Search Results for: Detroit

What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?

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From Detroit: A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the unraveling of America’s middle class.

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Nov 9, 2010
Length: 31 minutes (7,927 words)

Tigertown

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No city has been harder hit by the economic downturn than Detroit, and that forced Tigers owner Mike Ilitch to take a most drastic measure: He raised the payroll and reinvested dramatically in his franchise.

Published: Sep 28, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,951 words)

The Wrong Turn

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Onetime Detroit Lions quarterback Jeff Komlo was a success in sports, business and love. So why did he die alone, on the run, thousands of miles from home?

Published: Jun 15, 2009
Length: 43 minutes (10,959 words)

The End of the Affair

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The fate of Detroit isn’t a matter of economics. It’s a tragic romance, whose magic was killed by bureaucrats, bad taste and busybodies. P.J. O’Rourke on why Americans fell out of love with the automobile.

Published: May 30, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,974 words)

The Eminem interview

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The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit

Published: May 13, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,728 words)