Detroit

An 'Entrepreneurial Seedling' Sprouts In Detroit

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:22:00 +0000

Detroit is littered with empty warehouses — more than 7,000, by one estimate. They've become skeletons of the city's industrial past.

But not this warehouse, where Jennifer Blake is feeding quilted fabric through a sewing machine. She's making a coat. Fashioned with Velcro fastenings, it has a sleeping bag that slips out on the bottom, and is made of recycled car parts, she says.

Blake is one of a half-dozen women doing this in a sunny corner on the second floor of a 30,000-square-foot warehouse not far from downtown Detroit.

Mobile Clinic Looks Out For Detroit's Homeless

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:29:00 +0000

A new program in Detroit is targeting chronically homeless people who do not seek out medical help. A mobile medical team visits the homeless on their turf and aggressively follows up with these patients to help get them the medicine and care they need.

Can Detroit Return To Its Former Glory?

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:02:00 +0000

The newly appointed emergency financial manager of Detroit begins the Herculean task Monday of turning the once bustling capital of the car business back from the brink of bankruptcy.

Though Detroit still has its cultural centers, architectural gems, funky restaurants and packed sporting events downtown, the city has suffered an urban blight that has slowly eaten away at its neighborhoods.

"Detroit has become a ghost town," says Russ Wilson, who has lived in Detroit for all of his 47 years.

Detroit Is 'Olympics Of Restructuring,' New Emergency Manager Says

Mark Memmott — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:40:00 +0000

Kevyn Orr, "a high-powered Washington, D.C., lawyer and University of Michigan graduate who worked on Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy restructuring," has been given the job of straightening out the city of Detroit's desperate financial mess, the Detroit Free Press writes.

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Former Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick Convicted On Corruption Charges

Mark Memmott — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:20:00 +0000

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once a rising star in the Democratic Party, was convicted in a Detroit federal court Monday on a variety of corruption-related charges.

Here's how Michigan Radio sums up the news:

"The federal government has won its RICO [racketeering] case against Kwame Kilpatrick and his longtime contractor friend Bobby Ferguson.