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Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago: The white man’s Coleman Young?
"A fawning media of urban reporters puffed up Daley for years. According to the numbers, Mayor Daley is America’s worst Mayor [and is] leaving [Mayor-elect] Rahm Emanuel with intractable problems."
Moral reasoning in white people: Whites think "universally" in a world that thinks "tribally"
"The problem with moral universalism is that it makes it impossible to develop a similar moral sense on behalf of one’s people. As Westerners, a big part of our psychological baggage lies with post-Enlightenment universalist ideologies. They feel natural to us, whereas reasoning on the basis of what’s good for us doesn’t have any moral standing at all. It’s very difficult for us to get into the mode of 'Is it good for Europeans?' ”

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Kokomo, Indiana was the epicenter of an earthquake that was supposedly felt as far away as Ann Arbor last night. 3.8 on the Richter scale too says the blurb. I didn't feel a thing myself. - AA.com

Happy New Year Motherfucker! "Detroit city leaders ... are urging people to refrain from kicking off the new year with celebratory gunfire." - Det Freep 

"No refusal" DUI checkpoints the latest trend in public safety - WTSP TV (Tampa, FL)You can't refuse to blow into the meter because there is a judge on scene with the cops that will issue an order for an immediate blood test. Even East Germany didn't go this far.
The 48217: Detroit's far southwest highlights difficulties of reworking the city-DetMetTimes
More urban renewal schemes from city government. Why not? They've worked so well in the past.

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Detroit as an Urban Laboratory: More think-tank style noodling about turning Detroit into several smaller villages with big green "opportunity zones" in between. Maybe. But they'd have to get the SoM and City Hall and all their bullshit out of the way first.

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The great migration back to the city some urbanologists predicted hasn't happened - New Geography (Joel Kotkin)
"Friends of Israel Defense Forces," a so-called charity, is having fundraisers in LA? - iSteve
How is this even legal? If a "Friends of Hamas" fundraiser in LA were proposed, the feds would be all over it.