9. November 2005 • Murph
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Detroit News:
Incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick claimed victory today in the Detroit mayoral race after a long, tense election day that saw him trailing challenger Freman Hendrix until the very end.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Kilpatrick had 53 percent of the vote, compared with 47 percent for Hendrix. The challenger had yet to concede.
“We had people power,” Kilpatrick told supporters at a 2:30 a.m. celebration. “Some of y’all are just plain crazy, because you had no business standing up … you had no business knocking on doors, we couldn’t win. And now, the whole country that’s been watching this race, they say you’re crazy like a fox.”
Well, that’s surprising.
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—tom Nov. 9 '05 - 03:21PM #
Currie is partly vindicated, but on the other hand was soundly voted out of office. City council looks somewhat saner, but it remains to be seen whether they’re up for the job. And does a former council member now have a tacit position in a Kilpatrick administration? Sigh. The good news is, it can’t get any worse for Detroit…
—Young Urban Amateur Nov. 9 '05 - 03:22PM #
Uncool cities:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7072&AuthKey=864b5d0a0841d041edb673e66804aea5&issue=510
—mw Nov. 9 '05 - 05:07PM #
—Young Urban Amateur Nov. 9 '05 - 06:15PM #
I think Florida and others are drunk on the Jobs/Wozniak success myth – get enough “creatives” together in one place and pretty soon companies like Apple will pop up. Detroit’s got plenty of garages – if we could only get more people into those garages, with soldering irons instead of guitars, we’d have all the jobs we could want!
—Murph. Nov. 9 '05 - 06:19PM #
For those interested in these sorts of things, an outfit called Preservation Wayne have a number of tours of different parts of Detroit, with emphasis on older buildings and neighborhoods. I’ve taken several and can highly recommend them.
—tom Nov. 9 '05 - 06:22PM #
As a consolation, you can hear my rap song “Kwame Got Fat”, at http://d-bo.com/kwamegotfat.html …
—David Boyle Nov. 9 '05 - 06:51PM #
For some reason the image evoked by the words “Cass Corridor” among non-Detroiters are still stuck in the 1950s, when the neighborhood was Detroit’s drug and prostitution district.
—Larry Kestenbaum Nov. 9 '05 - 08:13PM #
I’ll see your http://casscorridor.com/ and raise you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown,_Detroit
I was there just recently, and along Cass, 2nd, 3rd, near the WSU campus were a bunch of banners proclaiming the area to be Midtown.
—tom Nov. 9 '05 - 08:29PM #
Cass Corridor is bounded by the Fisher Freeway, Woodward Ave, Lodge Freeway, and West Warren.
Banners on light poles are not generally put up by people in the neighborhood, or even by community groups, but by the city government’s PR flacks. My understanding is that the “Midtown” concept comes from the planning office, not the neighborhood.
My only point here is that, contrary to what I think you were implying, Cass Corridor has not been superseded as a neighborhood identity by the Midtown marketing ploy.
—Larry Kestenbaum Nov. 9 '05 - 10:28PM #
The area known as Midtown has an organization called the UCCA, University Cultural Center Association. www.detroitmidtown.com They are working on development programs, a new greenway, and tons of other stuff. The Cass Corridor is generally the area west of woodward in the Midtown area. It’s a nice place and getting better every day. If anyone wants a tour let me know.
—Rohde Nov. 10 '05 - 12:08AM #
—Chuck Nov. 10 '05 - 12:42AM #
—tomo Nov. 10 '05 - 01:41AM #
—tom Nov. 10 '05 - 01:46PM #
—Larry Kestenbaum Nov. 11 '05 - 03:57AM #