The iconic, hulking Lafayette Towers in Detroit won’t go on the auction block Wednesday because the city of Detroit has postponed the sale, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. City officials want to find a responsible owner who won’t let the twin high-rises fall into foreclosure like they did in February. Built in […]
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It may be Charlie LeDuff’s whackiest idea yet. And maybe his best. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-turned-TV-sensation golfed 18 miles – from 8 Mile Road to Belle Isle, teeing off on cracked streets, abandoned factories and overgrown fields. During the trek, shown on a nearly 11-minute video aired on Fox 2, LeDuff meets struggling Detroiters trying […]
Grosse Pointe South High School choir director Ellen Bowen was talented but often feared. After surviving several calls for her resignation in the past, Bowen may be shown the door after school officials said she struck a student on the head with a cell phone. Bowen, who has led her students to numerous national and […]
Detroit Public Schools won’t come anywhere close to the reported class sizes of 61 students, DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts assured City Council this morning. Roberts also said the long-struggling district should be deficit-free by 2016. Roberts dismissed fears that classes would bulge to 60 or more students, saying he has a plan to limit […]
If Gov. Rick Snyder gets his way, the state will help Mayor Dave Bing demolish abandoned houses in Detroit, his office said Friday. Abandoned homes are among the most nagging problems in Detroit because they attract crime, rodents and fires and drive down property values. By many estimates, about a quarter of the homes in […]
The Internet is abuzz over rumors of a budding relationship between Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander and model Kate Upton. In one of the latest examples of the craze, a YouTube.com video pokes fun at the pair in song. Some fans are worried the news is a distraction to one of baseball’s best pitchers.buy diflucan online https://taxmama.com/wp-content/forum/styles/new/engl/diflucan.html no […]
The Detroit of the 1980s is nothing like today’s city. So says Forbes writer Joann Muller in a beaming story about the city’s progress since she first moved to Detroit nearly three decades ago. Muller was thrilled to see Woodward Avenue teeming with people and occupied buildings. “In any other city, this would be unremarkable,” she wrote. […]
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Apparently there is no shame in Wayne County or Detroit. After County Executive Robert Ficano was exposed for giving excessive pension plans to his appointees, three of his former aids landed lucrative jobs with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department over the past eight months, the Free Press reports. The trio will make between $100,000 and […]