEKS indeed! At this point, Detroit needs a multipronged strategy to survive and thrive. But as you point out, startups get things going in more ways than one. They also are typically...
Mary Jander Venks, your point that people lead to financial activity is well taken. The problem is, what will bring people to Detroit in the numbers needed to rejuvenate the city? We've seen that tech startups...
Toby @euroflycars: But does it actually mean anything..? We call boats 'she' as we do also cars, aeroplanes and balloons but they still crash. So what would this achieve..?
euroflycars "Detroit is like the patient rushed into the emergency room: Yes, it would be great if she made lifestyle changes, but you have to stabilize her first."Mary, you may think I'm kidding you, but could...
Toby I first saw Detroit on the cover of a Supremes record when I was 10. The history of the city has been a sad one and not unlike a city in NJ I lived next to for years, Newark. It sounds like fixing...
Toby I first saw Detroit on the cover of a Supremes record when I was 10. The history of the city has been a sad one and not unlike a city in NJ I lived next to for years, Newark. It sounds like fixing...
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Venks 3/12/2013 8:34:59 AM
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Venks The problem is, what will bring people to Detroit in the numbers needed to rejuvenate the city? Well, Mary, I believe that Detroit should do what it is famous for. It should look for more...
Mary Jander Sounds like some sort of ingrained self-defeating behavior. It's tough to account for this. Aren't the right people getting to the polls? Is there a lack of suitable candidates? Is the contituency...
waltberingson It's sad, Mary. Being born and raised in Detroit(I moved to Arizona in the mid eighties), I can remember Mayor Coleman Young winning election after election even though it was common knowledge...
Mary Jander Well, the other shoe has dropped: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is found guilty by jury of many charges.
Mary Jander This just in: A former Detroit mayor will hear the verdict in his corruption trial today.
Mary Jander Agreed that Detroit's working population has untapped capabilities. As Nicole mentioned before, though, retraining is going to be vital to making Detroit work again. Manufacturing would be great...
Resurgent phoenix Tech start ups are good and productive towards the recovery of Detroit. Detroit needs to get a handle on crime! You can have the best of everything but if it is unsafe most will not stay...
euroflycars @Toby: These aircraft are based on the ram-jet principle, which has no mechanical parts except for the high-pressure fuel pump, making them light-weight and cheap to produce.Years ago the Pentagon...
tbulone IT and healthcare can certainly play a significant part in the recovery of Detroit. But I believe Detroit's greatest strength is still its manufacturing sector. It would be great to see...
Toby @euroflycars: Now I get the handle. Er...where does one start? If "rendering them captive customers of their pharma-agro-food-monopoly squatting the surrounding farmlands drained of their...
euroflycars @Toby: The gender of cities might be meaningful as a symbolic reference only, if not merely as an intellectual incentive to try hard to understand the odds and ends of urban concentrations. Assuming...
mejiac @Mary Jander, Agreed, let's just hope that city officials take advantages of the momentum being created and try to inject some new life. More so, it's a really good time to gather and have...
Mary Jander Sadly, word has it that Detroit's city government has suffered notorious corruption and incompetence. That's perhaps the saddest of all factors. Let's hope that the city's arrival at a dire crossroads...
Mary Jander Haha, Mejiac, GO GEEKS indeed! At this point, Detroit needs a multipronged strategy to survive and thrive. But as you point out, startups get things going in more ways than one. They also are typically...
Mary Jander Venks, your point that people lead to financial activity is well taken. The problem is, what will bring people to Detroit in the numbers needed to rejuvenate the city? We've seen that tech startups...
Toby @euroflycars: But does it actually mean anything..? We call boats 'she' as we do also cars, aeroplanes and balloons but they still crash. So what would this achieve..?
euroflycars "Detroit is like the patient rushed into the emergency room: Yes, it would be great if she made lifestyle changes, but you have to stabilize her first."Mary, you may think I'm kidding you, but could...
Toby I first saw Detroit on the cover of a Supremes record when I was 10. The history of the city has been a sad one and not unlike a city in NJ I lived next to for years, Newark. It sounds like fixing...
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