CIO Magazine becomes the latest publication to pile onto Detroit: It’s easy to pick on poor Detroit, but it would hardly be any IT staffer’s destination of choice right now. What’s left of the tech jobs at automobile industry companies that haven’t already been outsourced (see: GM) is quite low as those companies and their [...]

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Hello cruel world, welcome to the Detroit party. Forget all your troubles, lay down your cares, everything is waiting for you … downtown. Credit: Metro Times

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Detroit Hip-Hop artists Invincible & Finale rhyme about the impacts of gentrification on the Motor City. It’s a slow news day, I’m bored, and for no other reason than that I’m posting this video. It’s also catchy and I like the scenery. So sue me.

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Monty Python’s Spamalot, the musical that set theatre back 1,000 years and captured Broadway’s Holy Grail (the tony award for best musical) was back in Detroit for a brief appearance at the Fisher Theatre in downtown Detroit. Lucky for us we caught the last show Sunday night. Who says there’s no culture** in Motor City?! [...]

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Speaking of Wildlife In Detroit… Just when I thought I’d heard it all, something like this comes along! DETROIT (AP) – Authorities are trying to determine who dumped more than a ton of frozen chicken outside an old auto factory in Detroit. The Detroit News reports at least 30 boxes containing the more than 2,000 [...]

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Check out this video of Detroit (just ignore the French subtitles). It’s fairly long but the imagery is absolutely haunting.

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If you’ve got to go, go out in style! The Detroit mayor’s resignation and guilty pleas trump the Republican National Convention coverage today. At least the embarrassment is over and some good thorough house cleaning can get underway to move the city forward.

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The Dequindre Cut is a sub-grade railroad corridor. Originally used to link commercial manufacturing in the early 19th century, The Cut was later used as a commuter rail traveling from Pontiac to the Ren Cen. In the decline of the 80′s, The Cut was tagged by graffiti artists and home to the homeless. Now the [...]

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My dream INCHED closer to reality back in April with the release of a study trumpeting light rail transit as the best regional transit option for the Woodward corridor. An intensive 18-month technical review that is following guidelines established by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) New Starts Program concludes a light rail line along eight [...]

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In the past week I/we did these things (in no particular order): 1. Went golfing with Steve before he left town. Discovered we all suck pretty badly at golf. 2. Went to a Tigers game a few rows back from the dugout. 3. Acted like we knew what we were doing after watching our 100th [...]

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