Fixing Detroit

With a USD 100 bn in orders for this new plane, Governor Rick Snyder, Detroit, and Michigan should be pursuing this opportunity very hard....

Nolan Finley wrote in the News over the weekend that he's had some conversations with Detroit officials leading him to believe that the...

Well, we've finally made it - bankruptcy. Detroit has essentially been bankrupt for years, but last week, EM Kevyn Orr finally made it ...

In the past week or so, it has come out that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is looking at liquidating the (significant) city-owned elements of...

As a frequent business traveler, I often make trips to our airport, DTW. Sometimes, I drive. Sometimes, I take a cab. Sometimes, I am dropp...

March 2013 has been a historic month for Detroit. The Governor declared the City to be in a financial emergency, which of course, was new...

It seems like the momentum surrounding the City has never been better. The investment. The enthusiasm. The energy. The new Hudson-Webber ...

With the Ilitch family finally making its intentions about a new downtown hockey arena official, and with the NHL finally resolving its...

Good news on Detroit's potential 2024 Olympic bid - the topic was the main focus of the program and discussion at the 2012 Southeast Mi...

History was made today in Lansing, as Governor Snyder signed into law several "right-to-work" bills that would make it optional f...

I've never seen the momentum, buzz, interest, investment, and other indicators around Detroit as good as they are now. It is too ba...

Interesting piece in today's Free Press about the struggle to achieve (or re-achieve, as it were) a coordinated regional mass transit s...

Voters in Michigan sent back six proposed constitutional amendments this month. It is heartening to know that citizens are at least som...

Everyone knows Detroit has shrunk by more than half over the past 50 years, to less than 750 k inhabitants. Unfortunately, according to a r...

Detroit has a lot of differentiating attributes that make it a unique and attractive candidate city for the 2024 Summer Olympics. A - HOS...

The lighting issue has gotten quite a bit of attention from local Detroit media in recent weeks, mostly because the City announced a   new...

We still have a lot of work to do to fix Detroit in the coming decade, but there are many reasons the City, the US, and the IOC should con...