Notes"At this weekend's Motor City Comic Con, fans and vendors were abuzz about a police raid on Friday targeting the sale of illegal recordings."Unfurl
Notes"Many parents used the Motown Winter Blast as an opportunity to show their children the city for the first time." Now, let's see how long this lasts after the Super Bowl.Unfurl
Notes"Before demolishing the building, the city couldn't be bothered to remove these artifacts. All sorts of historically important ephemera, knowingly demolished." As if I didn't have enough reasons to despise the Super Bowl and the MayorUnfurl
Notes"We, the Public, are deeply disappointed in Wayne State University’s decision to stop the broadcast of all daytime music on WDET FM Detroit Public Radio."Unfurl
Notes"Of those who would opt to move, 59% said they would leave the state, 24% said they would move to a suburb and 13% said they would choose another city."Unfurl
Notes"Troy, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Madison Heights, Pontiac, Oak Park and Wixom won out among 31 communities that applied to be the pilot cities for the county's Wireless Oakland Project."Unfurl
Notes"What happened with the petty case fund reflects the Kilpatrick administration's philosophy: Let's have a party and let the taxpayers of Detroit pay for it"Unfurl
Notes"Michigan is far more at risk than many other states because its manufacturing-dominated culture is addicted to an entitlement mentality that has long since disappeared in other regions and industrial sectors"Unfurl
NotesSo, let me get this straight: Save-- or reconstruct-- Detroit's urbanity by tagging experiential networks and maps of it in digital spaces? And graffiti tags are analogous to XML tags? Somehow this will make people want to work/live/play in the city?Unfurl
Notes"...the populations of such hot spots as Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle and New Orleans still lag far behind that of Detroit." Huh, you know I never realized Detroit still has more people.Unfurl
Notes"More than $395,000 of the $717,000 the foundation raised in 2002 and 2003 ... was paid to Ayanna Kilpatrick, the mayor's sister, first lady Carlita Kilpatrick and Lisa Cylar Miller." I wish I worked in a city run by grownups.Unfurl
Notes"A majority of the Detroit City Council wants to implement an economic development plan it commissioned for $112,000 that preaches racial isolation and rails against immigration in its bid to gain economic success for poor blacks."Unfurl
Notes"Several families remain evacuated and a stretch of 15 Mile Road remains closed Monday as a massive sinkhole continues to grow at more than one foot per hour, according to Local 4 reports." Holy crap. I used to live pretty close by there...Unfurl
Notes"Ten people were shot in an eight-hour period during the weekend in Detroit -- a number that police said was not excessive." Again, happy to be working here.Unfurl
Notes"600 Woodward a.k.a. the Vinton Building was built in 1917 by Albert Kahn. It was built for a prominent Construction company who had offices in the building, with a bank on the ground floor." Right outside my window. Every floor is empty & trashed.Unfurl
Notes"Planners' Super Bowl '06 vision: A city that's inviting after dark." Marketers mocked up lights and roofs on burnt out and abandoned buildings. Boy, I love working in Detroit.Unfurl