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Legacy costs – debt, pensions, retiree health care – consume 42.5 percent of Detroit's revenue, and are headed to 64 percent by 2017. Detroit would effectively exist to sustain its retired workforce and creditors, with little left to serve its residents.
Detroit, which needs all the jobs it can get, has not been very welcoming of two recent ventures that have brought jobs and commerce to the city. This is unsustainable at a time when the city itself is broke.
An oil sands byproduct, petroleum coke, has brought more business to the city's waterfront. An industrial center in the Motor City's heyday, the Detroit River today is pocked with empty buildings and weed–choked loading platforms.
Syria is a tragedy. But that is no reason to make it America's tragedy. President Barack Obama should ask: Does he want his administration to be defined by involvement in an unnecessary and unpopular no-win war, as his predecessor was?
Should small, poor school districts be forced to consolidate into nearby districts? Our readers say yes.
Detroiters weigh in on the performance of City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta, who has been MIA from City Hall lately, and emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who just unveiled his plan to fix Detroit's finances and reinvest in the city.
School teachers know this: They are the most important factor in a student's success, outside the home. And, as in any profession, not everyone is equally talented or motivated.
If the tide of the War on Terror is receding, why this vast, ever expanding NSA dragnet whose only justification is an outside threat? Which is it, Mr. President? Tell it straight. We are a nation of grown-ups. We can make choices.
Aside from questions about the legality, constitutionality, ethical propriety and necessity of the federal government's intrusion into the Internet and phone records of untold millions of Americans, two things about the recent National Security Agency con
Where's Kwame K? No, not that one. We know that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is locked securely away in Milan prison awaiting sentencing on his federal corruption conviction.
Why are gas prices so high? Costly regulations are a big part of it.
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Recent governmental scandals may result in the worst possible outcome for President Obama -- loss of faith in government as an agent of good.
Paul W. Smith offers a special look at a special man.
The corruption-riddled Detroit employee pension funds should be merged into the state retirement system to protect retiree assets from further abuse. The funds ...
One was the first black person elected to the Senate since Reconstruction. One was a groundbreaking voice for civil rights, another for the environment. One ...
The automobile stands as an enduring symbol of mobility and opportunity in America — and of innovation that's at the core of our nation's economic strength and ...
Re: Darren Nichols' June 13 report,
Re: Melissa Burden's June 5 column, 'Dan Akerson: Automotive titan builds a city with Habitat': Melissa Burden's profile of Dan Akerson paints the General ...
The Obama administration sees no limit on its presidential powers. It bends the Constitution to get and do what it wants. So why wouldn't we worry that it ...
There are many Detroiters, young and old, who must have the opportunity to participate in the revival. The residents of the many neighborhoods — who are the ...
As a growing number of districts drown in deficits, more local education officials will face tough and even drastic choices. School boards must consider ...
A judge's ruling that Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan can't be on the Detroit mayoral ballot because he filed his petition signatures too soon cheats ...
Michigan can't have a budget with a deficit and we definitely can't print more money if we get in a jam. Sound familiar? It should, because it's a ...
The House GOP-passed budget falls short on school funding. We must do far more to see that our students get the education they deserve. Education funding is ...
The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century's ...
More than 180 non-native species have become established in the Greak Lakes, with a number classified as invasive. Aquatic invasive species are responsible for ...
Jason Vines I'm reminded of Hoffa Jr.'s anti-tea party admonition last year when campaigning for President Obama in Detroit.
Tom Watkins Gov. Snyder continues to pluck pages from Machiavelli's play book almost daily to Restructure, Reform and Reinvent Michigan.
Bill Johnson The Detroit event is less about the commemoration of King’s struggle for America, and more about the self-serving NAACP and UAW.
Nolan Finley Why would anyone give a federal agency caught in an outrageous abuse of its considerable power even more authority to meddle in the lives of Americans? There’s no justifiable reason....
Where's Kwame K? No, not that one. We know that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is locked securely away in Milan prison awaiting sentencing on his federal corruption conviction. - 06/16/2013
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