A tighter roundup than usual this week (don't ask) includes comments from Aaron Foley, Charlie Wollborg, Henry Payne, a political analyst and a Deadline reader.
"This year we had 100-plus applications for 24 slots. We could do one of these every month."
-- Charlie Wollborg, TEDxDetroit organizers, telling Fast Company about Oct. 2 event speakers
"The world doesn't revolve around Midtown. And not every guy under 30 wants a loft with exposed brick walls and shit."
-- Aaron Foley, Jalopnik Detroit blogger
"What a sick bastard."
-- Heather Muir of Grand Haven, commenting on Bob Bashara at our Facebook page
"It appears just becoming a candidate has vastly improved Benny Napoleon’s strategy for crime fighting, something apparently he could not do as a Detroit police chief or Wayne county sheriff."
-- Jeff Bickerstaff of Grosse Pointe Shores, in Detroit News letter
"While Bentivolio poses as an anti-Big Government crusader, he drifts to fringe theories on the right and left. Such wanderings do not serve his 11th District constituents well."
-- Henry Payne, Detroit News cartoonist, in blog post on Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.
"The Ron Paul crowd will support Bentivolio. He’s the real deal as far as they are concerned.”
-- Bill Ballenger, Inside Michigan Politics newsletter founder, quoted in by Detroit News
"You don't have to be single while trying to pick up girls at Whole Foods, but you should be."
-- Ryan Patrick Hooper, Detroit writer, in lighthearted dating tips post
