Tweet of the Week: MonCon, MJ and a heat wave

There was a lot of stuff going on last week, and so it followed that there would be a lot of tweeting.

Monica Conyers' admission of guilt in the Synagro Sludge scandal caused a lot of chirping. The best of which comes courtesy of @rumblestrip:

Well MonCon we did pray for you, and our prayers were answered!! Enjoy that orange jump suit!!

Instead of shame, Conyers' guilty plea seemed to make a lot of tweeters optimistic.

@DougZuba: Yes Sir....last piece of trash to go...hopefully Detroit will be clean again...back to business not nonsense!!!

@Rpsawyer shared a similar sentiment: The detroit corruption MUST come to an end once and for all...I believe it can!

TinaMarie1155 summed up all these feelings in the week's best tweet about Detroit:

What can I say about Detroit, I do have hope.

So simple, so to the point, yet so true; if it's one thing Detroiters have in common, it's hope that the city will one day reclaim its greatness.

However, the week did take a more somber turn with the passing of music icon Michael Jackson. Many Detroiters offered their farewells to the "Gloved One", who got his start in the city.

@Ramiere took the opportunity to reaffirm Jackson's royalty: The King of Pop is dead. Long live the king.

@ DonnieCash found that the weather paralleled the emotion felt throughout the city:
it is raining in Detroit right now...Tears Falling For Michael Jackson...R.I.P.

Though the heat may have been oppressive, it proved beneficial to green thumbs, like @ Rhertz: My vegetable garden is loving all this heat!

But our winner? The heat caused @MissIve to start some job creation: I think I need a production assistant. Detroit film students who know how to get me a cold lemonade, STAT, please apply.

Anything that'll get those kids working is worth supporting, in our book. But are they paid by the hour or paid to scale?

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