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NEWS ABOUT: urban blight

urban blight stories: 3 news summaries
vandals' paradise

 Abandoned Detroit Draws 
 Pranksters, Artists 

80K empty buildings a mecca for 'urban explorers'

Nov 6, 09 5:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Detroit's 80,000 abandoned buildings, from housing projects to high-rises to industrial plants, have become a magnet for all kinds of vandals, pranksters, and urban explorers. "Mayhem. That's what they should call the place. If you decide you want to push a dump truck out of a window, this... More »

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Detroit • vandalism • urban blight

OPINION

 Dear Conan: 
 Newark's Not Funny 

O'Brien's quips make light of grim inner-city realities

Oct 13, 09 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - There have been some hilarious moments in Conan O'Brien's mock feud with Newark mayor Cory Booker, but there's nothing funny about the plight of America's inner cities, writes Bob Herbert. O'Brien and his audience are mocking a place that, like too many others in America, is "poverty-stricken, run down,... More »

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New Jersey • Newark • Conan O'Brien • Cory Booker • urban blight

OPINION

 Downtrodden Detroit 
 Can Rise Again, Green 

Cheap labor, empty factories, can-do legacy scream green revolution

Sep 24, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Detroit of Daniel Okrent’s childhood is gone. The “elm-lined streets” of the “City of Homeowners”—“the place that America once knew as the Arsenal of Democracy”—have become “the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth.” A devastating... More »

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Detroit • Michigan • racism • manufacturing • renewable energy • auto industry • politicians • urban blight • Daniel Okrent

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