Detroit should take a look at Denver. They retained educated workers, embraced regionalism, and put in light rail (which greatly improved city investment and development). Detroit may never be Denver, but it can try, or, at the very least, as Ken Cockrel, Jr. said, "It can be a better Detroit."
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Then there's regionalism, something that sprawl-happy Oakland County
Executive L. Brooks Patterson is allergic to. Folks in Southeast
Michigan and certainly outstate haven't gotten the message that if
Detroit dies, we all suffer. No state can survive the collapse of its
core city. The sooner we accept reality and move to metropolitan
government, as they have in Indianapolis (which has an economy
Michiganders are supposed to envy) the sooner the state can truly
recover.
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