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I’m from Detroit but go to college in Ohio and every time I visit home it seems to get a bit worse, more abandoned houses, etc. I love Detroit because it made me who I am but we’ve got a long way to go. I really wish the media would show some of the good about the city though.

The media will never show positive images, or tell good stories. Positive doesn’t sell.  It is always a shame to see your childhood memories become defunct with time and with economic conditions. Thanks for the response.. I hope everything will work out..

I am from Detroit, and I dont get why the media is so hard on us, even the pictures you posted make us look like Bosnia in 1994. We are a proud people, with history, but extremely bad leadership. The only reason we are bankrupcy is because of those in charge. Sadly it’s like a mafia run city. Except the mafia would do much better.I bet you will be afraid to print this

Interesting point on the MOB. Well taken. I am brave enough to publish

Detroit files for bankruptcy

The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation’s iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems. This is rather unprecedented.. From all those images of a vacant and … Read moreDetroit files for bankruptcy