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Gingrich calls Detroit a disaster, draws ire
Detroit News | July 31, 2007 | Jennifer Mrozowski and Tony Gonzalez

Posted on 07/31/2007 11:26:37 AM PDT by CutePuppy

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bluezone; cities; detroit; education; gingrich; michigan; newt; union
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Another political family like the Fords of Tennessee and the Landrieus of Louisiana, presiding over the deterioration of their constituencies while lining their pockets!


61 posted on 07/31/2007 12:13:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Hey, mother and son have the other cut of Detroit, Mayor Kwame and Big Mama Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.


62 posted on 07/31/2007 12:15:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Let me know how much mileage you’re getting with your Hitler analogy.


63 posted on 07/31/2007 12:15:32 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: Borges
Yep, although the company itself is in the process of "retooling" and may be taken private.

When I lived in Uptown, you had some nice high rises on the lake, while the rest of the nabe was dominated by SROs and subdivided frame houses. My 275 sq. ft. studio was in an old hotel that was built right before the nabes peak (in the 1920s) and was right around the corner from the Green Mill jazz club.

64 posted on 07/31/2007 12:15:59 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Clemenza

That would be the Joe Lewis Arenia.


65 posted on 07/31/2007 12:17:58 PM PDT by 70th Division (If we loose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: Chuck Dent

Same can be said for my father’s old neighborhood in Newark, which is the ONLY one in said city NOT to be turned into a Detroit-like ghetto. First the Portuguese in the 1960s-80s, and now the Brazilians and Ecuadorians, have built which is at least a vibrant community, unlike the rest of Newark, where the only businesses are Chinese take-outs, check cashing shops, and the local crack dealers.


66 posted on 07/31/2007 12:18:02 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Rummyfan

Of course, the Fords are in decline, especially with the chronically severe old lush Auntie Ophelia as their sole prominent elected official, in the State Senate (and probably the Landrieus, too — especially if we can dump Mitch as Lt Gov this year). Ironically, the winner of Junior’s seat in Memphis is an extremely far-left Jewish White Socialist (who makes Junior look like a Conservative). He may only last a single term because of the demographics. However, those wanting to run him out of office in the Black community can’t decide whether to hate him because he’s White, or because he’s a JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.


67 posted on 07/31/2007 12:20:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Clemenza
Ever been to Wicker Park? Some of those homes from the 1920s and 1930s are spectacular.
68 posted on 07/31/2007 12:22:43 PM PDT by Borges
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To: HockeyPop

Awwww...someone’s a wittle gwumpy!


69 posted on 07/31/2007 12:24:31 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: ravensandricks

They can bulldoze all they want as long as they leave Nathan’s. And the ballpark.


70 posted on 07/31/2007 12:30:05 PM PDT by JoeA (JoeA / The defintion of insantity is repeating an action and expecting a different result.)
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To: CutePuppy
Thanks for the posting.

And the reason that I've chosen to focus on creating a nationwide movement is precisely your question. I think we ought to challenge the Detroit school board. We ought to challenge the Detroit city council. We ought to challenge the Michigan legislature. We ought to challenge the governor of Michigan.

(Sigh) Newt, our govenor is a socialist Democrat woman from Canada, and a joke. Our legislature can't agree on a lunch menu and the democrats want to inflict HUGE tax increases to pay for a $1.2 BILLION budget defecit next year. As for the Detroit city council -- their titles are synominous with failure.

71 posted on 07/31/2007 12:34:37 PM PDT by Kieri (Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)
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To: Borges

Yikes! Cicero is a hell hole.


72 posted on 07/31/2007 12:39:45 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: CutePuppy

It’s a disaster. Totally delivered into the hands of the left which has ruined it and prepared it to become a warm, welcoming home for the death cult.


73 posted on 07/31/2007 12:42:17 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: fieldmarshaldj
What’s the real shame is all that incredible 1920s era architecture (high-rises) that are crumbling. If only that could be saved...

That is being worked on.

The Book-Cadillac Hotel is in the process of a huge restoration which includes condos as well as hotel rooms. They've reconstructed the copper zigurats on the roof and are preserving as much of the original detail as possible.

I do worry about the copper. Street value is so high there will be druggies trying to scale the building to strip it off.

Article and pictures of the restoration are here:

Detroit Landmark Hotel gets Crowning Touches

74 posted on 07/31/2007 12:43:16 PM PDT by Kieri (Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)
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To: Borges

We pay for it with our taxes that have increased 300% in 6 years. M-Park went 1/4 billion over budget. The Cloudgate, aka the “bean”, alone was a 25 million dollar boondoggle originally budgeted @ 9 million. Wait until they go for the Olympics here. Who do you think will be paying for that? I’m moving before it happens.


75 posted on 07/31/2007 12:44:45 PM PDT by yobid
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To: pissant

Cicero isn’t a part of Chicago.


76 posted on 07/31/2007 12:45:25 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Sudetenland
Isn’t this the place that the school board voted to buy every student an I-Pod so that no one would be disadvantaged in learning???

Worse. It was the democratic "leadership" in the STATE house!

77 posted on 07/31/2007 12:45:31 PM PDT by Kieri (Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)
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To: Borges

Well wherever that dividing line is, I’ve been there a few times. And its a swamp.


78 posted on 07/31/2007 12:46:45 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: HockeyPop

Kwame Kilpatrick, the Detroit Mayor talks a good talk, unfortunately, as opposed to Coleman Young, one of his predessors, who was extremely good at being corrupt, Kwame is extremely bad at his corruption.

He keeps getting caught. Mostly by one TV reporter who got beaten up one too many times by the mayor’s security staff. He has pretty much devoted his career to exposing Kwame’s many problems and coverups.


79 posted on 07/31/2007 12:50:04 PM PDT by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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80 posted on 07/31/2007 12:50:54 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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