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May 2020

May 29, 2020

Let’s talk about Malice Green

Yes, I reveal my age. Reader, imagine that I was a very precocious child, rather...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

Yes, I am secretly Team Detroit for the HQ2

It's completely implausible. Detroit is a wreck in all sorts of ways -- the functional...

August 2017

August 07, 2017

Why I’m not (planning on) seeing “Detroit”

Why am I starting this post off with an image of Michigan as a decal...

July 2017

July 09, 2017

Has Detroit turned a corner?

One meme that Glenn Reynolds and others favored for quite a while consisted of listing...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

Could Betsy De Vos solve the Two-Income Trap?

The nomination of Betsy De Vos to head the Department of Education has brought up,...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Today’s nonsense: “Affordable housing” politics in Detroit

This would be nothing unusual in many metro areas: a requirement that builders of new...

September 07, 2016

A day at Greenfield Village

The Wright brothers' bicycle shop. The back workshop. Henry Ford's boyhood home. And workshop. Thomas...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Help wanted: Cars! (and: you can take the girl out of Michigan . . .)

So my youngest son turned 9 last May, which means that our two cars also...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

Update on Detroit: skills gaps, job mismatches

For you data-lovers, there's a new report out, commissioned by JP Morgan Chase, "Detroit's Untapped...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Were the seeds of Detroit’s downfall built into its very rise?

Yeah, cryptic title. I'm trying, anyway, to create the sort of clever, intriguing headlines that...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Back from The Mitten: More thoughts about Detroit

First item: For those of you who don't do Twitter, a Detroiter (besides the one...

March 27, 2015

Report from The D: it takes more than a Whole Foods to revive a city

Everyone's oohing and aaahing about the claimed revival of Detroit, as epitomized by the new...

February 2015

February 22, 2015

Parking a link: on Detroit suburbs

If you have no connection to Detroit, this piece, "Does your Detroit suburb suck? An...

February 20, 2015

From the library: Burn

Yeah, so this is a film, not a book. It's about firefighters in Detroit, and...

February 09, 2015

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Back from the Mitten: For what it’s worth, Detroit is trying

Once again, a few impressions of Detroit after our visit there over Thanksgiving. Growing up,...

November 29, 2014

Detroit and Immigration

Just an observation from our travels in The Mitten:At a Kohl's, at Noodles & Company,...