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Tag: snowBy JGillman, Section News
Michigan has followed the lead of Minnesota and Wisconsin with its own weekend blizzardy thing. I am pretty sure there isn't a place to hide where the wind isn't blowing and snow making driving a little difficult.
I love the snow personally, but coming back up north on Saturday night after an affair in Grand Rapids, found us in the company of a slew of motoring eco sized cars... in the ditch, beams blazing brightly toward the sky. The common denominator between them, and their cousins still on the road was indeed their size and ability to take a wind swipe, or get their tires into a snow groove and a concurrent inability to stay straight. The poor little things just cannot take an oncoming storm very well. As the nuclear white knuckles of young inexperienced drivers saw similarities with the older candle burning brightness of knuckles of yore, it took no engineering degree to determine there were SOME cars that ought not be on the road. The cars our liberal friends would 'necessarily' put us into. The cars that do not distinguish so well which side of the white line they prefer to travel on a blustery winter night in Michigan. (7 comments, 681 words in story) Full Story By Nick, Section News
No surprise that folks are leaving Detroit. As we've discussed recently, they're leaving Michigan, period. Still, every time I read an expert carve the numbers up in new and creative ways I'm staggered a bit.
The Detroit News details the latest report this morning, this one from the Brookings Institution, that shows most big cities are home to about 55% of the total jobs in the metro area, the remaining 45% more than ten miles from the "city center." Detroit is home to only 23% of the jobs in her metro area, with 77% more than 10 miles away, and the effect that has on native Detroiters is pretty heavy.
It means many low-income and minority residents are often isolated from job opportunities, she said, and it adds to commute times and expenses. On a morning like this, that's an especially frustrating reality. We're talking, what, five inches of snow in the D? Love these Michigan springs. But... and this is a big but... John Cherry may actually have a silver lining in all of this. The Democrats presumptive 2010 Gubernatorial candidate has been running around the state telling voters and newspaper editorial boards (those still in operation) both that the record of his administration these last six-plus years is a strong one and that he'll be proud to run on that record next fall. The Associated Press offers a headline this morning that provides the man with the perfect "I told you so!" Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels That, my friends, is the way you find a silver lining. Read on... (1 comment, 440 words in story) Full Story |
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