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2013-10-27 Government
Famed museum could fall victim to Detroit bankruptcy
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Posted by Fred 2013-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 "This is really an existential threat," warned Annmarie Erickson, the museum's chief operating officer.

Mainly to my phony baloney job!
Posted by tu3031 2013-10-27 01:11||   2013-10-27 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 A sorry state of affairs, but you know where you can 'sorry' in the dictionary. Let the 'no reserve' bidding begin before the stuff mysteriously disappears.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-27 06:09||   2013-10-27 06:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Yeah, this ain't happening. The DIA hasn't relied on city funds for decades as far as acquisitions are concerned, and it would take a remarkably generous (as in appealed immediately to SCOTUS and overturned with hysterical laughter)reading of the law to rule that DIAs possessions could be sold off. The real problem here is that DIA has been a Seriously Big Dog in Detroit for nearly 75 years, and if the restructuring plans go through, they won't be any more. At the very least, the overpaid art majors who run the place will lose, as tu1031 pointed out, "their phoney baloney jobs." And these folks will fight just as hard and viciously for their rice bowls as the union thugs.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-10-27 07:21||   2013-10-27 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Detroit News editorial on the city's current candidates for mayor:
Clueless on the Detroit mayoral campaign trail
Nolan Finley

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what city Mike Duggan and Benny Napoleon are talking about on the campaign trail. Twice last week I heard the two Detroit mayoral candidates say the city has no business in bankruptcy court, doesn’t need an emergency manager, shouldn’t touch pensions or sell assets and doesn’t need to rewrite labor contracts. It makes me wonder if candidates so detached from the reality of Detroit’s financial crisis can make legitimate claims to being capable of leading Detroit out of this crisis.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-10-27 10:24||   2013-10-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Miscellaneous Detroit News article today about yet another shooting on the mean streets of Detroit:
Workers next door at ABE Auto Service heard the shots and stopped their work Friday. "We heard ‘pop, pop, pop, pop’ — about five or six rounds," said Mark Mayer, a St. Clair Shores resident who works at the shop. His co-worker, Detroit resident Jerry Miller, instinctively threw himself on the ground when he heard the shots. "I grew up on the northwest side of town," he said. "It's a natural reaction."

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-10-27 10:30||   2013-10-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Sell tickets..
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-10-27 12:00||   2013-10-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

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