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5 Jun 2010, 1:51 pm by immigrationprof
From the National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights: Dear NNIRR Members and Friends, NNIRR is going to be in Detroit later this month for the US Social Forum (USSF) and we are putting out a general call to all... [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 2:11 pm
Jim's excellent post notes one-half of the argument against a Detroit bailout--that it is an unusually bad case for a bailout because of the need for long-term structural reform that... [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 4:31 am by Steven Gursten
Combine that with credit scoring, and you have a double whammy for Detroit drivers. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 8:59 pm by dunawayse
The Law Review of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law held its annual symposium on Friday, October 16, at the School of Law in Detroit, Michigan. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 2:29 pm by Nathan Shaker
Photo of the Detroit skyline by Shawn Wilson on Wikipedia. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 5:48 am by landuseprof
I've posted several times on the plight of my hometown Detroit, but this NYT article really summarizes the challenges in a stark way: Laying bare the country’s most startling example of modern urban collapse, census data on Tuesday showed that... [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 10:32 am
The Detroit Free Press reports little or no wait time at an assortment of metro voting places. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 6:54 pm
6-18-2009 Michigan:It's not often that inmates object to the release of other prisoners, but it's happening in Detroit. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 4:38 am by Derek Black
” The day-long event seeks to unpack the roots of the current crisis in public education in Detroit and to explore how legal reform... [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 5:50 am
"Detroit Mayor Loses Fight Over Secret Papers": The New York Times contains this article today. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 9:12 am by Timothy B. Lee
Detroit's police chief admitted on Monday that facial recognition technology used by the department misidentifies suspects about 96 percent of the time. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 1:16 am by Social Sciences Faculty Librarian
Detroit Public Television’s American Black Journal American Black Journal (ABJ) first went on the air in 1968, and its focus was “to increase the availability and accessibility of media relating to African-American experiences in order to encourage greater involvement from Detroit citizens in working to resolve community problems. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 7:10 am by Steven Gursten
A recent article in the Detroit Free Press, Detroit hit-and-run deaths highlight city’s woes: no streetlights, slow emergency response, shed some light on the hit and run crisis in Detroit: In 2012, 18 people died in hit-and-run crashes in Detroit — 39% of fatal hit-and-runs in Michigan. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 11:58 am by LaJuana Davis
The Detroit Public Schools announced last week that it is again suing the State of Michigan in a class action suit under Section 1983, this time alleging that the appointment of emergency managers has resulted in financial and academic mismanagement and deteriorating building conditions. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 8:28 am by Melissa Jacoby
As suggested in my Credit Slips posts, Detroit made some new law but its major lasting legacy is procedural. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 7:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds
DEMOCRAT BEGS REPUBLICAN FOR MONEY: Detroit’s Mayor Asks Governor for Help. “With Detroit projected to run out of money in May, Mayor Dave Bing is calling on Michigan’s governor to give the city a loan rather than appoint a financial overseer who would have broad power to cut costs and break union contracts.” But here’s the key bit: “New labor agreements that could save the city $100 million have yet to be ratified by unionized workers.” [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 6:52 pm
GM got its first billion dollar payment too.In spite of the auto industry woes, the North American International Auto Show opens Jan. 17 and runs to the 25th at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit, a city whose housing values dipped 15% last year, causing Forbes.com to name it one of the ten fastest dying cities in the US.While it's all going bad, the Big 3 turn up the glitz. [read post]