<p>And our long “national” nightmare is over. Bring on Dave Bing!</p>
<p>And apparently, the chief of police has just annouced her retirement, too.</p>
<p>Good news for the city. I love Detroit and what a soap opera this has been.</p>
<p>He’ll resign, serve 120 days in jail, pay $1M restitution</p>
<p>AND he won’t be able to run for office for five years. Hopefully some one much more competent will take his place asap.</p>
<p>I love Detroit too. It gets such a bad rap (“Muder City”), and things like this Kilpatrick mess really don’t help!</p>
<p>and that high school graduation rate…that was a bad rap?</p>
<p>hey, I didn’t say that Detroit was Utopia. We know that the drop-out rate is bad. However, the graduation rates in Cleveland and Indianapolis aren’t so great, either, and yet those cities aren’t quite the butt of all jokes like Detroit is.</p>
<p>Oh come now, Indianapolis is the “New” Detroit. Many many jokes and mentions of murder rate. Rust Belt united.</p>
<p>Lest we forget The Basketbrawl. Two great cities demonstrating the local culture on national scene.</p>
<p>Hey, don’t blame Ron Artest going into the stands on Detroit :)</p>
<p>Obviously Detroit has its’ problems and the abysmal graduation rate is just one of them. Much of it is the result of a difficult economy and poor leadership. Hopefully with a new mayor and a new President, things will improve.</p>
<p>My point was Indy has its own reputation for poor quality of life. Well, we did get rid of Ron Artest but the poor community relations w/ Pacer Org. continues. Jokes abound.</p>
<p>Besides, what do we care about basketball? Don’t you know that this is Hockeytown??</p>
<p>Well you have a point with that claim!!!</p>
<p>Ah, ehem…the basketbrawl took place in Auburn Hills, if memory serves. Not Dee-troit.</p>
<p>thank you thank you thank you to everyone who worked on this case and forced kwame out.</p>
<p>FINALLY the city can stop being on the homepage of aol news…</p>
<p>If McCain/Palin aren’t successful in November, there’s a successful executive who could easily take over the running of Detroit. She’s got the experience!</p>
<p>Actually, I think there are plenty of people right here in Michigan who could do an excellent job (the last thing we need to do in this state is outsource any more jobs!) I was a big fan of Dennis Archer, and I’d have high hopes for Dave Bing as well (ex-Piston and successful businessman.)</p>
<p>Kwame Kilpatrick will speak to the city on television at 7:00pm tonight.</p>
<p>Stay tuned everyone!</p>
<p>Once Kilpatrick is out of jail, he can move to DC and become mayor of that fine city.</p>
<p>I can’t believe Kwame has the nerve to give a press conference today. I also couldn’t believe his arrogance in court this morning. I’m sure he’s going to say that because he couldn’t expect a fair trial that he had to plead guilty to something he didn’t do. I don’t know if I can stomache listening to him tonight.</p>
<p>astrophyicsmom :</p>
<p>If Obama/Biden aren’t successful in November, there’s a successful exec/utive who could easily take over the running of Detroit. He’s got the experience for organzing community events!</p>
<p>Just a joke in the same gest :)</p>