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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | 1:28 pm
[istopi]
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| | Thursday, January 26th, 2006 | 9:06 pm
[nazonatte69]
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| 6:11 pm
[nazonatte69]
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BEWARE
Michigan will launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 1 million will go to pay state troopers overtime. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 6 main intersections and highways. I-75 north and south I-94 (from Ann Arbor to Port Huron) Entire length of I-696 I-275 north and south M-10 Lodge Fwy I-96 from Detroit West to M-14 Now, 5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every state trooper is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers and they are bringing all their part timers on full time. Wear your seat belt, nothing hanging from the rear view mirror, do the speed limit (not a mile over) use cruise control if you have it, no cracks in your windshield, use your turn signals. | | Saturday, January 21st, 2006 | 5:57 pm
[xcopy]
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| | Friday, December 2nd, 2005 | 10:59 am
[chrisrohn]
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| | Monday, November 21st, 2005 | 5:03 pm
[jarodm]
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| | Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 | 3:45 pm
[nazonatte69]
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I Need Help
I'm currently trying to finish this personal album project and I don't know of any studios (that aren't trying to charge you an arm and a leg) to finish record the rest of my songs in. I'm at school in the Ypsi area most of the time but at home some weekends in the Oak Park/Ferndale area. Can ANYONE help me out? | | Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 | 11:52 pm
[kawaiinose]
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not sure if anyone reads this community anymore- it seems to be a bit dead, but just in case- this was on the radio today. click here (mp3) | | Monday, September 12th, 2005 | 9:40 am
[revgeorge]
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| | Sunday, July 31st, 2005 | 1:04 am
[jarodm]
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Mass transit from Ann Arbor to Detroit?
$100 million earmarked for a mass transit project between Ann Arbor and Detroit as part of the recently passed transit bill. Supposedly, this is just for 'engineering work' as light rail costs anywhere between $30 and $100 million per mile. It will be interesting to see if this gets momentum to actually move forward. | | Friday, June 3rd, 2005 | 7:47 pm
[declanmcmanus]
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Also, get moving in same direction on public transit
Detroit Free Press (online) June 3, 2005 Link HereSoutheast Michigan's pathetic public transportation system will not be a burning issue at the Detroit Regional Chamber's three-day conference on Mackinac Island. But the city and suburban leaders getting around in horse-drawn taxis ought to take the opportunity to talk over some transportation funding issues that threaten to divide the region further and derail all progress to date. Disputes over how to split inadequate state money for public transportation could easily break the fragile coalition that created the new Detroit Area Regional Transportation Authority. The City of Detroit is already fighting transit agencies around the state over whether its downtown People Mover should, for the first time, get $3 million in state aid. The People Mover is entitled to state transit aid, but every dollar it receives means less money for strapped bus systems statewide, including the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation, or SMART. Those cuts would come on top of the reduced state aid SMART will suffer because the Detroit Department of Transportation is cutting about $25 million a year in service. SMART and DDOT get their state aid as a single unit, with 65 percent going to DDOT and 35 percent to SMART. So cuts in Detroit bus service will mean less state aid for both systems. Things could get even thornier. Some suburban officials are complaining -- quietly, for now -- that the 16-year-old formula for dividing state aid between DDOT and SMART has become more and more unfair as SMART's ridership increases and DDOT's drops. By some estimates, the formula will cost SMART $13 million next year. Southeast Michigan, working with DARTA, must find a way to resolve serious and emerging disputes over money, without meddling from the Legislature, or lose any hope of developing a truly regional transportation system. The region should start by lobbyingfor more statewide public transportation aid. Inadequate funding now pits one poorly funded system againstanother. The dream of a regional transportation authority and system began, with much fanfare, at the Mackinac Island conference four years ago. Political bickering and tough economic times have stalled progress ever since. Now emerging disputes over how to pay for a regional system threaten the entire plan. Southeast Michigan leaders should use part of the weekend to start working out these problems before they are run over by them. | | Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 | 10:49 am
[denisbaldwin]
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| | Monday, April 4th, 2005 | 6:54 pm
[xarconix]
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| | Friday, March 11th, 2005 | 5:24 pm
[declanmcmanus]
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| | Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005 | 12:18 pm
[childe]
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| | Wednesday, February 16th, 2005 | 11:49 am
[denisbaldwin]
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From Craigslist (Urban Sprawl)
This guy brings up some points. Thought some of you might have some counter opinions. http://detroit.craigslist.org/rnr/59982492.htmlDetroit transit will speed urban sprawl Reply to: anon-59982492@craigslist.org Date: 2005-02-16, 11:43AM EST If the plans of seting up a raised rail system down woodward thru Ferndale and Birmingham become reality, the result will be an increase in whites moving out of the Northern Detroit suburbs and North into Livingston and other Northern counties. This is compounded by the Oakland county schools of choice which brings a lower socio-economic variety of people into school systems they simply do not belong in. The real root of the problem stems from the awful performance of the Detroit public school system which has miserably failed us. People are moving out of the city in droves and want to get their children into a better situation (who can blame them). The result is a lot of pissed off white folks who are forced thru unnecessarily high property taxes to pay for the failure of the Detroit schools. Simply put, the city needs to go into receivership and the schools taken over by people that actually give a shit about educating the kids instead of taking entitlements and stealing the rescources. The state needs to pump a lot more money into the Detroit schools and hire a Lansing based controller to manage the money for the individual schools. Also, lets start to agressively audit and punish the current administrators for totally failing to educate the kids of Detroit. In 10 years Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Royal Oak and similar cities will be expierenceing urban blight and failure just like what has happened to Southfield and Oak Park. The fact is that when blacks move ionto these areas, the property value falls because of pervasive urban blight, lack of maintenance by the residents who cant pick up a goddam paint brush or pick up garbage on their own fucking street and predatory crime. Its just sad. Let the third round of the white flight begin. I have just put my house in Berkley on the market to get away from this crap, at this point I don't have any problem even selling my house to blacks, something I have said in the past I would never do. If there are any single black mothers looking for a house in Berkley, let me know. I won't even talk about the fathers, most blacks in Detroit don't know who their fathers are anyway. It's truly sad to see the way you all live your lives in Detroit, just clean the shithole up and leave us in the suburbs alone, PLEASE. | | Monday, February 14th, 2005 | 4:16 pm
[declanmcmanus]
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Um, Hello. My name is America. I am...an oil addict.
Oil Addicts Anonymous Open Chapters Across the MidwestCHICAGO, Illinois, February 14, 2005 (ENS) - A new organization is being founded this month in cities across the Midwest - Oil Addicts Anonymous - modeled after the multitude of successful 12 step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Organizers say, "The first step on the road to recovery is simple: admitting we have a problem. Join hundreds of patriotic citizens by taking the first step together." The first chapter was founded in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday by citizens who said they came together to admit that "we as Americans are addicted to oil" and are "ready to take responsibility for this harmful addiction." "My name is Austin King and I'm an oil addict,” declared Madison, Wisconsin Alderman Austin King. “Having recognized that we all have a problem here, we must work vigilantly to kick the habit. At the national level, we must hold corporations like Bank One and Ford accountable for keeping us hooked and enabling our oil addiction. At the local level we need to must work to stop suburban sprawl, support walkable infill development, and invest in public transportation, bicycle accommodations, and pedestrian safety." The United States consumes more oil and emits more greenhouse gases than any other nation on Earth, campaign organizers point out. With less than five percent of the world’s population, the United States consumes more than a quarter of the world’s oil. According to statistics from the Energy Information Administration and the United States Census Bureau, Americans use more oil per person than any other developed nation. These facts are persuasive to many university students to want to help protect the environment. Two more chapters of Oil Addicts Anonymous were formed the Thursday in Illinois at the University of Illinois in Urbana and Illinois State University in Normal. Organizers are in the middle of a 10 day hybrid car tour through the Midwest to help found chapters today in Richmond, Indiana; Tuesday in Detroit; Wednesday in Ann Arbor; and Thusday in East Lansing, Michigan. The 10 day tour will culminate in Chicago with a weekend action summit cosponsored by the University of Chicago ECO aimed at giving citizens the skills they need to intervene and break their oil addiction. Rainforest Action Network is spearheading the campaign, and at least 15 other organizations are participating. Sarah Connolly, an organizer with Rainforest Action Network’s Zero Emissions Campaign, says the campaign is targeting the Ford Motor Company because the overall average fuel efficiency of Ford’s fleet today is 18.8 mpg, last among the top six automakers. “Under Bill Ford, Jr.’s watch, Ford Motor Company’s EPA fuel efficiency ranking has plummeted to an abysmal last place for five straight years,” said Connolly. “From subcompacts to SUVs, Ford's current cars and trucks get fewer miles per gallon on average than its Model-T did 80 years ago. Gas guzzling is a dangerous addiction, and Ford Motor Company doesn’t know when to say when.” The other immediate target of the campaign is JPMorgan Chase, a financial firm oil investments. "They financed the OCP oil pipeline in Ecuador, which transports heavy crude oil from Ecuador’s eastern rainforest region to the Pacific coast, damaging fragile ecosystems and communities along its entire route," Oil Addicts Anonymous organizers point out. In 2002, JP Morgan Chase was the largest financer of U.S. oil and gas companies, arranging loans worth more than $18 billion, representing more than a third of the market. In August 2003, JPMorgan Chase was chosen to lead a consortium of international banks in the takeover of the Trade Bank of Iraq. The purpose of the Bank was to facilitate imports of much-needed equipment and supplies, while freeing up exports, particularly of oil. Participating organizations include: Campus Greens, Four Lakes Green Party, Green Progressive Alliance, the Indy, Madison InfoShop, MASH, Peregrin Forum, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Student Peace Action Network, Students for Environmental Concerns-UIUC, Students Improving the Lives of Animals, VIP Environment, Wisconsin Environmental Jewish Initiative, and the Wisconsin Environmental Law Society. | | Thursday, January 13th, 2005 | 8:53 pm
[declanmcmanus]
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Detroit Area Regional Transportation Authority Begins Workshop Series
Distribution Source : PRNewswire Date : Thursday - January 13, 2005 DETROIT, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to move aggressively and creatively forward the future of public transportation in Southeast Michigan, the Detroit Area Regional Transportation Authority will hold several workshops to educate its board members and other interested parties on transit issues. The first of three workshops will be held Jan. 14 at the Michigan Intelligent Transportation Center, 1050 6th Street in Detroit, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. This workshop is open to the public and will cover transit budgeting and transit alternatives to construction. A complete workshop agenda is available at http://www.darta.info/ . ( Read more... ) | | Monday, December 20th, 2004 | 5:53 pm
[declanmcmanus]
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Urbanite Flight
"... Improving public transportation should help retain older residents with less mobility, as well as attract younger people, who are more likely to hop on a rail car or bus."Detroit Free Press, December 20, 2004 Southeast Michigan has long suffered a population flight from its older communities into the suburban fringe. Now a regional planning agency points out another costly trend: a net loss of about 9,000 people a year, as more people move out than in. A failure to reverse this loss will mean less political clout, a weaker economy and more stagnant communities. ( Read more... ) | | Saturday, December 18th, 2004 | 10:08 pm
[dilettante313]
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ANOTHER GOOD RESOURCE
This seems to be on point with coverage of things going on in Detroit. Might be a nice link to add to the side of the site? (whomever is in charge...that is...just a suggestion..)
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