The date of this cranberry career-enhancing newsletter is 1974, but it might be yesterday and tomorrow. In October 1973, I returned East from San Francisco before there was a Silicon Valley. In San Francisco: I wrote television reviews for the Village Voice. I covered the World Series of rodeo for the Saturday Review. Before San […]
Archives for February 2015
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll entry on The Supremes
As anyone who has anything to do with me knows, I have become obsessed with the future of Detroit since early October. I think about Detroit all the time. I worry about its future. I reminisce about its past. I love Detroit. ++++ Shortly after I left the U.S. Department of Labor as a political […]
Significance of the Detroit Riots of 1967 for current efforts to rebuild Detroit
“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” The African-American community in Detroit has still not recovered from the cataclysmic Detroit Riots of 1967. Tanks rolled in the streets of a U.S. city as the phrase coined during the iconic Los Angeles Watts Riots two years previously resonated through the […]
Must watch video on Detroit’s “Renaissance”
“Part of Detroit’s problem is we put too much emphasis on manufacturing and plant-type jobs. We did not spend enough time thinking about how we might reinvent ourselves in terms of what is going to happen in the future. Our greatest resource is our people and what we produce. People are going to find out, […]
February 2015 motto
“Finance was soon a power of its own. It principal driving force was Bob McNamara, and [his] basic philosophy was: “Whatever the product men and the manufacturing men want, deny it. “Make them sweat and then make them present it again, and once again delay it as long as possible. If in the end it […]