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Detroit fire boss: Let some vacant buildings burn. (video)
Detroit fire boss looks for cost savings, suggests allowing some vacant buildings to burn down WT news feed
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Detroit to be hit by flesh and brain-eating zombie apocalypse (but only if...
Customers would pay to be chased by professional actors and try to seek shelter in ghostly homes, factories and businesses. WT news feed
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Bloomberg: Make Immigrants Live in Detroit; If They ‘Survive 7 Years,’ Make...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York said last week that the federal government should assign immigrants to live in cities such as Detroit and “if they survive seven years” make them citizens. WT news...
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State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit
It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing. WT news feed
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Investors seek to buy island from Detroit and start a ‘new nation’ free of...
During the next three decades, the buyers would establish a ‘remarkable new nation’ of 35,000 people using private money, transforming the island into a quasi-autonomous state with its own government,...
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Michigan governor clears way for state takeover of Detroit.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder cleared the way for a state takeover of Detroit, declaring that the birthplace of the U.S. automotive industry faces a fiscal emergency and that he has identified a top...
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Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to...
In the private prison industry the more time an inmate spends in a facility, the more of a profit is reaped from the state. Ciavearella was a figurehead in a conspiracy in the state of Pennsylvania...
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A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
Petroleum Coke really is the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth, and now it is stockpiling in Detroit, thanks to Koch Carbon. bertb news feed
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Detroit at 90 Cents on Dollar Worth 100 Cents Today: Muni Credit.
Bond investors are buying the Michigan cityâs insured debt at a discount in a bet theyâll get paid regardless of the outcome of the bankruptcy threat. bertb news feed
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Detroit Citizens Protect Themselves After Police Force Decimated.
As crime hobbles Detroit’s attempts to revive itself, the city is bolstering its police department by having unarmed citizens patrol the streets in a program that costs less than annual salaries and...
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Detroit Has Gone To The Dogs… Literally
Detroit may be on its way to becoming a ghost town, but the disappearance of homo sapiens from the streets just means the largest US bankrupt city is about to have a new master – man’s formerly best...
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Detroit stopped issuing death, birth certificates after bankruptcy
Detroit’s funeral directors received this unusual text message last month. “FYI, city of Detroit can’t process death certificates because they have no paper and don’t have money to buy any.”...
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Detroit spent billions extra from pensions
Detroit’s municipal pension fund made payments for decades to retirees, active workers and others above and beyond normal benefits, costing the struggling city billions of dollars and helping push it...
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A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit
After nearly five years of planning, a large-scale attempt to turn a big chunk of Detroit into an urban forest is now underway. The purchase of more than 1,500 vacant city-owned lots on the city’s...
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Cops in bankrupt Detroit forced to buy own uniforms
The president of the Detroit Police Officers Association told a local CBS affiliate that city cops are going to have to empty out their own wallets if they want to remain fully equipped while on the...
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Detroit: The Conspirators Behind the Largest Municipal Bankruptcy Proceeding...
Two weeks of testimony in the Detroit bankruptcy case have exposed the premeditated character of the July 18 decision by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to initiate the largest municipal bankruptcy...
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Sen. Rand Paul pushes ‘Economic Freedom Zones’ for Detroit
Speaking at the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Paul, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said that the model could be used in cities and counties across the nation and said that it would allow...
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Detroit Ruling Opens Door to Pension Cuts Across the Nation
For 34 years, Gwendolyn Beasley worked as a clerk at the Detroit Public Library and paid a portion of her salary into a fund that would someday help pay for her pension. BlackListedNews.com
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How Wall Street Bankrupted Detroit – Abby Martin Interview with Richard Wolff
Abby Martin speaks with Richard Wolff, economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts about the recent district court ruling on Detroit’s bankruptcy and how it could affect the...
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Detroit bankruptcy judge blocks $165 million payment to banks
The judge in the Detroit bankruptcy case struck down a controversial proposed settlement in which the city would have paid two big banks $ 165 million. BlackListedNews.com
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