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Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Education, High School Dropouts, Drop Out Rate, Urban Schools, New York, Baltimore, Columbus, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Civil Rights Education, Civil Rights, American Education, Chicago, Detroit, Dropout, Education Reform, Education Civil Rights Issue, Education in America, John McCain, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?

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Make Sure that Our Country Does Not Become Detroit

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Mortgages, Unemployment, Family, Car, Service, Employment, Foreclosures, Auto, Accountability, Recession, Barack Obama, Detroit, Economy, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Jim Wallis

My brother is the COO for the largest non-profit service provider in the city. His family's home is now worth less than their mortgage -- an experience now common to many Detroit area homeowners.

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All Roads Lead to Detroit

Jon Bond | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Jon Bond

This country needs talented resources outside the auto industry to find a way to fix it, similar to the team Washington assembled in Los Alamos to develop the Manhattan Project.

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Bottom Line: 2008 Car/Truck Sales Probably Worst Since 1974

Steve Parker | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

The only other time the industry has seen a 3-million (or more) unit plunge was following the 1974 oil shortage.

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Annual Detroit Auto Festivities Heavily Scaled Back

Wall Street Journal | MIKE SPECTOR and ALEX P. KELLOGG | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

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The North American International Auto Show usually gives this downtrodden city an annual chance to celebrate with glitzy parties and celebrity sightin...

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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Chris Weigant

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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Procrastination Doesn't Fix It

Joan Blades | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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Joan Blades

Why not convert one third of the automakers' industrial capacity to building state-of-the-art wind generation? We need to be strategic in solving our economic and energy woes.

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d'Artoon: Cozy Coupe

John Krifka | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Detroit, Cartoon, Business News
John Krifka

2008-12-22-cozycoupe_fp.jpgLittle Tykes to buy General Motors? Best selling U.S. car manufacturer looks forward to securing many more years of sales and success.

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GM's Own "Heritage Collection" Is Now Up for Sale

Steve Parker | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

GM is selling off, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, memory-by-memory, the GM Heritage Collection. Finding out felt like I'd taken a punch to the gut.

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Bailout or Not, Nothing Will Be the Same for Drivers or Detroit

Trevor Traina | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

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Trevor Traina

Vehicle manufacturers must re-engage their owners and offer them innovative services. What if GM included ads in exchange for lower pricing? What if they developed an in-dash system with Google or Apple?

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White House Still "Gathering Information" While Detroit Suppliers go Bankrupt

Steve Parker | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

Even Bush doesn't want to go down in history as the man who oversaw the destruction of GM, Ford and Chrysler (I hope), and I'd guess Obama wishes he could install his own new team now and fire Paulson.

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So Much for Post-Partisanship?

Carl Pope | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Bailout, Uaw, Auto Bailouts, Detroit, Politics News
Carl Pope

It's increasingly clear that the Republican minority will be under heavy pressure to jump right in with the same scorched-earth, tactics that were used so successfully to block Bill Clinton's agenda in 1993.

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Holding the Auto Industry Hostage to Anti-Union Animus

Roger Smith, AIL | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Three Automakers, Wages, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Labor Unions, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Automaker Bailout, Bob Corker, The Big 3, Unions, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News
Roger Smith, AIL

Rep. Bob Corker and his colleagues have stooped to a new low in sacrificing the nation's economic recovery to their anti-union ideology.

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Is the GOP Risking the Economy to Win the PR War Against Unions?

Art Levine | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Republican Senators, Gop, Employee Free Choice Act, Corker, Auto Industry Bailout, Uaw, Mitch Albom, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Labor Unions, Cars, Unemployment, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Unions, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News
Art Levine

With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame game for the troubled auto industry and the failed bailout deal.

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Ditch the Automobile Altogether

Joe Lauria | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Railroads, Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Auto Industry, Greenhouse Gases, Business News
Joe Lauria

Why not take those millions of dollars that create sophisticated commercial propaganda all day on television to induce us to buy a car and put it to work reducing greenhouse gases instead?

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Motor Racing Reacts to Worldwide Recession

Steve Parker | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

With car sales suffering worldwide, the marketing and advertising budgets, where many companies keep their racing dollars, are often the first budgets to be trimmed.

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Don't Blame Japan, O.C. Welch. Blame Yourself.

Disgrasian | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Toyota, Chrysler, General Motors, Xenophobia, Detroit, Imported Cars, Ford, Auto Industry, O.C. Welsh, Business News
Disgrasian

South Carolina car dealer O.C. Welsh seems to take some comfort in taking a toe to the pup -- he released five radio ads last week attacking patriots for buying Japanese cars.

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Bailing Out Dan Quayle

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

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Paul Jenkins

The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.

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Musings II

Norman Cressy | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Senate Vote, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Gm, Chysler, Detroit, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Politics News
Norman Cressy

Weeks ago Republicans berated Democrats for suggesting that a company should be told what to manufacture -- hybrid cars, for example--that was not Government's job to do

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Cars: If "Buy American" Were History

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Auto Bailout, Cars, Auto Bailout Failure, Auto Industry, Business News
Marcia DeSanctis

For those of us raised on "Buy American," it was never about jingoistic claptrap, but about duty -- accepting the limits of Detroit's cars to support American manufacturing and jobs.

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Analysts: GM Bankruptcy Would Be Catastrophic For Economy

Reuters | Lucia Mutikani | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

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A General Motors bankruptcy would push the U.S. economy deeper into recession and cause a labor market catastrophe, highlighting why the government ha...

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Detroit Papers Looking To Cut Delivery To Three Days A Week

AP | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media

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DETROIT — The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press are leaning toward cutting home delivery to three days a week, The Wall Street Journal reporte...

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Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead

Michael Moore | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Middle Class, Detroit, Big Three, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Politics News
Michael Moore

The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

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The Mistake in Bailouts

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Bankruptcy, Bailout, Detroit, Auto Industry, Politics News
Lawrence Lessig

Perhaps the shock to banking would be too great just now. I'm willing to be persuaded that intervention is necessary there. But the more I read about the auto industry, the less I am convinced.

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