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Detroit LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People

Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Detroit News, Detroit Breaking News Twitter, Detroit Live Tweets, Detroit Twitter, Detroit Live on Twitter, Detroit Sports, Detroit Tweets, Detroit People, Detroit, Home News

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 who...

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GM's Saab Sale CANCELED: Swedish Buyer Steps Out

AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Gm, Saab, Detroit, Koenigsegg, Auto Industry, Auto Manufacturers, Business News

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 ...

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A Dobbs Campaign? Battle-Scarred Radio Pro Dave Ross Reveals What Lou Can Expect

Bill Mann | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Kcbs, Democratic Primary, Cnn, Wcbs, Limbaugh, Dobbs, Dave Ross, Detroit, Media News

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.

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Auto Industry Will Have Little Growth In 2010: Report

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Business News

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...

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A Lesson for Those Who Would Lead America's Cities: Michael Scott Did Not Die in Vain

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Birmingham, New Orleans, Urban Policy, Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, Michael Scott, Eugene Sawyer, Carl Sandburg, Richard Daley, Miami, Harold Washington, Chicago News

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?

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GM To Begin Repaying Aid By Year-End

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Saturn, Gm, Ford, Cars, General Motors, Ed Whitacre, Bailout, General Motors Co., Washington, Fiat, Detroit, Car Makers, Jeep, Auto Bailout, Business News

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...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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