The Pittsburgh makeover Mayor visits Pittsburgh in search of ideas to help here Hamilton group finds striking similarities, inspiration The possibilities are apparent on every street corner as a group of Hamiltonians travel this Pennsylvania city that is transforming itself from a steel ...

Let's create a winding stream And eventually we will see something being done to tidy up the land that got caught in last winter’s fire. Do something that has appeal to people considering ...

Editors pick: What a difference a river makes with mayors Mayor Dave Bing has appealed to Detroit's suburban neighbors to work with his administration and help pull his struggling, near-bankrupt city from its financial mire for the ...

Study on high-speed rail could make or break city A decision looms this year that could propel London to become a global economic force or banish it to the boondocks. Can farming save Detroit? Yes, a farm. A large-scale, ...

TEDxDetroit: How to harness wind energy without blades with Detroit manufacturing What if we could create wind energy without using windmills?  What if we could do it in Detroit, using the city's now-underutilized manufacturing base? That's exactly what Dawn White and her Ann Arbor-based ...

Cyclists Cause Less Than 10% of Bike/Car Accidents Whenever we write about bike/car "interactions" we get a lot of complaints that cyclists bring much of this upon themselves by blowing through red lights and stop signs, and generally cycling aggressively. While convalescing after being hit by a truck, Dr. Chris ...

Saving the economy one local book at a time So BookPeople and Waterloo called in Civic Economics, a consultancy. They went through the books and found that for every $100 spent at the two locals, $45 stayed in Austin in wages to local staff, ...

I receive a link to this blog below from a friend written by Al Martin that doesn't paint a pretty picture of Detroit and it is something that isn't totally being reported in the media. It is a bleak look at ...