DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the se...
Detroit News | Ron French | Posted 08.19.2008 | Business
DETROIT -- One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald's, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city's ...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Sometimes, it's the incongruities, not the new models, which make the auto industry so interesting.
AP | Dee-Ann Durbin | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business
DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. is laying off 300 workers at its Romeo Engine Plant near Detroit because of a drop in demand for its V-8 engines, a com...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green
Ever wondered about that dreary film which builds-up inside the windshield of your car or truck? Not outside, which can be taken care of easily enough; inside.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
While our administration has done little and Congress not much more to get the oil monkey off our backs, we have Paris Hilton proposing enlisting industry, labor and government to a higher calling.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.
Carl Pope | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
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.
John Lundberg | Posted 07.13.2008 | Living
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.
Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
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.
Toby Barlow | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
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.
AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota,...
Financial Times | John Reed | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
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 ...
Dan Brown | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
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.
Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
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.
Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
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.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business
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.
Toby Barlow | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
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.
James Boyce | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
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.
Phillip Martin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
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.
John Kao | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
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.
AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Chrysler LLC could reduce its vehicles and dealerships significantly under a tentative plan called Project Genesis, a Chrysler dealer ...
Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business
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.
Dan Treul | Posted 12.28.2007 | Home
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.
POKANE, Wash. - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice...
A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday...
I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this...
For all the hullabaloo about whether John McCain would...
7PM So it's the last night of this thing. I wonder if...
A John McCain campaign aide tells Jay Carney that she sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to...
Barack Obama made his long-anticipated debut on Fox News'...
As Cindy McCain came under criticism for wearing an outfit that some estimate was...
This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists...
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as...
First, read this list of relationship tips below. When you get to the bottom, I...
AP | ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics