Voices include the DIA director, a Brooklyn writer, a Deadline reader and a Free Press reader.
““I will have to be dismissed before any art is taken.”
-- Graham Beal, DIA director, in Detroit News
“I'd been looking for some badass Detroit merchandise that would make me feel edgy just for having visited. Something with skulls+Detroit.”
-- Cheryl Moch, Brooklyn writer, in blog post on three-day Metro Detroit tour
“Thanks, local media, for aiding and abetting a possible exploitation of Detroit's ruin by people not even from here.”
-- Aaron Foley, Jalopnik Detroit blogger, on coverage of stray dogs count
“The dogs are not entirely sitting around waiting to be counted.”
-- David Rudolph of Detroit Dog Rescue, commenting to WWJ on outsiders’ two-day visit
"The goats would be eaten by the packs of wild dogs."
-- David Paul Dogonski, commenting at our Facebook page on livestock lawn-cutting idea

“Common Core will make your kids common. If it came out of Washington you know it stinks!”
-- Bob Quay of Novi, in Free Press letter
“The tables are turning on the tea party, at least in Michigan.”
-- Nolan Finley, Detroit News columnist
“Those who pony up big bucks in judicial races seldom do so just for the pleasure of helping elect the best legal mind possible.”
-- Phil Power, Center for Michigan chairman, in Bridge Magazine column
“Dear world of folks who attempt to write about music -- Detroit music did not start with Motown.”
-- Susan Whitall, Detroit News writer, posting on her Facebook page
“That Internal Affairs guy [on ‘Low Winter Sun’] is way too polished for this town. Sorry, DPD, but you know it's true.That ain't Gary Brown, that's for sure.”
-- Darrell Dawsey of Deadline Detroit, live-blogging on AMC show