Don't forsake the Motor City

Detropia

Crit

Wow, that was hard, notwithstanding the couple thousand new Volt jobs for GM at the end and the influx of young (exclusively white, from what we see) artists who can, in one city in the county, spend $50K and buy a home and a studio under one roof. Those two developments are what passes for good news, but there are heroes: a video artist (homegrown, pre-influx), the owner of a tavern a couple of blocks from a GM plant, the president of UAW Local 22--even Mayor Dave Bing (yeah, I know his name 'cause he was a star guard for the Pistons many years ago), comes across as a well-meaning guy trying to look past the standard solutions, all of which have been tried and have failed. But it's people vs. rust, and rust, as we all know, never sleeps. Brutal.

Also another reason to root for the Tigers in the World Series, even if the evil Cardinals are not their opponents.