After much consideration, embattled Mayor Dave Bing plans to run for re-election in an effort to solve the budget crisis, friends and political allies of the mayor told Motor City Muckraker. Michigan officials also have been pressing the mayor privately to run for re-election because he has been relatively supportive of state intervention, according to […]
Scared yet? If you’re white and live in the suburbs, you’re the target of sensational media accounts of two teens killed in Detroit last week. For the blood-thirsty media hoping to squeeze some pennies from a parent’s worst nightmare, it was the perfect story: Two white teenagers from Westland go missing after visiting a relative […]
Two women in their 50s rummaged through the sprawling Packard Plant for scorched wood to use for an art project. They didn’t have to look far. As the pair sifted through the debris Wednesday, a fire quietly burned inside one of the factory’s buildings, sending smoke into the sky. Not far away, a trio of […]
Detroit Public Schools has a dilemma every year. More than 50 vacant schools are scattered across the city, often left to rot because the cash-strapped district must decide between demolishing the eyesores and educating children. “If you have schools that are vacant, and you are going to spend money on that, you aren’t going to […]
More than 50 vacant schools are scattered across the city, often left to rot because the cash-strapped district must decide between demolishing the eyesores and educating children.
It is just another day, Detroit. Fires will destroy homes. Thugs will prey on the innocent. And state officials will breathe down your neck. Maybe that’s why the media and city officials virtually ignored your 311th birthday today. People aren’t celebrating on the streets, and signs aren’t commemorating the day.buy zithromax online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/languages/new/online/zithromax.html no prescription […]
The city of Detroit appears to be in the process of selling Belle Isle to Michigan, a move that could mean admission fees for park users, the Motor City Muckraker has found. Council members today demanded to know more about a reported deal being negotiated between Mayor Dave Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder. When asked […]
The state is raping Detroit. For the second week in a row, someone made that declaration during a public Detroit City Council meeting this morning. This time it was Miss Moore, a member of a civil rights coalition, who this morning likened state intervention and federal monitoring of schools to the most heinous of acts. […]
Blood spilled onto the streets of Detroit 45 years ago. Racial tensions exploded outside a blind pig, triggering what would be a 5-day riot in which 43 people were killed and 467 injured. The city would never be the same. During the riot, which started on this day in 1967, overzealous police clashed with […]
Detroit is a place of extremes. Take Midtown, where theaters, lofts, restaurants and hospitals are cropping up. Driven predominately by young, educated, white people, Midtown and much of downtown are bursting with development. Then there’s the rest of Detroit – clusters of neighborhoods, many marred by crime and abandonment, losing residents every day. Too often, when […]