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Mclite
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Post Number: 25
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ local/6420AP_Travel_Trip_Detro it_Super_Bowl.html
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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Probably the best piece I have seen written on the D in several years...

From an outside source as well, that really says alot...
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Sharmaal
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Man! Sounds like the cut and pasted whatever we sent them! I'll take it!
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Douglasm
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Missed that in this morning's PI. I was too busy concentrating on the front page. GO SEAHAWKS!
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Mbr
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Not all good news from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Art Thiel Column:

"Only the tiniest fraction of locals will witness the Seahawks' next game in person, and because this year's game is held in Detroit -- Baghdad, you may have read, was booked -- they will be better served to watch it on TV."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ football/256683_thiel23.html
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Detroit_stylin
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Post Number: 2329
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

<<Hope Seattle gets the smack down on them worse than it already will for that article....
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Douglasm
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'll grant you, Art did not do himself proud with that line, but the rest of the column pretty much reflected how we feel (and have felt) out here on the NorthLeft part of the country when it comes to our Seahawks.....
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Restoretheroar
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Post Number: 651
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.columbusdispatch.co m/travel/travel.php?story=disp atch/2006/01/22/20060122-F1-01 .html

an article from the Columbus Dispatch- not bad either.
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L_b_patterson
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Post Number: 278
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

they should probably tell out of towners just exactly where dieppe gardens is. I mean for starters, a county would have helped
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L_b_patterson
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Post Number: 279
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

re the dispatch article & bums at CMP:

I find this a little hard to believe considering how usually vociferious the security is around the park when it comes to bums.....
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Ray1936
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Post Number: 218
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Having been to Seattle three times in the last 18 months, got to admit it is one beautiful town. Did all the usual tourist stuff, including lunch atop the space needle; the ferry boat ride across the sound; and watching them toss the fish in Pike Place Market. I love Seattle!

But, man, The Bus is from my old High School! Who to pull for? Who to cheer on? Who????Decisions........ :-)
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Motorcitymayor2026
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Post Number: 407
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The Dispatch article is GREAT.

Except the caption which calls Comerica Park Conseco Arena... lol woops...
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Matt_the_deuce
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Post Number: 450
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I just sent Art an e-mail:

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Art,

Referring to Baghdad when describing Detroit just shows your ignorance, not to mention a high level of insensitivity to the people dying over there. I've attached a crime study press release from last year showing that Detroit's Downtown crime rate is below the national average by 26%. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. By the way, that needle thing you guys got is really neato.

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I hope he likes it.
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Erikd
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Post Number: 494
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"By the way, that needle thing you guys got is really neato."

LOL!
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Eric
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Post Number: 305
Registered: 11-2004
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Both articles are very nice positive coverage of Detroit is one thing I never get tired of reading.
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Motorcitymayor2026
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Hehe,

I sent Mr. Art an e-mail as well....

mines better :-)
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Tomoh
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Post Number: 61
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.40.205.183
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I thought the article sounded familiar and it was -- it's just an AP article that the Seattle Post picked up. Other papers who picked up the article are the Sacremento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/content/ travel/24hour_travel/story/309 8510p-11801418c.html
and some Oregon news organization
http://www.kgw.com/sharedconte nt/APStories/stories/D8FAI2B01 .html
Hopefully even more are picking it up.

So the writer probably wasn't from the Space Needle...

Here's another positive, but short, article from Grand Rapids: http://www.woodtv.com/Global/s tory.asp?S=4391957&nav=0Rce
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Tomoh
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Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ray1936, I gotta agree, Seattle is a pretty place, more newer and shiny than Detroit City, arguably less gritty and historic. Different in many ways but also similar in many ways (population density, number of skyscrapers, music centers, above ground train systems only useful for getting from one tourist destination to another...). You think Eastern Market will ever be the kind of tourist destination that Pike Place is? That's kinda what I'm hoping.

And yet another article from Seattle, not quite malicious but not nearly as glowingly positive:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c om/html/travel/2002752244_detr oit21web.html
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Restoretheroar
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Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10 982457/

let the cliche articles begin
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Realitycheck
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Post Number: 231
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Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Michelle Kaufman at The Miami Herald also does right today under the headline Despite weather, Super Bowl a Hot Spot:

quote:

Detroiters are well aware the national media will make fun of their gray, cold city, even though the Motor City is the only place on earth that can boast Motown and Greektown, Eminem and Kid Rock.

If you think there will be nothing for Super Bowl guests to do in the days leading up to the game, think again. The city is hosting a 14-block Motown Winter Blast, which is being billed as ''The Hottest Place to Be!'' There will be concerts (in heated tents), an ice rink, ice sculpture garden, dog sled races, snowshoeing and a multilane 200-foot snow slide.



http://www.miami.com/mld/miami herald/sports/13696344.htm
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Detroit_stylin
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Post Number: 2330
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Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 4:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

From the last line of the Columbus Dispatch:


quote:

If only American automobiles offered that kind of value and excitement.




Too bad our non Detroit residents thing like that...
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Realitycheck
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:15 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The "look at Detroit now" ripples also flow from another D, where readers Tuesday saw a piece that's factually accurate . . .
. . . but that makes a familiar visit to cliché-ville.

Sputtering Detroit is ready to bask in Super Bowl glow
City to set aside its troubles -- for a weekend, anyway
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dw s/bus/stories/DN-detroit_24bus .ART.North.Edition2.e37af69.ht ml
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Mj64
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm not usually a big fan of the Freep's Mike Rosenberg, but he has a good article on the D on Foxsports.com:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/s tory/5268730

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