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	<title>The Detroit Blog &#187; Steven Gray</title>
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		<title>Will Philanthropists Gamble on Detroit&#039;s Schools?</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/08/06/will-philanthropists-gamble-on-detroits-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the current issue of FORTUNE Magazine, I profile philanthropist Carol Goss. Here's an excerpt: Can a cause seem so lost that not even many philanthropists feel charitable toward it? Detroit's schools have been that kind of hard case. In recent years public schools in such cities as New York, Chicago, and New Orleans have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=5474&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Detroit: Where&#039;s the Urban President?</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/08/05/letter-from-detroit-wheres-the-urban-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is zipping across the industrial Midwest lately, touting the budding recovery of the auto industry, and for good reason. His $50 billion investment in General Motors and Chrysler pulled them from the brink of collapse, potentially saving millions of jobs. At a GM assembly plant in Detroit last week, he test-drove Chevrolet's new [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=5465&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit&#039;s Natural Resource</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/07/04/detroits-natural-resource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit Salt Co.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit is known for cars and music. Natural resources? Not so much. Yet each day, 30 or so miners descend nearly 1,200 ft. beneath the city to extract salt from remnants of ancient seas that extend below much of the Great Lakes — and form one of North America's robust salt reserves. Read the full [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4992&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/07/03/detroit-10-things-to-do-in-24-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[auto industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's summer -- the best time of the year to visit the Motor City, and the Midwest. TIME just published its Detroit Travel Guide -- the 10 key things to do, where to stay, and places to eat, on a short trip. There are plenty of places we could have added to the list -- [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4977&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A City With No Parks?</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/06/24/a-city-with-no-parks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the Bing Administration has announced that, starting July 1, it will close nearly 80 parks, including in neighborhoods with some of the most engaged citizens. To some degree, the move is understandable: Detroit must sharply reduce its services to avoid bankruptcy. But the move raises several issues, like: What will happen to the parks? [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4825&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kilpatrick Saga, Next Chapter</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/06/23/the-kilpatrick-saga-next-chapter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's distraction: Detroit's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was indicted on charges that he essentially lied on his tax returns, as well as used money from a campaign and neighborhood development fund to pay for yoga lessons (who knew?), Nike golf clubs, and a specialist to repair his public image in the wake of a sex-texting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4802&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car Wars: Hope for Detroit?</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/06/23/car-wars-hope-for-detroit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[auto industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fortune's Alex Taylor III offers a terrific take on the outlook for Detroit's automakers, based partly on a new report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy. Here's an excerpt: For three decades, Japanese manufacturers have been chewing through the U.S. auto market like termites in a lumberyard. Led by Toyota, Honda, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4804&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Learning: Marijuana Colleges</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/06/21/higher-learning-marijuana-colleges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of the last two months, I've been in Louisiana, my home state, and Mississippi and Alabama covering the oil spill crisis. (Read about the mess here, here and here.) Anyway, in the new edition of TIME, I write about how the growth of marijuana colleges is taking shape in Southfield, Mich., a Detroit [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4760&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Shrink a City</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/06/21/how-to-shrink-a-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's NYT, correspondent Susan Saulny explores one of the trickiest questions facing Detroit: How to Shrink a City? Here's an excerpt: “This is by far the biggest city that has faced this challenge in this country,” said Frank Popper, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. “Some of the thinking has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4766&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sentencing of Kwame Kilpatrick</title>
		<link>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/05/25/the-sentencing-of-kwame-kilpatrick/</link>
		<comments>http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2010/05/25/the-sentencing-of-kwame-kilpatrick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in the end, Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit's former mayor, expected us to believe the hype. He stood before a judge here Tuesday to be sentenced for violating key terms of his probation in a sex-texting scandal, and offered this: “I spent a whole year feeling an enormous amount of guilt for what I did to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=detroit.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=9280242&#038;post=4445&#038;subd=timedetroit&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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