Voices include Griswold loft tenants, Horace Sheffield III, Wojo, Jack Lessenberry and Judge Steven Rhodes.
"The more you watch the Pistons, the more disgusted you should get with the players."
-- Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News sports columnist
“Our greatest fear is the complete sterilization of downtown Detroit . . . and our great city ends up looking like a damn airport cafeteria.”
-- Gustav Brovold and Andrew Roberts, blogging at Vice about evictions at 1217 Griswold
“Change begets innovation. Instead of bitching, do something awesome. There are plenty of dirt-cheap apartments and houses all over Detroit. . . . Step up..”
-- Kristina Rafalski, Detroit mortgage banker, commenting on above
"The congressman [John Conyers] is not the person he once was. The congressman is not all there.”
-- Rev. Horace Sheffield III of Detroit, quoted by Detroit News
"Why doesn't the fact that . . . you feel the need to assert so many different theories . . . suggest that none of them are right?"
-- Steven Rhodes, Detroit bankruptcy judge to attorney, tweeted by Nathan Bomey of Freep
“I am not the enemy. If the GOP wants to appeal to more than just far-right extremists, the party’s grassroots would be wise to focus on the enemies within.”
-- Chad Selweski, Macomb Daily columnist
“Bob King has failed. . . . He will leave office this summer, without having organized a single foreign-owned plant or having done anything to roll back the hated two-tier wage rate.”
-- Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio commentator, on UAW’s president
“The United Auto Workers union ran into organized labor’s worst enemy: a happy workforce.”
-- Detroit News editorial on VW workers’ vote in Tennessee
“Ficano needs to hop aboard the ‘Do The Right Thing’ train and find a new job.”
-- Allan Lengel, Deadline Detroit columnist
