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			<title><![CDATA[Big Mitten's 'lost decade' punctuated by big unraveling in autos]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The drip, drip, drip of job losses in Michigan isn't close to coming to an end. By 2011, according to a University of Michigan survey released today, Michigan will have lost nearly 1 millon jobs -- more than a quarter of which were lost in the past year.


That's a whole lot of not good. What it]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Peters does good, calls McCain's bluff on viability of Chrysler]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good to see that Sen. John McCain, Arizona's newest failed GOP presidential nominee, is still in the business of dumping on Detroit -- a leadership he pretty much held all by his lonesome among Senate Republicans until Tennessee's Bob &quot;Nissan&quot; Corker and Alabama's Richard]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:35:22</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GM throws Opel sale into reverse, raising transatlantic questions]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Guess the Germans didn't get what they wanted after all. Just weeks after the busy-bodies at the European Union questioned the fairness of the German government's bias in the GM-Opel-Magna-Sberbank deal, GM's new board of directors late today said it would chuck the whole deal.


The Detroit]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:49:51</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detroit chamber offers boost to would-be casinos -- in Ohio]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michigan mortgage mogul Dan Gilbert and former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer aren't the only deep-dish Detroiters pushing Ohio voters to green-light casinos for the Buckeye state.


Comes now the chief operating officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber, Tammy Carnike, who offered this in response]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:18:54</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Testy Ford-UAW contract vote spawns bad info, lame arguments]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Detroit Auto may be missing a lot of things, but the ability to summon misdirected rage amid a contract ratification vote ain't one of them. We're midway through the voting on the third concessionary contract since the national agreement was iced two years ago this month, and it still looks like]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:53</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Calling Ferdinand Pecora ... a smart reading of '30s history]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The telling thing about the political jihad unleashed this week on the bankers blamed (alone, it appears) for the global financial meltdown, is how blithely folks accept the notion that bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve are preparing to insert themselves into the pay practices of &quot;any&quot;]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:11</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pile another embarrassment on heap: DTW pols pay for support]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jai-Lee Dearing, the serial candidate for City Council, is right about one thing -- political interest groups demanding cash as a pre-condition to support particular candidates is all about Detroit's &quot;culture,&quot; as he said in an eye-opener in today's Detroit News. Which doesn't make it]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:25:18</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Education + reform + new union mindset = less poverty, more $]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a town desperate for good news, word that Robert Bobb is negotiating to extend his stay as emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools is about as good it gets. They need him. The city of Detroit needs him. DPS kids and their parents need him. The social-services budgets of the city,]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:21:18</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[So <i>now</i> the guv wants her turn at Big Mitten's budget mess?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A 'graf in today's account of the continuing disaster that is Michigan's budget negotiations jumped off the screen, mostly for its implicit absurdity:


&quot;The Legislature has passed all 15 department budget bills, but in a procedural move, the Senate is holding back six key bills,&quot; The]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:44:21</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four years on, the vanguard of Detroit Auto bankruptcies emerges]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Delphi Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy four years ago today, shaking the foundations of the Detroit auto industry. Former parent General Motors Corp. changed; the United Auto Workers couldn't fight the change; Delphi shrank -- plants, people, business lines -- to less than half its size; and]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:48:54</pubDate>
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