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Ford Workers Reject Contract changes

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Gm, Wages, Cost of Living, Ford, Jobs, Cars, Cola, Automakers, Labor Costs, Hours, Chrysler, UAW Contract, Unemployment, New Contract, Increases, Labor Contract, Detroit, Uaw, Ford Contract, Auto Bailout, Business News

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, leaving...

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Detroit, Elections, and the Power to Choose

Melanie Duppins | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detroit, Education, Education Reform, Classroom, Politics News
Melanie Duppins

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.

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On Detroit's Angels Night, Volunteers Are On The Lookout For Fires

Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Detroit, Community Service, Angels Night, Arson, Volunteering, Neighborhood Watch, Volunteerism, Arson Fires, Impact News

Last night was the first of several planned Angels Nights in Detroit, where volunteers walk and drive the streets looking to report suspicious fires. ...

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Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Leader Of Radical Islam Group, Killed In Raid

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home

Read More: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Gary Leone, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Radical Islam Leader Killed, Christopher Thomas, Radical Islam Leader, Detroit, Dearborn, Imad Hamad, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Michigan, Fbi, Sunni Islam, FBI Raid, Home News

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 ...

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Shock Barack: Trick or Treat?

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Oil, Barack Obama, Electric Cars, Shocking Barack, Electric Scooter, Shocking Barack Bloggers, Scooter, The Daily Show, Health Care, Auto Executives, Brammo, Detroit, Comedy News
Tom Matlack

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.

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Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Long Ranger, Black Tooth, Brace Beemer, Atomic Bomb, Europeans, Milton Supman, Roy Rogers, Sinatra, Soupy Sales, Hydrogen Bomb, Pall Mall, It's a Wonderful World, Ohio, Cincinnati, Miller Beer, White Fang, Soupy Shuffle, Detroit, Paradice Valley, Pistons, Birdbaths, Entertainment News
Lester Sloan

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.

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GMAC Asks For $2.8 Billion More In Taxpayer Money

Wall Street Journal | DAN FITZPATRICK and DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Car Buyers, Auto Industry, Stress Test, Stress Tests, Financing, Gm, Alvaro De MOlina, Car Loans, Car Dealerships, Automakers, Auto Loans, Fdic, Gmac, General Motors, Bailout Bandits, Car Financing, GMAC Financial Services, Detroit, Cash for Clunkers, Banks, Auto Sales, Car Dealers, Ceberus Capitol, Ceberus, Business News

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...

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"Ice House Detroit": Artists Plan To Encase Vacant Detroit Home In Ice

AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Ice House Detroit, Gregory Holm, Matthew Radune, Detroit, Financial Crisis, Detroit Real Estate, Business News

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...

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Detroit Housing Auction Fails To Move Properties

Yahoo! News | Kevin Krolicki | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Detroit Automakers, Financial Crisis, Housing Market, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Business News

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...

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SAI PHOTOS: Toyota Unveils Bigger, More Expensive Hybrid Car

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sai Prius Photos, Sai Pictures, New Car, Gasoline, Toyota, Prius, Sai Pics, Green, Sai Photos, New Toyota Hybrid, Miles Per Gallon, Carmakers, Cars, Kyushu Plant, Mph, Kyushu, Sai Prius, Cost, Tokyo, Sai Assembly, Toyota Sai, New Toyota, Detroit, Sai Miles Per Gallon, Sai Cost, Sai, Japan, Slideshow, Business News

ASSOCIATED PRESS, BY YURI KAGEYAMA: TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underl...

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Growing Up In Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli

Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Growing Up, Large Families, Uaw, Unemployment, Chrysler, Economy, Detroit, Gm, Community Organizing, Italian Food, Ford, Unions, Living News
Nancy Cronk

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.

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Limbaugh Calls Detroit's Poor "Obama's America"

Chris Savage | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Poverty, Economic Stimulus Package, Michigan, Detroit, Rush, Recession Fears, Far Right, Rush Limbaugh, Recession, Politics News
Chris Savage

Detroiters converged on Cobo Hall last Wednesday to claim federal aid, giving Rush Limbaugh a chance to mock "Obama's America."

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Thousands Mob Detroit Center In Hopes Of Free Cash

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Homeless, Housing, Detroit, Home News

DETROIT — Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3...

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Patricia Keezer: 'Robin Hood' Banker Sentenced To 1 Year In Prison For Embezzling

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Banks, Embezzle, Crime, Citizens Bank, Robin Hood, Republic Bank, Patty Keezer, Charity, Manager, Michigan, Bank Manager, Patricia Keezer, Robin Hood Banker, Manchester, Embezzlement, Detroit, Home News

DETROIT — A Michigan bank manager who insists she gave the $340,000 she stole over eight years to needy customers was sentenced Tuesday to a yea...

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Detroit: Banks Responsible For Maintenance Of Foreclosed Homes

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Unemployment, Detroit, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Accidental-Entrepreneur, Forclosure, Home Repair, Vacant-Houses, Home Foreclosures, Home Foreclosure, Business News

As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...

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Ryan Mack's Open Letter to Detroit: Safer Exotic Bars = Faster Economic Recovery

Ryan Mack | Posted 10.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit-Michigan, Clean Strip Clubs, Ryan Mack, Economy, Detroit, Regulation, Economic Recovery, Strip Club, Strip Clubs, Business News
Ryan Mack

There is no dollar value on the safety of the women in the exotic dancing industry.

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Duke! Mama's Home: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Ferndale Michigan, New Jersey, Influenza Epidemic, Diabetes, South Carolina, Glaucoma, Elbe Alabama, Detroit, Dachshund Dog, Dialysis, Growing Old, Living News
Lester Sloan

Back home again, her three-and-one-half hours of dialysis over, my mother negotiates her way through a maze of bags, chairs and boxes, toward the hazy out-of-focus shapes of the kitchen.

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Leaving New York: The White Mana Diner

Nick Carr | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Diners, Flushing, Jersey City, Restaurants, New York City, White Mana Diner, Detroit, New Jersey, Scouting Ny, 1964 World's Fair, Urban Ruins, Urban Exploring, New York News
Nick Carr

Recently, I've been scouting New York looking for Detroit (don't ask), a search that ultimately led me to northern Jersey and the White Mana Diner -- originally created for the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing.

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Jason Linkins

Getting The Detroit Story Right

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Unemployment, Time Magazine, Economic Crisis, Detroit, Media News, Media Criticism, Detroit-Michigan, Poverty, Financial Crisis, Thomas Morton, Dale Maharidge, Media News

My recent interview with Dale Maharidge provided the occasion to bring up one of my favorite recent pieces of downturn-era media criticism, Vice Magazine's "Something Something Something Detroit", in which Thomas Morton described how the recession had sparked a "gold rush mentality" among journalists, looking to document some desolation on the cheap.

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Fisker Automotive Gets $529 Million Government Loan To Build Electric Cars

Wall Street Journal | JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Doe, Cars, Subsidies, Emissions, Mpg, Roadster, Nina, Loans, Karma, Electric Cars, Detroit, Environment, Fuel Standards, Finland, Al Gore, Department of Energy, Fisker Automotive, Global Warming, Tesla, Business News

A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Fi...

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Retired Couple Save Abandoned Pets

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abandoned Pets, Unemployed, Toledo, Unemployment, Homelessness, Toledo Free Press, Detroit, Camping, Health Insurance, Campground, Stray-Cats, Pre-Existing-Condition, Tri-City Times, Bearing Witness, Bearing Witness 2.0, Politics News

A retired couple in Eastern Michigan has opened their home and their hearts to desperate cats abandoned by their owners as they were forced out of the...

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GM's New TV Commercials -- Do They Grab You?

Steve Parker | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Lee Iacocca, Automotive News, White House, Bob Lutz, Ed Whitacre, General Motors, Hyundai, Honda, Detroit, Lexus-es350, Cars, Cadillac SRX Crossover, Buick Lacrosse, Business News
Steve Parker

I like the fact that GM, having suffered from a terrible inferiority complex for the past 20 years (often based, in truth, on some pretty bad product) seems, at least for its latest commercial, to have gotten some guts back.

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Five One-Way Tickets to Michigan, Please

Jeff Bocan | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Venture Capital, Michigan, Jeff Bocan, Entrepreneurs, Vc, Entrepreneurship, Economic Revitalization, Beringea, Business News
Jeff Bocan

This summer, I decided to move my wife and three little kids away from the sunny beaches and new media millionaires of Southern California to -- you guessed it -- Michigan.

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Pittsburgh Model Dramatizes Lessons for G-20 Summit

Gary Shapiro | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gary Shapiro, Debt, Deficit, Innovation Movement, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Bailout, g20, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Innovation, Cea, Protectionism, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.

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GM Recalls About 2,400 Workers

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, General Motors, Gm, Detroit, GM Recalls Workers, GM Facotry Kansas, GM Michigan, Business News

DETROIT — General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and...

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