In the last two decades, Detroit has lost a bigger chunk of population than any other major city in the country. Detroit used to be the sixth biggest U.S. city. That's hard to believe.
We had cars. We had bars. We had Bob Seger singing about running against the wind, turning pages and going to Katmandu. I think, and I could be wrong, that Katmandu is in the U.P.
Detroit was the epicenter of the middle class. Hopefully we will continue to be so. Hopefully we will continue to be normal and average and easy to get along with.That's the Detroit area, that's the Midwest.
Back in the 1970s, my friends drove down to Houston in caravans like it was a less fruitful version of "The Grapes of Wrath."
Some of my friends came back from Texas. Some didn't. Some moved to Juarez, Mexico and became drug lords with a lot of throw pillows scattered around.
I hope that's not true.

In the last two decades, Detroit has lost a bigger chunk of population than any other major city in the country. Detroit used to be the sixth biggest U.S. city. That's hard to believe.
We had cars. We had bars. We had Bob Seger singing about running against the wind, turning pages and going to Katmandu. I think, and I could be wrong, that Katmandu is in the U.P.
Detroit was the epicenter of the middle class. Hopefully we will continue to be so. Hopefully we will continue to be normal and average and easy to get along with.That's the Detroit area, that's the Midwest.
Back in the 1970s, my friends drove down to Houston in caravans like it was a less fruitful version of "The Grapes of Wrath."
Some of my friends came back from Texas. Some didn't. Some moved to Juarez, Mexico and became drug lords with a lot of throw pillows scattered around.
I hope that's not true.