Michigan roads stink. 
While this is not breaking news, the MiWeek team is talking about some of the new suggested measures to improve Michigan’s road ways.
The MiWeek team also discusses the future of Right to Work, Dan Gilbert’s tweet about Belle Isle and the City of Detroit, and the team plays the fill in the blank Super Bowl game.
Topics of Discussion:
- The plan to fix Michigan Roads
- The future of Right to Work
- Dan Gilbert on Belle Isle & the City of Detroit
- Fill in the blank: Super Bowl
City Council Members,
Your latest failure to act has surprised even me. Your capacity for
destruction through deliberation and indecision is breathtaking. In
my humble, yet accurate, opinion all council members aside from James
Tate, Saunteel Jenkins and Gary Brown should be compelled to resign
due to their great disservice to this city. You had the opportunity to
give one of Detroit’s treasures, which I live just across Jefferson
from, a chance at rebirth. What is it that
drives this intransigence? If you are afraid to lead you should step
down from your position immediately, for that is one of the terms of
our social contract – you lead this city to becoming better,
disregarding dissention when dissention is perilous and conducive only
to ruin and the seemingly indefatigable status-quo! Detroit can no
longer sit by and watch your lack of leadership amount to infirmity of
this once living and breathing metropolis. Join the rescucitation, or
step aside and let someone with professional training (the state) step
in. The money was there! The will was there! If only your heads were
there!
Dan Gilbert was right, this was a no brainer. The city’s poor
could not afford to come to Belle Isle? I bought a state park pass,
which gives me access to ALL state parks, last week for $11. A deal
could have been worked out for subsidized pricing for city citizens.
The park, the city NEEDS money! Your deplorable inaction has roused in
me a disgust I know not how to describe. It is not one action alone,
but an attitude, a fear, and general inability to do good, Right
things that scares me. I moved here because I had faith and hope in
this city. You have tainted that hope and shaken my faith. To you I
wish only that you know what you have done whenever you look around
you. The consequences and repercussions of your inaction will be felt
far and wide, but the saddest part is that what has been lost is
unrealized splendor, so you may never even notice it and think
yourselves without guilt. Be assured the guilt of failing this city is
upon you.
-Derek Stoeckle