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."
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
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...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
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...
Ryan Mack | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
There is no dollar value on the safety of the women in the exotic dancing industry.
Lester Sloan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living
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.
Nick Carr | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
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.
Wall Street Journal | JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business
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...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
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...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
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.
Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
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.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
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...
CNNMoney.com | Sheena Harrison | Posted 11.22.2009 | Style
Detroit's auto industry trained generations of workers in design and manufacturing. As that business fades and its jobs disappear, city planners are h...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
As the Huffington Post bears witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found some compelling stories be...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Another "Hail Mary" from GM? Or the real thing? Starting today and running through November, General Motors is offering buyers of their Core Four bra...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
When poor lending practices brought the world's biggest banks and AIG to their knees, Washington delivered hundreds of billions in financial lifelines...
AP | TIM MARTIN and ED WHITE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
OWOSSO, Mich. — A man carrying grudges against several people set off on a shooting spree Friday morning, authorities said, killing an abortion ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
While veteran shows struggle to incorporate the ailing economy into their story lines, networks are launching new shows born of the recession. In addi...
Lester Sloan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
While the old Packard is an image of urban decay, it has nothing to do with the demise of the auto industry as we know it today.
Lester Sloan | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
It had been raining about an hour when the locksmith rang my doorbell. I went to the door prepared to put his mind at ease. If you didn't know, Detroit is like that.
Yahoo! News | Kevin Krolicki | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business