Detroit

The Detroit Three --- Making Any Relevant Cars or Trucks?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Saturn, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Malibu, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Honda, CAFE Standards, Dodge Ram, Plymouth, General Motors, Dodge Challenger, Ev1, Mercury Mariner, Crossfire, Bob Nardelli, Jeep Wrangler, Plug-in Hybrids, President Bush, Detroit, Energy, Dodge Sprinter, Dodge, Gasoline, Gm, Alan Mulally, Ford, Detroit Three, Burbank, Chevrolet, Honda Hybrid, Hybrid Hemi, Cerberus, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Corvette, Chrysler, Chevrolet Volt, Bmw, Bill Ford, Ford Escape, Hemi, Viper, Nhtsa, Volt, Jeep, Business News
Steve Parker

That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.

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Using the "D" Word -- And How to Duck It

Carl Pope | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Detroit, Gas Prices, Automakers, High Gas Prices, Mass Transit, Environment, Oil Price Per Gallon, Auto Industry, Green News
Carl Pope

The auto industry thought it had ten more years of maintaining a share of the U.S. market with trucks and SUVs. It got caught napping. But it had never planned, once it woke up, to modernize its American manufacturing base.

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Jack White's Poetic Apology

John Lundberg | Posted 07.13.2008 | Life

Read More: Detroit, Jack White, Jack White Poetry, Jack White Detroit Poem, The White Stripes, The Inner Life, Life News
John Lundberg

This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- trying to appease angry denizens of Detroit with a poem seems doomed to failure -- but it earned White Stripes rocker Jack White a lot of local press.

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Is Our Long National Obsession With Cars Finally Ebbing?

Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Infrastructure, Gas Prices, War, Detroit, Community, Cars, Middle East, Iraq, Suvs, Green News
Sean-Paul Kelley

One thing I have never understood about Americans is their love of cars, and I am from Texas. To me, a car is like a prison sentence.

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Saving a Real Field of Dreams

Toby Barlow | Posted 07.02.2008 | Life

Read More: Baseball, Detroit, Sports, Tiger Stadium, Detroit Tigers, Life News
Toby Barlow

Instead of turning into another parking lot or an abandoned patch of dirt and grass, a group in Detroit is working to help the old Tiger Staidum remain a great baseball field for years to come.

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Ford Sales Plunge In June

AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Ford Motors, General Motors, Gas Prices, June Sales Numbers, Auto Industry, US Auto Industry, Detroit, Economy, Business News

DETROIT — Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota,...

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Detroit's June Car Sales Set For Worst Showing Since 1990s

Financial Times | John Reed | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Car Sales, Detroit Auto Industry, Big Auto Makers, June Car Sales, Economy, Detroit, Business News

June car sales data, due out on Tuesday, are expected to show the US auto market heading for its worst year in more than a decade. The figures could ...

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A Cable News Abomination During the Gore/Obama Rally

Dan Brown | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Dan Abrams, Alan Colmes, Al Gore, Msnbc, Cnn, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, Cable News, Barack Obama, Detroit, Media News
Dan Brown

None of the networks turned the sound on for Obama. Viewers were treated to a cavalcade of pundits dissecting the Democrat candidate, but denied the ability to hear him for themselves.

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Intervention for America's Oil Addicts

Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Supply-Demand, U.S. Trade Deficit, John McCain, $130 a Barrel, Germany, Vehicles, Alternative Energy, Gasoline Prices, Commodity Prices Soar, Fuel Effficiency Mandates, Gasoline Taxes, Europeans Foreign Oil Dependency., Pollution, Suvs, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hybrids, Rogue Regimes, Oil, Pick-Up Trucks, Detroit, Gas Guzzlers, Green News
Diane Francis

America needs an energy intervention right now which will help the environment, slash trade deficits, reduce dependency foreign regimes and finance new technologies. Here are my ideas.

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Detroit Small Cars

Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Auto Industry, Small Cars, Gas Price, Gm, Hummer, Detroit, Mileage, Media News
Jeff Danziger

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Elitist My Ass

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Detroit, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Midwest, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Erin Kotecki Vest

I love the Midwest. I think everyone should live and work and grow in these cities -- but understand when I tell you that Obama is dead on when he talks about the bitterness of residents.

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An Essential and Viable Energy Fix, and the Renaissance of Detroit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Israel, Franklin Roosevelt, American Automobile Industry, Arsenal of Democracy, Project Better Place, Denmark, Detroit, Energy, Greatest Generation, Israel Electric Cars, Detroit Arsenal, Fdr, Renault Nissan Electric Cars, Renault Nissan, Shai Agassi Car Project, Shai Agassi, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

To make Israel oil independent by 2020, Renault Nissan is building cars running purely on electricity, with Denmark signing on to implement the sinews of this major electric car initiative.

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Detroit, the City of Love

Toby Barlow | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Media, Fox News, Kwame, Mccain, Obama, Spitzer, Detroit, Detroit Mayer Affair, Kwame Affair, Kwame Kilpatrick, Kwame Scandal, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Kwame Kilpatrick Text Messages, Kwame Spitzer, Politics News
Toby Barlow

Our illustrious mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick agreed to pay 8.4 million dollars out of Detroit city funds to hush it up his affair. That 8.4 million dollars could have paid for a lot of other lovin' in the city.

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No Bailout For Bear Stearns, Or For Any Homeowner For That Matter

James Boyce | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

Read More: 2008, Mortgage Crisis, Bush Economy, Greed, U.S. Economy, Bear Stearns Bailout, Wall Street, Economy, Detroit, Bear Stearns, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Capitalism, Credit Crunch, Business News
James Boyce

A little economic trauma is exactly what this country needs for everyone to realize what the last eight years has done to this land, once the largest economy in the world.

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Why Willey Won't Vote For Hillary in November

Phillip Martin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Ferraro Black Obama, African American Vote, Geraldine Ferraro, Detroit, Black Vote, Politics News
Phillip Martin

Ferraro's comments reflect the mounting anxiety of many ethnic whites who have come to believe that there are built-in advantages to being black or Mexican or another minority.

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Detroit — Innovation City?

John Kao | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Innovation, Detroit, Politics News
John Kao

So I began to see Detroit as a microcosm of sorts for what is happening in the US as a whole — now pausing to consider where the future sources of value are coming from, how to be global, how to overcome highly dysfunctional attitudes towards education, pondering how to create a vibrant hub for talent — in short, trying to figure out how to be an innovation city.

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Chrysler to Cut Models, Dealerships

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Chrysler Cuts, Chrysler Jeep, Project Genesis, Car Dealerships, Detroit, Business News

DETROIT — Chrysler LLC could reduce its vehicles and dealerships significantly under a tentative plan called Project Genesis, a Chrysler dealer ...

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It's the Economy, El Stupido

Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Michigan Primary, Detroit, Chrysler, Gm, Michigan, Cars in Cuba, Cuba, Cuban Embargo, Ford, Business News
Marvin Kitman

Dumping our cars into the Cuban market would be a win-win for us. Not only would it revive the ailing Michigan auto economy, it would be one more nail in Castro's coffin.

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Turning Purple: Michigan Voters Indecisive, Overlooked and Just Plain Unaware

Dan Treul | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home

Read More: Auto Industry, Flint, The Big Three, Secession, Michiganders, Huckabee Cross, Michigan Auto Industry, Mlk, Huckabee Floating Cross, Upper Peninsula Secession, Michigan Culture, Floating Cross, 2008 Presidential Election, Primaries, Michigan Primary, Mitt Romney, Presidential Politics, Detroit, Weird Michigan, Michigan, Michigan Politics, John McCain, Michigan Upper Peninsula, Martin Luther King, Race Riots, Presidential Election, Martin Luther King Jr., The Big 3, Presidential Candidates, Upper Peninsula, Jan. 15 Primary, 2008 Election, Pictured Rocks, Purple States, Dr. King, Labor Unions, Big 3, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, Michigan Voters, Home News
Dan Treul

A little more than two weeks away from this state's January 15 primary, I have yet to hear a single person mention his or her intention to vote.

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Sam Stein

Timeline: Romney's MLK Confusion

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Romney, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Freedom March, Mitt Romney, Detroit Free Press, Boston Phoenix, Bad Memory, March, Romney Presidential Campaign, Grosse Pointe, Detroit, Mlk, Politics News

It's becoming increasingly hard to follow the various explanations and accounts of Mitt Romney's father, George, "marching" (so it is claimed) alongsi...

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The Top 10 State Tech Leaders

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business

Read More: Mit, Washington, Greater Boston, Innovation, Hudson River, Beltway, Silicon Alley, Eliot Spitzer, California, Virginia, David Hochman, Technology, Detroit, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York, Michigan, Route 128, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Maryland, Colorado, Herman Hollerith, Nist, Albany, Army, Ohio, Noaa, Alfred Beach, Alexander Graham Bell, Microsoft, Karl Compton, Commerce Department, Thomas Edison, Texas, Poughkeepsie, Air Force, Fred Terman, Itac, Nasa, Sbir, Buffalo, Rochester, Navy, Doe, Guglielmo Marconi, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Why do Colorado and Ohio rank higher than the Empire State in small business innovation?

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Getting Real With Saudi Arabia

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.23.2007 | Business

Read More: Energy Sec Bodman, Naval Task Force, Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Congress, Wto, Riyadh Meeting, Detroit, Nytimes, Nopec, Iran, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

It has come to the point where pleading with the Saudis is futile; with oil near $100 a barrel, they're impervious to anything but their own interests. A new relationship is called for.

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"The Most Dangerous City?" Really?

Toby Barlow | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drought, Michigan, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, California, Detroit, Detroit Crime, Crime, American Society of Criminolgy, Detroit Safety, Fbi, Politics News
Toby Barlow

Take the column that adds up the local robberies and break-ins in Detroit and add to it the crimes we have all been collectively committing against the environment.

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Detroit Named Most Dangerous US City; Critics Blast Rankings

AP | David N. Goodman | Posted 11.18.2007 | Home

Read More: US Most Dangerous City, Detroit Crime, Detroit Most Dangerous City, Most Dangerous City in America, Detroit Most Dangerous City in US, Detroit, Home News

In another blow to the Motor City's tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private ...

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UAW Approves Pact With Chrysler

New York Times | Micheline Maynard | Posted 10.27.2007 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Uaw, Auto Industry, Labor Talks, Detroit, Business News

United Automobile Workers members at Chrysler approved a new agreement with the automaker, the union said today, clearing the way for talks to acceler...

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