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I feel the same way about

wabby — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:32:46 +0000

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I feel the same way about Flint, MI, that you do about Detroit, Ramona. Born and raised in and around, couldn't wait to get out of it, glad that I escaped, but so many memories and family history is linked to Flint, I simply cannot abandon it completely.

http://www.slate.com/id/2260473/

Keep yer eye on this Dan Kildee mentioned in the above link. His uncle, Dale, is retiring from Congress and Dan's name is being bandied about as the candidate to replace him. He took a stab at running for MI Gov, but dropped out early, leaving the Dem nod to Bernero.

I'm thinking now that Uncle Dale gave him a head's up of the upcoming retirement giving Dan an opening to run for U.S.Rep. if it is something he would wish to pursue. Even if he doesn't run for Representative, he has great potential as a progressive leader in some form or fashion. I'd even put money on him eventually becoming the person who could actually replace our Senator Levin when it comes time for him to retire. I mean, if Sander doesn't want the job.

Ok, sorry I got a little off topic.

The other day I caught a PBS show called Under the Radar Michigan, which had a segment on a jazz place in Detroit, Cliff Bells. It has been renovated to reflect its' 1930's jazz club aura and as much as I do not hanker for an urban existence, I'll be damned if I don't want to give this place a visit one of these days.

Barbara Ehrenreich is Rachel

Ramona — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:34:49 +0000

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Barbara Ehrenreich is Rachel Maddow's interview tonight. I'll be watching. Staying up to catch the Wisconsin returns. Hope it's not a long night...

Considering the city and

cmaukonen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:46:56 +0000

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Considering the city and circumstances, I would have been surprised if it had not turned out that way. But that is a damn shame.

There's more to it than that,

Ramona — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:39:09 +0000

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There's more to it than that, C. The Big Three automakers made a concerted effort to keep mass transit down in Detroit. They lobbied to build criss-crossing Freeways instead, thus forcing people to buy and drive cars. Buses would have been major competition. They couldn't have that. So Detroit became one of the few large cities with no mass transit. When the city and the suburbs worked on a long, complicated agreement to create something similar to a Bart System, they fought that, too. So it never happened.

That is a great article,

Ramona — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:33:49 +0000

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That is a great article, Richard. Oddly enough, I've just started reading "Nickle and Dimed" again. I didn't make the connection until Ehrenreich said it in her article that she wrote that book during good times. She's right when she says she couldn't have flitted from job to job as she did when she was researching her book.

We're living in bad times. I don't know what it's going to take to turn things around, but I do know that whatever it is, it's not now being done.

But Youngstown is so much

cmaukonen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:23:54 +0000

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But Youngstown is so much worse.

East Cleveland

cmaukonen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:43:56 +0000

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East Cleveland

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Donal — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:24:59 +0000

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Donal — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:21:21 +0000

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With mass transit it requires

cmaukonen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:10:00 +0000

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With mass transit it requires planning but in most major cities their bus system runs along the same routes the trollies did. Unfortunately areas change and grow that these routes become unviable and need to be changed and updated. If not you wind up with a system that no longer serves the needs of the populace. And if each little surrounding city and/or burb has its own system, then things become even more dysfunctional.