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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Philippines Suspends 11 Police In Torture Probe - International
- 8/19/2010 Associated Press
Coordinated Blasts Kill One, Injures 25 In Russia's North Caucasus - International
- 8/18/2010 Associated Press

TX Executes Gang Member For Killing 2 Girls - United States
- 8/18/2010 AOL News

Bobby Thomson, 86 - Other News
- 8/18/2010 New York Times

Video: China Mudslides Kill 1270 People‎ - International
- 8/18/2010 ITN

3 NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan - United States
- 8/18/2010 RTT News
Labor Group Mobilizing Unemployed Voters - United States
- 8/18/2010 Huffington Post

Naxals Blow Up School, Kill Contractor - Breaking News
- 8/18/2010 Sify
Update: Kidnapped Mayor Found Dead - Breaking News
- 8/18/2010 BBC News

Yemen Soldier Killed - International
- 8/18/2010 UPI
Unfolding Revelations Rock IDF Brass - Other News
- 8/18/2010 DEBKAfile

Senior Official Among 5 Dead In Helicopter Crash - Breaking News
- 8/18/2010 Hindustan Times

Video: Car Bomb Injures 30 In Russia - Breaking News
- 8/18/2010 RT
6 Killed In Fresh Iraq Violence - Breaking News
- 8/18/2010 Voice Of America

Indonesian Coral Reefs Dying At Record Pace - International
- 8/18/2010 Associated Press
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Mayor Of Detroit’s Radical Plan To Bulldoze One Quarter Of The City

How do you save a city that is dramatically declining like Detroit?  Well, for the mayor of Detroit the answer is simple - you bulldoze one-fourth of the city.  Faced with a 300 million dollar budget deficit and a rapidly dwindling tax base, Detroit finds itself having to make some really hard choices.
Detroit is estimated to be somewhere around 45 to 50 percent, and poverty and desperation have become entrenched everywhere.  In many areas of the city, only one or two houses remain occupied an an entire city block. 

Well, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing believes that the answer is to downsize on a massive scale.  Bing believes that Detroit simply cannot continue to pay for police patrols, fire protection and other essential services for areas that resemble ghost towns.

So his plan is to bulldoze approximately 10,000 houses and empty buildings over the next 3 years and direct new investment into stronger neighborhoods.

So which areas would be bulldozed and which areas would be left standing?

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Task force to decide if comments = hate crimes

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Mayor Rex Parris said at the end of a recent State of the City address that "we are growing a Christian community and we should never shy away from that." Councilwoman Sherry Marquez posted a comment on Facebook expressing outrage over an honor killing in a Muslim family, but after giving it a second though, she removed the comment an hour and a half later. Now, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the mayor, alleging he violated the supposed "separation of church and state." Late last month, CAIR asked the California Republican Party to repudiate Marquez' remarks, labeling them as "hate-filled" as well as "stereotypical and offensive."


"The task force has the ability to deem an incident under its jurisdiction a hate crime or a hate incident based on evidence that has been presented to the task force in due diligence of the process," he explains.

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