Detroit Mayor and national embarrassment Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to prison for violating the terms of his bond on dubious grounds. Remember in the movie Robocop, where the evil corporation wanted to completely level Detroit and rebuild a new corporate utopia on top of its rubble? Seemed an invidious plot in the film, but I think now would be the time to put that plan into effect. OCP where are you? Old Detroit has lost any remaining respect for itself by allowing this man to remain in office.
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I seem to recall that Detroit’s suburbs are doing much better than the city itself. If that’s true, the easiest thing to do might be to turn control of the city over to said suburbs.
I like the idea, however people moved to the surrounding suburbs to get away from the city’s problems. Not exactly an act of volunteering to fix them.
Depends on how many of those problems CAN be escaped by such a move. How is the state of the city schools effecting the availability of qualified labor in the suburbs? Is some of the city’s crime bleeding over? How much traffic has to pass through the city, either to other suburbs or to places within the city? To the extent the city still effects them, it would be in their best interests to take over.