As Detroit is wrecked by recession and economic difficulty, a new face of homelessness is emerging.
Posted 12.08.2009 | Impact
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hunger is spreading while the number of homeless families is increasing as a result of the recession and other factors, according ...
Huffington Post | Carlos Cagin | Posted 12.06.2009 | Business
Need a cheap home? Just call the FDIC. During the housing crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company took over thousands of failed banks' soure...
AP | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
NEW YORK - Porsche Cars North America Inc. said Tuesday that its November sales increased 18 percent compared to the same month last year on stronger ...
forbes.com | Reihan Salam, | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Just as the roughly $3 trillion spent on the former East Germany didn't stave off economic collapse, federal bailouts won't bring back Detroit. As Mic...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
DETROIT — At Kevin Haner's construction company in Las Vegas, three of the four Dodge Ram pickup trucks are starting to get a little old. He may...
Posted 12.06.2009 | Home
Follow the latest in Detroit LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets. Do you know a tweeter w...
AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
DETROIT — A deal for General Motors Co. to sell Saab to a specialty carmaker has collapsed, leaving the storied Swedish brand born from jets in ...
Bill Mann | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
Several polls have shown recently that even the most popular radio talk-show hosts who trade in politics on their shows would never get elected to public office. Take it from Dave Ross.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
DETROIT — The U.S. auto industry will recover only a little next year, weighed down by high unemployment and other troubles that will continue t...
Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
In this week of Harold Washington's death, 22 years ago, I can't help but think of Harold and Michael -- together. In this time of thanksgiving, what can we learn from two lives cut too short?
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amou...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, leaving...
Melanie Duppins | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
This Tuesday, November 3, citizens of metro Detroit will flock to the polls to determine whether Mayor Dave Bing will stay in office, or yield his position to accountant Tom Barrow.
Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact
Last night was the first of several planned Angels Nights in Detroit, where volunteers walk and drive the streets looking to report suspicious fires. ...
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a ...
Tom Matlack | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
The Shocking Barack bloggers wanted to deliver their scooters to the President at the White House. Only one problem: apparently he wasn't expecting company.
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.
Wall Street Journal | DAN FITZPATRICK and DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
The U.S. government is likely to inject $2.8 billion to $5.6 billion of capital into the Detroit company, on top of the $12.5 billion that GMAC has re...
AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
DETROIT — A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw a...
Yahoo! News | Kevin Krolicki | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
On the auction block in Detroit: almost 9,000 homes and lots in various states of abandonment and decay from the tidy owner-occupied to the burned-out...
AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
ASSOCIATED PRESS, BY YURI KAGEYAMA: TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underl...
Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Raising a big family was tough for my parents. Feeding eleven people on an auto-workers income meant everything my parents did required effort and creativity.
Chris Savage | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Detroiters converged on Cobo Hall last Wednesday to claim federal aid, giving Rush Limbaugh a chance to mock "Obama's America."
Mark Horvath | Posted 12.11.2009 | Impact