Voices include Nolan Finley, Aaron Foley, a Detroit pensioner, Wojo and a Lions fan.
"No one should take anything for granted, and the Tigers certainly aren’t."
-- Bob Wojnowksi, Detroit News columnist
“This is not a dictatorship. I am not a slave. I earned my pension.”
-- Sheilah Johnson, 28-year Detroit worker at bankruptcy hearing, quoted by Detroit News
"I do wonder if [Techonomy and TED-type conferences] are doubling as excuses to pass around business cards and eat sliders on toothpicks.”
-- Aaron Foley, Jalopnik Detroit blogger
“It’s so easy for reporters to write on the Lions. . . Just file your story and use it for the next season. And the next and the next.”
-- Kathi Santi Wright of Macomb Township, in Detroit News letter
“Tea Partiers mostly refuse to learn what the Common Core education standards really are, but hate Snyder for approving them.”
-- Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio commentator
“Many of them (tea party activists) are actually an invasive species, they are not Republicans.”
-- Greg McNeilly, politics consultant, quoted by Detroit News
“Rep. Gary Peters jumped on the caboose of a moving train and now wants to pretend he’s the conductor.”
-- Nolan Finley, Detroit News columnist, on federal Detroit aid push
