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Why's the Detroit Mayoral Race Getting So Little Attention When So Much is On the Line?new
What's that you say? There's a mayor's race going on in Detroit? If this is news to you, or if you are vaguely aware that a mayoral primary will be held Aug. 4, but have no clue about the quintet of challengers vying to unseat newly elected incumbent Dave Bing, you can be forgiven.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
07-28-2009 |
Politics
New Fear in Chrysler Bankruptcy: Liability Claims May Be Voidednew
As currently structured, the proposed Chrysler-Fiat agreement would leave victims of allegedly defective Chrysler products sold before the deal is consummated unable to pursue claims against the automaker.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
05-26-2009 |
Business & Labor
A System of Give and Take Emerges -- Just in Time for the Hard Timesnew
Kim Hodge wasn't looking for a way to deal with hard economic times when she decided to start a "time bank" in a Detroit suburb.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
05-05-2009 |
Economy
What's God Got To Do with It?: Ron Aronson and the Politics of Religionnew
The author of books on Marxism and the French existentialists now turns to the idea of an America that's been cowed by the religious right, but that is not, in fact, so religious as most of us have been led to believe.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron and Curt Guyette |
01-07-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tax Fact & Fiction: A Closer Look at the Candidates' Plansnew
It wouldn't be an election year without candidates promising tax cuts, right? But who gets them, how much they are, what's the likelihood they can ever be made and what they say about each candidates' priorities are the bigger questions.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda and Curt Guyette |
09-30-2008 |
Politics
The Drive to Oust Detroit's Mayor Picks Up Speednew
The recall campaign has a total of 180 days to gather nearly 57,000 valid signatures to get the measure on the ballot. But, to qualify for the November election, those names have to be submitted by Aug. 1.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
07-22-2008 |
Politics
What Role Will Recycling Play in Detroit's Future?new
The issue of recycling is wrapped up in the broader debate about what to do with the massive incinerator in Detroit that burns the city's trash, as well as garbage trucked in from the suburbs, creating steam and electricity in the process.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
06-03-2008 |
Environment
Will Detroit Keep Incinerating Trash, or Seek a Greener Future?new
Confronted with that same dilemma more than two decades ago, the city responded by constructing the largest municipal waste incinerator in America. We went for the big burn -- and have been paying for it in a big way ever since.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
04-08-2008 |
Environment
Five Years in Iraq: Looking Back, the Left Was Rightnew
They take no satisfaction in knowing that they were right in opposing this ill-fated Iraq war from the outset. All they want is for people to listen to them now.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
03-25-2008 |
War
Five Years in Iraq: The Cost, So Farnew
When it comes to taking a tally of Iraq war costs, a few numbers are beyond dispute while others are more ephemeral.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
03-25-2008 |
War
The Lost Cause of the John Edwards Campaignnew
His campaign manager, David Bonior, talks about what went wrong, and what's ahead.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
02-19-2008 |
Politics
The Auto Industry's Green Horizonsnew
If this year's big North American International Auto Show had to be summed up in just one word, that word might be schizophrenic. But that doesn't quite get it. If the auto doctor practiced psychiatry, chances are good he'd diagnose this patient as having multiple personality disorder.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
01-22-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Arms Expert Scott Ritter Says the U.S. Plans to Attack Irannew
With each passing week, it seems there are more stories raising the specter of George Bush turning Afghanistan and Iraq into a bloody trifecta and attacking Iran. We talk to former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter whose book Target Iran warns of impending war.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron |
11-29-2007 |
War
John Dingell's Iraq Inkblotnew
It is odd that a seemingly straightforward piece of legislation could be a sort of political Rorschach test, with different people seeing in it very different things. But that's exactly the case with Dingell's timetable to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
11-06-2007 |
Politics
Forget Petraeus, Here's the Juan Cole Reportnew
"No happy endings in Iraq that I can see," says the University of Michigan history professor and author of the must-read blog Informed Comment.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
09-18-2007 |
War
