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Detroit's Packard Industrial Park's 3.5 million square feet is an eerie landmark in the city. Once a symbol of economic prosperity, today the sprawling, decayed frame covers 35 acres with shattered glass, dripping rust, and heaps of municipal waste such as shoes, dolls and boats. In the spring and summer parts become enshrouded in leafy overgrowth.
In many ways, The Packard factory is a symbol of The Motor City's decline from a prosperous manufacturing capital to a city in crisis.
A fire blazed through the top floors of the structure Sunday night June 28th at 7:30 p.m. Firefighters faught the blaze from the outside for hours. The fire is suspected to be arson.
Bing's campaign statement on trash incinerator
When running for Mayor Dave Bing has this to say about recycling and about his position on Detroit's method of municipal waste disposal:
Q: Do you think Detroit should continue to send garbage to its waste-to-energy incinerator?
A: In fiscal year 2007-2008, Detroit residents paid $172/ton for trash disposal – about 5 to 7 times as much as nearby suburbs, and about 14 times what private haulers paid to have their trash burned at the incinerator ($172/ton versus $12/ton).
In 2008, the city council voted to end sending our trash to its waste to energy incinerator. I support this action. Detroit can sell materials that are currently going into the incinerator on the global market. The city can not sell what now it burns. That is more money that could be earmarked for our deficit. I have been informed that of the nation's 30 largest cities, Detroit is the only major city without some type of curbside recycling program. While confronting our mounting deficit, I can not promise a city wide curbside recycling program, I would support working with the private and non-profit sectors on pilot programs.
Q: Do you think Detroit should continue to send garbage to its waste-to-energy incinerator?
A: In fiscal year 2007-2008, Detroit residents paid $172/ton for trash disposal – about 5 to 7 times as much as nearby suburbs, and about 14 times what private haulers paid to have their trash burned at the incinerator ($172/ton versus $12/ton).
In 2008, the city council voted to end sending our trash to its waste to energy incinerator. I support this action. Detroit can sell materials that are currently going into the incinerator on the global market. The city can not sell what now it burns. That is more money that could be earmarked for our deficit. I have been informed that of the nation's 30 largest cities, Detroit is the only major city without some type of curbside recycling program. While confronting our mounting deficit, I can not promise a city wide curbside recycling program, I would support working with the private and non-profit sectors on pilot programs.
Common goals
"I am the employer of Al Sharpton.
I am the paycheck for Jesse Jackson.
Sittin' here smokin' weed,
sellin' drugs,
countin' money with a bucket of chicken and a ...
... , listinin' to Gucci Mane.
Matrin Luther King Jr. is rolling in his grave sayin' 'This Nigga!'
(Don't quote me on that. The NAACP will throw a temper tantrum.)
I have that nightmare of bad credit.
I have that dream of a big house.
Can't stop now,
I am Barack Obama's 'yes we can.'"
I am the paycheck for Jesse Jackson.
Sittin' here smokin' weed,
sellin' drugs,
countin' money with a bucket of chicken and a ...
... , listinin' to Gucci Mane.
Matrin Luther King Jr. is rolling in his grave sayin' 'This Nigga!'
(Don't quote me on that. The NAACP will throw a temper tantrum.)
I have that nightmare of bad credit.
I have that dream of a big house.
Can't stop now,
I am Barack Obama's 'yes we can.'"
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Diane Bukowski sentenced
Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, was sentenced to one year of probation, 200 hours of community service and more than $4,200 in fines this morning after being convicted of two felony counts of police obstruction last month.
Bukowski was arrested at the scene of a fatal high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Her conviction has been seen as a political attack from the Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office for her long history of covering police brutality incidents in Detroit and her criticism of the Wayne County prosecutor for not responding to these incidents.
Early in the sentencing hearing Circuit court judge Michael Hathaway said he would not give Bukowski jail time.
After imposing the sentence he said was pleased. “I’m very comfortable with the result of this case and with the sentence that I am about to impose,” Hathaway said.
Bukowski was arrested at the scene of a fatal high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Her conviction has been seen as a political attack from the Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office for her long history of covering police brutality incidents in Detroit and her criticism of the Wayne County prosecutor for not responding to these incidents.
Early in the sentencing hearing Circuit court judge Michael Hathaway said he would not give Bukowski jail time.
After imposing the sentence he said was pleased. “I’m very comfortable with the result of this case and with the sentence that I am about to impose,” Hathaway said.
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