“Detroit” on The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller Social Experience

Let your friends help you discover the best news, features and videos on TheDC. Publish what you read and maintain full control.


 
May 18th, 2012

Michigan politicians met in downtown Detroit on May 14 to break ground on a new Whole Foods Market with hopes of boosting the area’s economy and bringing new jobs to the city. (more)

April 9th, 2012

Michigan Department of Transportation director Kirk Steudle condemned the hacking of an electronic highway road work sign that was changed to read “TRAYVON A NIGGER.” (more)

April 5th, 2012

Just when you thought the only thing missing from the world was a bronze homage to RoboCop, Detroit up and announces plans to put a life-sized statue of police officer-turned cyborg in the city. (more)

January 17th, 2012

Full disclosure: Two of my friends had their cars broken into in downtown Detroit last week. These incidents happened within days of each other along the same city block in the entertainment district behind Detroit’s Fillmore and Fox theaters – the exact area that this story references. (more)

December 30th, 2011

In an appearance on Fox News Channel aired on Thursday night’s “On the Record with Greta Van Sustren,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh explained, in no uncertain terms, how to fix Detroit, where unemployment and poverty are rampant. His solution: End liberalism. (more)

December 7th, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked a Kid Rock anthem as his campaign theme song. (more)

October 21st, 2011

DETROIT, Mich. — About 200 anti-capitalist activists have slept in a Hooverville-style tent city for the last seven days that quickly devolved into a mire of mud and filth after a week of steady rain, cold winds and typically gray October skies. Although the number of “occupiers” occasionally dwindles to fewer than 100 as temperatures have fallen, the themes emerging from this “Obamaville” are visible and jarring. (more)

October 10th, 2011

WARREN, Michigan (AP) — Union leaders from Chrysler plants around the country were told to stay in Detroit for two more days as negotiations toward a new labor contract continue with the company. (more)

September 27th, 2011

Ford Motor Co. pulled an ad because of pressure from the Obama administration, the Detroit News’ Daniel Howes wrote in his column Tuesday. A campaigning Obama had Ford scratch the ad, he charges, because it presented a political liability in souring the public’s views of the bailout. (more)

September 21st, 2011

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — A car bomb caused a powerful explosion on a Michigan street that seriously injured a father and his two sons, who are “very fortunate” to have survived the attack, which turned their vehicle into a blackened hunk of metal, a federal official said Wednesday. (more)

September 5th, 2011

While warming up a Detroit crowd for President Barack Obama’s Labor Day speech, Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. said unions need to fight a “war” against tea partiers and congressional Republicans. “President Obama, this is your army,” Hoffa said. “We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and take America back to where America we belong.” (more)

September 5th, 2011

DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said. (more)

July 28th, 2011

Detroit— In two weeks, the health of Detroit neighborhoods will determine what services they get, according to a plan unveiled today by Mayor Dave Bing. (more)

May 10th, 2011

A damning report released this month showing that nearly half of all adults in Detroit, Michigan are functionally illiterate has pundits and officials playing the blame game. (more)

May 9th, 2011

Victor Davis Hanson writes at Pajamas Media of the cradle-to-grave-welfare-state disaster that California has become. In specific, he writes of California’s underground economy and of the widespread unemployment in the San Joaquin Valley. Like me, Hanson has watched unfettered illegal immigration, generous entitlement handouts, and one-party Democratic rule destroy the state. (more)

April 4th, 2011

Can this tour survive? (more)

April 1st, 2011

Every once in a while, a tyrant decides to voluntarily give up power. (more)

March 29th, 2011

It will take more than high gas prices to deter Sam Bazzi from his unusual tribute to the 44th president. (more)

March 17th, 2011

Chrysler doesn’t understand public relations. Just a week after the person manning the organization’s official Twitter account tweeted that “no one [in Detroit] knows how to ****ing drive,” the company launched a battle against a small t-shirt shop in Detroit’s city limits. (more)

February 17th, 2011

The credits are about to roll on Michigan’s Hollywood adventure. (more)

STAY CONNECTED TO