On December 31, 2012 ClearChannel will pull the plug on Progressive Detroit 1310 WDTW-AM radio. Progressive Michigan voice Tony Trupiano was notified minutes after the Tuesday Lansing Right-to-Work protest show of his loss of employment. Detroit and Southeast Michigan will lose the Thom Hartmann show. For audio of this news scroll to the 11:50 audio mark. http://www.1310wdtw.com/player/?station=WDTW-AM&program_name=podcast&pro...
'God Help Michigan' Attorney Fieger blasts Right-to-Work Law
I have a question, is it time to invest in Detroit, and the Big Three? Detroit is still the main player in the Auto Industry, at least in the US. Also, there are millions of sq. ft. of floor space in closed/idle factory buildings. Real estate is dirt cheap. One primary reason that a few new factories are built in the US, is the fact that there are RTW states. But none of those states have the infrastructure, or the floor space that Michigan in general, and Detroit in particular already have.
Obviously this country has officially lost its mind. Let's look at all the areas that used to be booming and are now crap holes. Detroit, Old West End Toledo, Old Polish Town Toledo, South Toledo, North Toledo....hmmm...I wonder what is the one common denominator here? What is the "pink" elephant in the room nobody will truthfully admit or talk about?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168161/Detroit-hit-flesh-brain-...
Opinions on this? Detroit is having a job fair where only those convicted of felonies are eligible to attend. Good idea to give a second or third chance to a ex-con? Or. should there be more focus on helping those with clean records to find employment. What I find ironic...is that I went on a job interview last week and they made a big deal about the fact that I put down the wrong day I started a job 15 years ago...not month...not year...but day...and I was practically treated like a convict.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/Detroit-Holds-Ex-Cons-Only-Jobs-Fai...
Autoline Detroit
August 28, 2011
Cindy Estrada, Vice President, UAW, Alisa Priddle, The Detroit News, Joe Szczesny, The Oakland Press. Topic: UAW.
Koch-Backed AFP Admits To Posting Fake Eviction Notices On Detroit Homes 'To Startle People'
The Koch-backed group Americans For Prosperity admitted to posting fake eviction notices on numerous Detroit homes Monday in order to "startle people" about a bridge project that the group opposes.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/koch-backed_afp_admits...
Financial manager bill passes Michigan Senate
Lawmakers crafting final version; Snyder's approval expected
Karen Bouffard / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Ten years ago Jerry Anderson was a Speedy talk show host. He got top ratings and Speedy listeners hated to see him go. But the man had a face for television and it was only a matter of time till he moved along. Jerry reminded me of oldtime Speedy host Paul W Smith who now works for WJR 760 Detroit. Another example of a excellent talk show host that is civil and civic minded and doesn't race bait always positive and gracious. He draws in the big names with a Midwest flavor to his interviews. By-the-way Paul W show can be heard on the mega watt WJR 760 AM from 5:30 AM to 9:00 AM every morning.
The Blah appears to be a non-factor anymore. Go into any carryout or Meijer by the newspapers and you will see the Detroit papers are pretty much sold out while the stores
have tons of Blahs. I guess Toledoans are waking up to the fact the paper is as reliable as a tabloid.
Talking to some people I ran into that live in Detroit. They said Detroit stopped using the boots because they are easily defeated using common household tools. Since they are worth around $400 the criminals resell them on the black market. They further said unless the police actually catch you removing the boot there is little the police can do to prosecute.
So I am wondering how successful this program will be in Toledo since we are so close to Detroit.
Last Updated: February 24. 2010 12:07PM
DPS privatizing bus service
Plan saves financially strapped school district $50 million; 289 drivers to lose jobs
Tom Greenwood and Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News
http://detnews.com/article/20100224/SCHOOLS/2240342/1026/DPS-privatizing...
Detroit -- Detroit Public Schools' move to privatize bus service for thousands of students will mean nearly 300 drivers will lose their jobs with the district, but savings of about $50 million over five years.
This interview happened last month and caused a controversy when Shepard Smith said he would burn down the Detroit Public Schools if he was a parent there. Watch the whole segment and you will see where Shepard Smith's outrage is justified, yet this situation occurs here in Toledo. There are still some schools which are failures and continue to be so, yet we have administration and board members who never want to hold these schools accountable. And you know TPS does not want to do anything about problems, the Dan Burns situation indicates they have no clue problems exists and contrary to board members and administration officials wanting to put this behind their back saying things are fixed, they are not and won't be without creating a new proactive system to identify and deal with problems as they come up whether it is academic performance or employees stealing money. Urban schools suffer from a serious case of accountability. If TPS wanted to prove they are going to be proactive in dealing with problems, quickly addressing problem schools is a great place to start because at least they are well documented and known. Our community cannot wait one week more for schools to continually fail.
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Another ranking politicians will want to ignore.
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Last place in the small-business-vitality rankings again belongs to Detroit, which continues to pay the price for the decline of the domestic automotive industry. The Detroit area lost 298,000 jobs during the past five years—an employment decline of 16.3 percent, easily the worst in any metro. It also experienced short-term drops in population and the number of small businesses.
Joining Detroit in the bottom five, in descending order, are Youngstown, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio, and Milwaukee.
Is it right that our country is bankrupt but is borrowing one hundred million from China to give to Haiti? China which has a bounty of eight hundred billion of the U.S. treasury is donating a miserly one million, go figure?
Detroit with 50% unemployment and a Michigan state on the verge of bankruptcy has its Nonprofits organizing Aid to Haiti.
Detroit Nonprofit Organizes Aid to Haiti
Rina Miller (2010-01-22)
Listen Now
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/michigan/news.newsmain/article/0/1/160...
Fox Toledo's Barrett Andrews' interview with the Chrysler Girl makes the Auto Blog and the Do you come with the car? Blog. Read for yourself.
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FOX Toledo reporter Barrett Andrews thought he could be sly by slipping a come-on into his chat with a lovely auto show model who kindly humored him by granting an interview request.
http://doyoucomewiththecar.blogspot.com/2010/01/fox-reporter-shut-down-b...
Reporter gets deservedly dissed by Chrysler model
January 14. 2010
Obama wants banks to pay for auto bailout losses
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
http://detnews.com/article/20100114/NATION/1140433
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/a-spot-of-tea-vs-a-plea-for-m...
The White House wants the nation's largest financial institutions to repay taxpayers for the costs of bailing out banks and automakers.
Under the proposal, the largest 50 banks -- including GMAC Inc. -- would pay $90 billion over 10 years to cover taxpayer losses under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Does anyone know of a shuttle service that goes from Detroit Metro back to Toledo?
Bizjournals is reporting the latest Milken Institute rankings of tech jobs and Toledo rounds up the pack at 198 out of 200, only followed by Detroit and Flint. How depressing.
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No other major Ohio city finished higher than Columbus, though Cincinnati (138), Dayton (183) and Akron (186) all moved up the list compared with last year. The lowest-ranked Ohio city in the Milken report was Toledo, which finished 198th – just ahead of Detroit and Flint, Mich.
http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/11/09/daily23.html
WTH?
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LANSING -- A Toledo-based company that plans to build a $12.4-million plant in Detroit to build parts for Chrysler Group LLC is among 10 projects granted state tax credits with promises they'll produce 1,507 new direct jobs, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday.
Ohio Module Manufacturing Co. plans to hire 200 employees at the plant, which will build chassis for the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Dodge Durango assembled at the Chrysler Jefferson plant. The company will get a tax break worth $1.8 million over five years.
U.S. NEWS OCTOBER 28, 2009 GMAC Asks for Fresh Lifeline
Lender in Advanced Talks for Third Slug of Taxpayer Cash -- at Least $2.8 Billion By DAN FITZPATRICK and DAMIAN PALETTA
In a stark reminder of how some battered financial firms remain dependent on government lifelines, GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department are in advanced talks to prop up the lender with its third helping of taxpayer money, people familiar with the matter said.
