Our weekly roundup has lines from Dave Bing, Dennis Archer, Keith Crain, Stephen Clark, Nancy Kaffer, Jeff Seidel and readers.

“They don't know what the hell they're talking about.”
-- Dave Bing, on his critics in Detroit News interview

“Dumas seems to still hold her former boss in high regard, despite him being the most dithering, wishy-washy executive I can recall.”
-- Jason Kirk Harder of Durand, posting on our Facebook page about commentary by former Bing aide Karen Dumas

"Pulte is the new Comerica."
-- Aaron Foley, Detroit journalist, posting on Facebook about Pulte Group moving local HQ to South

"Goodbye sub-par house-building union-busting corporate shitheads."
-- Barbara Ingalls, Detroit reader, slamming Pulte at our Facebook page

“I am pretty sure Kevyn Orr knows what happens when you play the game of thrones.”
-- Nancy Kaffer, Free Press editorial writer, on her Facebook page

"The usual racists have stood up and thundered that those ghetto hood rats don’t deserve a great art museum, so why not sell every last watercolor?"
-- Nancy Nall Derringer, Grosse Pointe Woods blogger

"Who in the hell was that jackal EM to even float the notion of selling off DIA artworks to satisfy Detroit creditors? Give ‘em the water department or Belle Isle, but not the art dammit!"
-- Sam Riddle, Michigan Citizen columnist

“Would the Greeks ever consider selling the Parthenon? Or course not. This is appalling and disgraceful.”
-- Bill Hamilton, Michigan House Fiscal Agency analyst, reacting at our Facebook page to DIA situation

"If the banks could get bailouts, why not a city the stature of Detroit?"
-- Maureen McDonald, Detroit journalist, commenting at our Facebook page on DIA article

"Detroit News readers deserve better."
-- Allan Lengel, Deadline Detroit co-editor, urging paper to drop Frank Beckmann columns

"If you took out the dates, a lot of the Mackinac Police Conference stories would be the same each year. More action, less talk needed."
-- Dennis Lennox, Midland public affairs consultant, in tweet from island

"I think Christy McDonald winked at me while she was on TV -- either that or she had something in her eye."
-- Stephen Clark, WXYZ anchor/reporter, tweeting from Mackinac Conference

"A wink, baby."
-- Christy McDonald, PBS Detroit anchor, replying to above

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