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D Spot has moved and transmogrified… 26 Aug 2010 | 08:23 am
Hey folks. As you have no doubt noticed, I haven’t been posting here for quite awhile. Been meaning t, but I guess the steam was just running out. Anyway, I’ve decided to move this site to Posterous...
Not that anybody cares, but murders are way down in Detroit 7 Jul 2010 | 06:24 pm
Naturally we, as Detroiters are neither amazed nor amused when at least slightly hopeful stories don’t manage to gain much traction beyond 8 Mile Road (that would be the barrier between city and subur...
Parents could be locked up for not being good parents 30 Jun 2010 | 06:18 pm
Just getting caught up on a few things here, and one of the top on my list is a story that appeared a couple weeks ago in the Detroit newspapers where Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy was suggesting...
On masturbating school board presidents and jailbird mayors 28 Jun 2010 | 06:25 pm
In Detroit we’ve got this bad habit of fretting over what everyone else thinks about us, as if who we are as a community depends on the judgment of others who may not have ever even been to this commu...
Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen assassinates Detroit 21 Apr 2010 | 06:17 pm
I don’t guess anybody has ever referred to Dateline NBC as a ‘news’ program recently, at least not with a straight face, at least not for quite some time, so the more I’ve thought about it the more I’...
U.S. hockey team battles Canada in the Olympic “Thrilla in Vanilla” 1 Mar 2010 | 02:22 am
Some of you boxing fans may remember the Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight billed as “The Thrilla in Manila” (Ali vs. Frazier III). Well folks, I do believe we may finally have a follow-up battle com...
Happy OSF! Romance dance songs 27 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am
Man, there’s a LOT to choose from for this category. I’ve been running like crazy this week so I haven’t had enough time to research and reflect on this one as much as I would have liked. But one that...
Strip clubs provide Detroit jobs too, Pastor Winans 26 Feb 2010 | 04:15 am
After listening to the Michigan Chronicle’s Bankole Thompson yesterday on NPR’s “The Craig Fahle Show”, I gotta admit there isn’t much left for me to say about the Great Strip Club Debate in Detroit e...
Kwame Kilpatrick is Detroit’s curse 25 Feb 2010 | 04:48 am
From a writer’s perspective – especially that of a journalist – Kwame Kilpatrick is without question the gift that keeps on giving. Last year he provided the Free Press with a Pulitzer, and this year ...
Detroit suffering death by property tax – or lack thereof 16 Feb 2010 | 07:39 pm
“It’s like we’re stuck in a local depression,” Roseville City Manager Stephen Truman said Monday. “The loss of property taxes is that staggering.” Over the next two years, Roseville and other cities,...