Monday, August 12, 2013
Obama family's dog Bo is flown by private helicopter to join First Family's vacation in Martha's Vineyard
Obama family's dog Bo is flown by private helicopter to join First Family's vacation in Martha's Vineyard | Mail Online: "Bo, the Obama family's beloved dog, arrived for the holiday in a MV-22 Osprey aircraft"
"Let them fly cake!"
"Let them fly cake!"
‘We Are All Trayvon’ mural debuts in Florida State Capitol
‘We Are All Trayvon’ mural debuts in Florida State Capitol:"This weekend, a new mural entitled “We are all Trayvon Martin” was unveiled inside Florida’s Capitol in Tallahassee.
It’s a lovely piece of work, featuring a man shooting a hooded figure in the back of the head.
At 10 feet long, there’s also room for the bleeding visage of Martin Luther King Jr. and the words “we are all Trayvon Martin” in multiple languages.
Apparently, that’s supposed to bring together the peoples of many nations. ...or something."
Fries with that free lunch? The problem with a $15 fast food wage.
Fries with that free lunch? The problem with a $15 fast food wage. | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Suddenly, each $15-per-hour employee costs at least $19.50 and perhaps as much as $25 per hour (depending on how the employer handles the health insurance issue).
On the other side of the ledger, the employee gets to keep about $12 per hour after payroll, federal and D.C. income taxes, not including any contribution or payment he has to make toward health insurance."
"Suddenly, each $15-per-hour employee costs at least $19.50 and perhaps as much as $25 per hour (depending on how the employer handles the health insurance issue).
On the other side of the ledger, the employee gets to keep about $12 per hour after payroll, federal and D.C. income taxes, not including any contribution or payment he has to make toward health insurance."
Spanish skyscraper missing elevators in monster goof: ‘Standard for the Future’ or sign of current decline?
Spanish skyscraper missing elevators in monster goof: ‘Standard for the Future’ or sign of current decline? - NY Daily News:"What goes up must walk down.
In what will surely go down in history as one the greatest architectural blunders, the town of Benidorm in Alicante, Spain, had almost completed its 47-story skyscraper when it realized it excluded plans for elevator shafts.
Despite its name, the InTempo skyscraper was, seemingly rushed through the blueprint process, and its attempted message of prosperity through the country's economic tumult has become one that is more fitting to the current state of things in Spain as a whole."
Girls commit dating violence as often as boys, studies show
Girls commit dating violence as often as boys, studies show - NBC News.com:
"More girls – 43 percent – than boys – 28 percent – reported committing an act of physical dating violence, said researchers who are presenting their findings beginning Wednesday at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting.
Slightly more boys – 23 percent – than girls – 18 percent – reported perpetrating at least one act of sexual violence."
"More girls – 43 percent – than boys – 28 percent – reported committing an act of physical dating violence, said researchers who are presenting their findings beginning Wednesday at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting.
Slightly more boys – 23 percent – than girls – 18 percent – reported perpetrating at least one act of sexual violence."
Michigan localities plan to sell $28 million of debt next week
Michigan localities plan to sell $28 million of debt next week | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Standard & Poor's today boosted its outlook on the district to stable from negative, with a grade one step above junk.
Terry Stanton, spokesman for Treasurer Andy Dillon, didn't immediately return a phone message or e-mail seeking comment about the sale."
"Standard & Poor's today boosted its outlook on the district to stable from negative, with a grade one step above junk.
Terry Stanton, spokesman for Treasurer Andy Dillon, didn't immediately return a phone message or e-mail seeking comment about the sale."
Many Coast West vendors paid only 8 percent on their bills as first-year music festival dissolves
Many Coast West vendors paid only 8 percent on their bills as first-year music festival dissolves | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI – The extent of the Coast West Music Festival’s first-year financial failure was driven home to an unknown number of vendors and creditors who will not be paid in full.
A letter to creditors dated Aug. 5 from the board of directors of the Muskegon Festival Group of Muskegon County stated that the non-profit festival will be able to pay approximately eight cents on the dollar to those who are still owed for goods and services provided the festival."
"MUSKEGON, MI – The extent of the Coast West Music Festival’s first-year financial failure was driven home to an unknown number of vendors and creditors who will not be paid in full.
A letter to creditors dated Aug. 5 from the board of directors of the Muskegon Festival Group of Muskegon County stated that the non-profit festival will be able to pay approximately eight cents on the dollar to those who are still owed for goods and services provided the festival."
Did President Obama break the law? Revelation of 'sealed Benghazi indictment' was against federal law - for anyone other than the President
Did President Obama break the law? Revelation of 'sealed Benghazi indictment' was against federal law - for anyone other than the President | Mail Online:
"Did President Obama break the law?
Revelation of 'sealed Benghazi indictment' was against federal law - for anyone other than the President
President Obama confirmed the existence of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi terror attack yesterday
Legal experts questioned whether the president could be held in contempt of court for his revelation"
"Did President Obama break the law?
Revelation of 'sealed Benghazi indictment' was against federal law - for anyone other than the President
President Obama confirmed the existence of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi terror attack yesterday
Legal experts questioned whether the president could be held in contempt of court for his revelation"
Many Coast West vendors paid only 8 percent on their bills as first-year music festival dissolves
Many Coast West vendors paid only 8 percent on their bills as first-year music festival dissolves | MLive.com:
"One of the festival creditors is the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, according to its President Chris McGuigan.
Within two months of the July 1-6 event, the foundation provided Muskegon Festival Group a “large” loan to pay festival “deposits” to ensure the festival was able to proceed.
Another debt that won’t be fully paid is the $1,000-a-day rental fee the county charges for use of Heritage Landing. Muskegon County Community Development Director Bob Lukens said the county received the Muskegon Festival Group letter concerning only an 8 percent payment on the $6,000 rental bill but the county has yet to hear about the $1 surcharge it receives for each festival ticket sold."
"One of the festival creditors is the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, according to its President Chris McGuigan.
Within two months of the July 1-6 event, the foundation provided Muskegon Festival Group a “large” loan to pay festival “deposits” to ensure the festival was able to proceed.
Another debt that won’t be fully paid is the $1,000-a-day rental fee the county charges for use of Heritage Landing. Muskegon County Community Development Director Bob Lukens said the county received the Muskegon Festival Group letter concerning only an 8 percent payment on the $6,000 rental bill but the county has yet to hear about the $1 surcharge it receives for each festival ticket sold."
Scientist: Activists use polar bear's death as photo-op
Scientist: Activists use polar bear's death as photo-op | The Daily Caller:
“This bear was doomed back in April by the simple act of leaving the ice so early and the biologists working the region (putting radio collars on bear) had to have known it: leaving the ice in April was not normal behavior.
I suggest they alerted their colleagues and then kept track of him until he died, so they could get a useful picture of his dead carcass,”
“This bear was doomed back in April by the simple act of leaving the ice so early and the biologists working the region (putting radio collars on bear) had to have known it: leaving the ice in April was not normal behavior.
I suggest they alerted their colleagues and then kept track of him until he died, so they could get a useful picture of his dead carcass,”
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Why can’t we talk about IQ?
Opinion: Why can’t we talk about IQ? - Jason Richwine - POLITICO.com:
MUST READ!
“IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May.
It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement.
Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted in response that a search for “IQ test” in Google’s academic database yielded more than 10,000 hits — just for the year 2013.
But Cox’s assertion is all too common.
There is a large discrepancy between what educated laypeople believe about cognitive science and what experts actually know.
Journalists are steeped in the lay wisdom, so they are repeatedly surprised when someone forthrightly discusses the real science of mental ability."
...What scholars of mental ability know, but have never successfully gotten the media to understand, is that a scientific consensus, based on an extensive and consistent literature, has long been reached on many of the questions that still seem controversial to journalists.
For example, virtually all psychologists believe there is a general mental ability factor (referred to colloquially as “intelligence”) that explains much of an individual’s performance on cognitive tests.
MUST READ!
“IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May.
It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement.
Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted in response that a search for “IQ test” in Google’s academic database yielded more than 10,000 hits — just for the year 2013.
But Cox’s assertion is all too common.
There is a large discrepancy between what educated laypeople believe about cognitive science and what experts actually know.
Journalists are steeped in the lay wisdom, so they are repeatedly surprised when someone forthrightly discusses the real science of mental ability."
...What scholars of mental ability know, but have never successfully gotten the media to understand, is that a scientific consensus, based on an extensive and consistent literature, has long been reached on many of the questions that still seem controversial to journalists.
For example, virtually all psychologists believe there is a general mental ability factor (referred to colloquially as “intelligence”) that explains much of an individual’s performance on cognitive tests.
IQ tests approximately measure this general factor.
Psychologists recognize that a person’s IQ score, which is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, usually remains stable upon reaching adolescence.
And they know that IQ scores are correlated with educational attainment, income, and many other socioeconomic outcomes.
When failure carries no cost
Column One: When failure carries no cost:
"The Benghazi story keeps getting more and more outrageous. Last week we learned that some two dozen CIA personnel were on the ground during the attack. The administration has reportedly scattered these operatives throughout the US and forced them to adopt new identities. They have reportedly been prohibited from speaking to the media or congressional investigators, and subjected to monthly polygraph tests.
US personnel wounded in the attack have been hidden from investigators since the attack took place.
This behavior is scandalous, and unprecedented.
Yet, outside of the “usual suspects” in the conservative media and the Republican Party, there is no outrage. The media coverage of this shocking revelation is nearly nonexistent, and where it exists, the reportage is laconic, indifferent.
Here, too, the administration feels comfortable perpetuating its cover-up.
As in the case of Ft. Hood, why come clean if there is no price to pay for lying and covering up? "
"The Benghazi story keeps getting more and more outrageous. Last week we learned that some two dozen CIA personnel were on the ground during the attack. The administration has reportedly scattered these operatives throughout the US and forced them to adopt new identities. They have reportedly been prohibited from speaking to the media or congressional investigators, and subjected to monthly polygraph tests.
US personnel wounded in the attack have been hidden from investigators since the attack took place.
This behavior is scandalous, and unprecedented.
Yet, outside of the “usual suspects” in the conservative media and the Republican Party, there is no outrage. The media coverage of this shocking revelation is nearly nonexistent, and where it exists, the reportage is laconic, indifferent.
Here, too, the administration feels comfortable perpetuating its cover-up.
As in the case of Ft. Hood, why come clean if there is no price to pay for lying and covering up? "
This Michigan State football YouTube video is a must-watch
This Michigan State football YouTube video is a must-watch | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com:
(additional link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHfMzpyEJK8 )
Interesting lyrics for a "must-watch" video.
Paula Dean must be jealous:
(additional link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHfMzpyEJK8 )
Interesting lyrics for a "must-watch" video.
Paula Dean must be jealous:
All of the lights, all of the nights
Turn up the lights in here, baby
Extra bright, I want y'all to see this
Turn up the lights in here, baby
You know what I need
Want you to see everything
Want you to see all of the lights
[Elly Jackson]
Fast cars, shooting stars
Until it's Vegas everywhere we are
If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life
If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
Something wrong, I hold my head
MJ gone, our nigga dead
I slapped my girl, she called the feds
I did that time and spent that bread
I’m heading home, I’m almost there
I’m on my way, heading up the stairs
To my surprise, a nigga replacing me
I had to take him to that ghetto university
[Pre-Hook: Kanye West]
Cop lights, flash lights
Spot lights, strobe lights
Street lights
Fast life, drug life
Thug life, rock life
Every night
[Verse 2: Kanye West]
Restraining order, can’t see my daughter
Her mother, brother, grandmother hate me in that order
Public visitation, we met at Borders
Told her she take me back, I’ll be more supportive
I made mistakes, I bumped my head
Courts sucked me dry, I spent that bread
She need her daddy, baby please
Can’t let her grow up in that ghetto university
[Bridge: Kid Cudi]
Getting mine, baby
Got to let these niggas know
Getting right
You should go and get your own
Getting mine baby
Got to let these niggas know
Getting right
You should go and get your own
[Verse 3: Fergie]
Unemployment line, credit card declined
Did I not mention I was about to lose my mind?
And also was about to do that line
K, okay you know we going all the way this time
We going all the way this time
We going all the way this time
We going all the way this time
We going all the way this time
We going all the way this time
Why Obama doesn't dare speak about Detroit
Why Obama doesn't dare speak about Detroit | Fox News:
"You don’t hear the president talking about Detroit.
Maybe the reason Detroit is bankrupt today is because for decades it was governed, in large part, by the Obama playbook:
Soak the rich, choke small businesses, and squeeze the middle class with high taxes (in the case of Detroit that included sky high property, commercial and industrial taxes). "
"You don’t hear the president talking about Detroit.
Maybe the reason Detroit is bankrupt today is because for decades it was governed, in large part, by the Obama playbook:
Soak the rich, choke small businesses, and squeeze the middle class with high taxes (in the case of Detroit that included sky high property, commercial and industrial taxes). "
HELP WANTED: Al-Shabaab Recruiting Jihadists in Minnesota
HELP WANTED: Al-Shabaab Recruiting Jihadists in Minnesota
"The FBI believes Al-Shabaab is responsible for producing and releasing a 40-minute video that follows three Twin Cities men on the path to martyrdom.
For the past seven years, federal agents have been investigating and prosecuting Minnesota’s so-called “terror pipeline.”
With the country’s largest population of Somali-Americans, the Twin Cities has been fighting the recruitment of young men into Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda training camps overseas.
Once trained, they engage in Jihad against the ruling factions in war-torn Somalia."
"The FBI believes Al-Shabaab is responsible for producing and releasing a 40-minute video that follows three Twin Cities men on the path to martyrdom.
For the past seven years, federal agents have been investigating and prosecuting Minnesota’s so-called “terror pipeline.”
With the country’s largest population of Somali-Americans, the Twin Cities has been fighting the recruitment of young men into Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda training camps overseas.
Once trained, they engage in Jihad against the ruling factions in war-torn Somalia."
10 years after blackout, U.S. grid faces new threats
10 years after blackout, U.S. grid faces new threats | The Detroit News:
"One-sixth of the existing coal capacity is projected to close by 2020, .....The permanent closure of four nuclear reactors in California, Florida and Wisconsin was announced this year, and reactors in New York, Vermont and elsewhere may also close.
Plant shutdowns mean there’s less of a cushion in electrical capacity when power demand is high or problems arise.
Shutdowns also create pockets of transmission congestion or regions where power is scarce.
Both situations drive up power prices for customers, make the grid less stable and present planning challenges."
"One-sixth of the existing coal capacity is projected to close by 2020, .....The permanent closure of four nuclear reactors in California, Florida and Wisconsin was announced this year, and reactors in New York, Vermont and elsewhere may also close.
Plant shutdowns mean there’s less of a cushion in electrical capacity when power demand is high or problems arise.
Shutdowns also create pockets of transmission congestion or regions where power is scarce.
Both situations drive up power prices for customers, make the grid less stable and present planning challenges."
Michigan has high rate of parents refusing vaccines
Michigan has high rate of parents refusing vaccines | MLive.com:
"Less than 72 percent of young children and 63 percent of Michigan adolescents are fully immunized, according to the Michigan State Medical Society.
To attend a public or private school, kids must be vaccinated against a number of diseases and medical conditions depending on their age: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, chickenpox and meningitis."
...."We have maybe a little more liberal view of what qualifies as a waiver than other states. And so I think more and more people have taken advantage of that," said Bob Swanson, director of the state's Division of Immunizations....."
"Less than 72 percent of young children and 63 percent of Michigan adolescents are fully immunized, according to the Michigan State Medical Society.
To attend a public or private school, kids must be vaccinated against a number of diseases and medical conditions depending on their age: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, chickenpox and meningitis."
...."We have maybe a little more liberal view of what qualifies as a waiver than other states. And so I think more and more people have taken advantage of that," said Bob Swanson, director of the state's Division of Immunizations....."
Some parents may have no philosophical opposition but find it easier to file a waiver after forgetting to schedule a vaccination before the school year starts, said Jevon McFadden, an epidemiologist with the CDC who is based at the Michigan Department of Community Health.
BINGO!
North Muskegon schools finances in relatively good shape compared to others
North Muskegon schools finances in relatively good shape compared to others | MLive.com:
"North Muskegon Public Schools Superintendent Curt Babcock.
“It’s scary when around the county we look around and see fund balances declining.
We’re really not different in that respect.
The last two years we did use fund balance to balance our budget, knowing that’s a trend that cannot continue.”
"North Muskegon Public Schools Superintendent Curt Babcock.
“It’s scary when around the county we look around and see fund balances declining.
We’re really not different in that respect.
The last two years we did use fund balance to balance our budget, knowing that’s a trend that cannot continue.”
Who or what is to blame for Detroit's bankruptcy? 15 theories on the city's decline
Who or what is to blame for Detroit's bankruptcy? 15 theories on the city's decline | MLive.com:
"Conservatives
MSNBC talker Ed Schulz lumps free trade under a series of Republican policies that doomed Detroit and were part of an overall plan to privatize public services.
"Make no mistake, Detroit is exactly what the Republicans want," he (Schultz) added.
"They outsourced manufacturing jobs, attack unions, cut public services, and this is the result.
Now they can wipe the slate clean because now they can start privatizing city assets.""
"Conservatives
MSNBC talker Ed Schulz lumps free trade under a series of Republican policies that doomed Detroit and were part of an overall plan to privatize public services.
"Make no mistake, Detroit is exactly what the Republicans want," he (Schultz) added.
"They outsourced manufacturing jobs, attack unions, cut public services, and this is the result.
Now they can wipe the slate clean because now they can start privatizing city assets.""
RealClearPolicy - Detroit and the Special-Interest State
RealClearPolicy - Detroit and the Special-Interest State:
"Then, under the pressure of the war, the Cold War, the Great Society, environmentalism, the civil-rights revolution, feminism, and unionism, the principles crumbled.
Indeed, to a large degree the doctrines reversed.
The job of government became not to pass laws for the general welfare, but to identify particular worthy groups and empower them.
Benefits were bestowed on special interests and routinely fed back into the political system to maintain the power of the bestowers.
And government was regarded as the prime mover of every social and economic system from the economy to health care to agriculture to telecommunications.
"Then, under the pressure of the war, the Cold War, the Great Society, environmentalism, the civil-rights revolution, feminism, and unionism, the principles crumbled.
Indeed, to a large degree the doctrines reversed.
The job of government became not to pass laws for the general welfare, but to identify particular worthy groups and empower them.
Benefits were bestowed on special interests and routinely fed back into the political system to maintain the power of the bestowers.
And government was regarded as the prime mover of every social and economic system from the economy to health care to agriculture to telecommunications.
Decline in Violence Linked to Climate Change?
Issue #100: Decline in Violence Linked to Climate Change | Heartlander Magazine:
"In one of an avalanche of media reports on the Cal-Berkeley paper, BBC News published the headline, “Rise in violence ‘linked to climate change.’
"In one of an avalanche of media reports on the Cal-Berkeley paper, BBC News published the headline, “Rise in violence ‘linked to climate change.’
Detroit losing $1 million school check more proof of inefficiencies in city | Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit losing $1 million school check more proof of inefficiencies in city | Crain's Detroit Business
In late February, cash-strapped Detroit received a $1 million check from the local school system that wasn't deposited. The routine payment wound up in a city hall desk drawer, where it was found a month later.
This is the way Detroit did business as it slid toward bankruptcy, which it entered July 18. The move exposed $18 billion of long-term obligations in a city plagued by unreliable buses, broken street lights and long waits for police and ambulances. Underlying poor service is a government that lacks modern technology and can't perform such basic functions as bill collecting, according to Kevyn Orr, Detroit's emergency manager.
"Nobody sends million-dollar checks anymore -- they wire the money," said Orr spokesman Bill Nowling.
Except in Detroit.
"We have financial systems that are three, four, five decades in the past," Nowling said. "If we can fix those issues, then we'll be able to provide services better, faster, more efficiently and cheaper."
Detroit doesn't have a central municipal computer system, and each department bought its own machinery -- much of which never worked properly, according to Orr, 55, who took over in March. The last such acquisition, 15 years ago, was of a system based on Oracle Corp. technology that wasn't fully put to work.
Antiquated rules
The city is buying new software to improve income-tax collection, especially from suburban commuters who work in Detroit, said James Bonsall, the chief financial officer hired by Orr. The dysfunction extends beyond machinery, Nowling said.
Union rules have "bumped" workers into positions they aren't qualified for as departments make cuts, he said. The city has no training programs and doesn't evaluate employees in 2,500 job classifications.
"It has nothing to do with bad employees," Nowling said. "These employees in some instances are still following work rules that were created 40 years ago."
Detroit's operational flaws are pronounced, according to a June 14 report from Orr.
It costs the city $62 to process each paycheck, every pay period, for its 9,560 employees, compared with an average of $18 for U.S. public employers, Orr said in the report. The main reason for the high cost is that almost 150 full-time workers produce Detroit's payroll, including 51 uniformed officers.
Hand processing
The city's income-tax receipts are processed by hand, among the 70 percent of accounting entries done manually, according to Orr. He said in his report that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service described Detroit's tax-collection system as "catastrophic" in a July 2012 audit.
Detroit's antiquated accounting processes have meant some bills go uncollected for as long as six years, according to Orr, cutting funds that could buy new squad cars, emergency vehicles or computers. Victims of heart attacks in Detroit are likely to die because of slow responses to emergency calls since so few ambulances are running, Orr said in an interview.
City vehicles are old and their maintenance is poor, said Gary Brown, who left the City Council to help Orr improve municipal operations. A group of companies, including General Motors Co., have agreed to pay about $8 million to provide new vehicles for emergency medical services and police.
Brown said it's difficult to find 45 operable garbage trucks in a fleet of 180 to pick up trash five days a week.
Trash contracting
"That's unconscionable," he said, citing too few mechanics, lax work rules and a lack of spare parts. He said there are plans to hire a hauling company to pick up trash.
Bankruptcy may pay for better services by reducing Detroit's daily costs as much as 40 percent, said John Mogk, a law professor specializing in urban policy at the city's Wayne State University. Orr has proposed giving holders of $11.5 billion in municipal debt pennies on the dollar to free up money for programs, including new equipment.
"You're talking about $300 million or $400 million that would not go toward past obligations, but could be put into new investments or services for the city," Mogk said. "It opens up new opportunities for the city to try to improve living conditions in the city and try to stimulate economic growth."
Orr has proposed spending $1.25 billion over 10 years to improve services -- especially public safety -- for a city that has lost a fourth of its population since 2000 and is riddled with blight. A neglected government infrastructure is partly to blame, Nowling said.
Slow response
Police take an average of 58 minutes to respond to priority calls, compared with a national average of 11 minutes, Orr said in his June report. Besides too few officers -- the department's roster has shrunk by 40 percent since 2003 -- there's no computer system connecting precincts to let them quickly share information. Officers write tickets and reports by hand.
Police Commander Todd Bettison disputes the response times cited by Orr, saying it took an average 15 minutes for officers to get to 80 percent of the 277,800 calls received last year. The other 20 percent were mostly nonlife-threatening calls in which the response may have taken days, such as complaints about animals, Bettison said by telephone.
It isn't unusual for municipalities to use outdated technology, though Detroit is worse off than others, said Bill Brandt, chief executive officer of Development Specialists, Inc., a Chicago-based turnaround consultant. He said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks exposed communications-systems flaws that made it hard for New York police and firefighters to coordinate.
Chevy budget
Brandt said Michigan's government could've helped Detroit acquire more up-to-date technology.
"Not enough has gone into reinventing government," Brandt said. "It'll get there, but taxpayers have never enthusiastically supported a Cadillac and only want to pay for a Chevy."
The biggest challenge for the Motor City is serving a shrinking, poorer population that needs jobs, and is spread across an area larger than Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan combined, Mogk said.
Brandt said Orr's plan didn't lay out a long-term strategy for boosting jobs based in Detroit, which he said is the key to attracting new residents.
"Improvement of services will help," Brandt said. Yet it is the promise of jobs that will lead more people to move into the city, he said.
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