As Great Lakes plummet, towns try to save harbors
Much of its tax base comes from expensive waterfront homes owned by summer residents who come for the boating and fishing.www.thespectrum.com
The Collapse of Black Wealth
But Prince George's County was distinct: It was one of the few places—like Southfield, Michigan, outside of Detroit; Warrensville Heights, Ohio, outside of Cleveland; and DeKalb County, Georgia, outside of Atlanta—that grew wealthier as it became ...galesburgplanet.com
More Americans Moving to Dallas Than Anywhere Else
Kotkin concludes that "expensive, over-regulated and dense metropolitan areas" are still in decline and "lower-cost, less regulated and generally less dense regions" -- the "opportunity cities" like Dallas -- remain ascendent.blogs.dallasobserver.com
Detroit firm aims to use shipping containers for Midtown residences
But backers of such projects say that it's a good way to recycle empty containers that stack up in port cities around the world because shippers find it too expensive to send them back empty to China or other ports of origin. If successful, the ...www.freep.com
Freep Coverage of "Luxury Urban" Birmingham Condo Makes Us Very Sad for ...
Note to the staff behind the Freep column Michigan House Envy: just because a condo is expensive, does not make it awesome.detroit.curbed.com
Proposal 1, Michigan's Emergency Manager Law, In Danger Of Being Scrapped ...
Michigan's controversial emergency manager law appears to be in trouble with 43% of Michigan voters ready to scrap it in a referendum on Tuesday's ballot and just 35% wanting to keep it, a Detroit Free Press/WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) poll shows. Another 18% ...www.huffingtonpost.com
INSIGHT-Sandy shows hospitals unprepared when disaster hits home
"If you asked me the one city in America that has its act together, I would have said New York. That tells you how much trouble we're in in Dayton and Detroit and Sacramento." For most hospitals ... For hospital administrators trying to keep their ...www.reuters.com
Sandy-torn northeast deals with more wind, water
A damage estimate of even $50 billion total would make Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history, behind Hurricane Katrina.www.freep.com
Pre-Thanksgiving Council Pre-Heats Oven
Margaret Parker introduced herself as co-owner of Downtown Home & Garden with her husband, Mark Hodesh. She noted that she'd chaired the Ann Arbor public art commission for many ..... Postema then argued that the Detroit case had no binding effect on ...annarborchronicle.com
The Ten Markets With The Most Empty Houses
"They're expensive and difficult to build in." At the other ... The plan would augment similar initiatives by Mayor Dave Bing, which have already led to the demolition of 4,200 homes in the past three years, according to the Detroit Free Press. Among ...247wallst.com
Luxury car makers lure customers with lavish, personal experiences
Counting the army of chefs, waiters, valet-parking attendants, security guys with wires connected to their earpieces, and the woman rolling cigars during the cocktail hour, it's an expensive way to sell cars. But for luxury automakers, such events ...www.freep.com
The Kitchen That Ate the House
"The hierarchy of the home is changing," says Mick De Giulio, a Chicago-based designer who is currently working on a 1,500-square-foot kitchen in a client's roughly 5,000-square-foot Detroit Lakes, Minn., weekend home. .... New York-based real-estate ...online.wsj.com
Statewide issues on ballot in Ohio, Michigan
Supporters contend Proposal 4 would rectify that situation, by amending the constitution to, among other things, allow in-home care workers to bargain collectively with MQ3C, require the agency to provide training for in-home care workers, create a ...www.laprensatoledo.com
Brian Dickerson: Election proved money alone can't buy you victory
Even Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun's herculean campaign on behalf of Proposal 6, his brazen effort to sandbag the construction of a rival publicly owned span across the Detroit River, seems to have been for naught. In the final two ...www.freep.com
Dear Marlins: This longtime fan is trading you for another team
Your entire organization is being traded for a new club, which houses many of your former players - the Detroit Tigers.sports.yahoo.com
The Mike Duggan Interview: 'I Expect To Raise Expectations'
On October 31, Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan, who is in the midst of 90-day a self-described "listening campaign," sat down with Deadline Detroit to discuss his mayoral prospects and what needs to be done to fix the city. We hope to sit down ...www.deadlinedetroit.com
Obama's Presidency and Re-Election
Barack Obama has won re-election in what turned out to be the most expensive election in the US history. ... Again former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's career unravelled in 2008 after he lied about having an affair with a city official named ...allafrica.com
An uneasy economy, and those living through it
The days of $300-a-month house rentals, when people's pickups were more expensive than their homes, are over. "When this area was settled 100 or more years ago, there were people who took a chance and moved out here," he said.www.huffingtonpost.com
On election day, politics further divide a broken town
Flint, Michigan, with its abandoned houses and battered economy, has taken the brunt of the U.S. economic downturn. But election politics are getting its ... Donald Kemp, a General Motors Corp. employee in Flint, Michigan, carries a flag at a ...www.haaretz.com
In the States
The party also appeared very likely to pick up seats in the Congressional delegation, and to be on the verge of picking up a two-thirds majority in both houses of the California Legislature, which would allow Democrats to increase taxes without any ...elections.nytimes.com
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