// Summer//
When I said I was fine to drive with the windows down, I assumed we were going through the city and not doing 80mph on the highway!
Sunset from my apartment. Detroit, Michigan.
// Restaurant Of the Year 2012: Joe Muer Seafood//
“At dusk, the dining room sparkles with the panorama of the Detroit River. Pink light from the sunset bounces off glass buildings on the Windsor side, sending the rosy glow shimmering back across the water to Detroit. The red Caesars casino sign dominates the Windsor night skyline, as commercial boats slowly ply upriver toward Belle Isle…
There’s a progression from past to present in all aspects of Joe Muer Seafood — not just in the food. The atmospherics at Muer take their cue from the past, but also blend comfortably and authentically with the modern.
In so many American cities, the pattern has been that once an icon like Joe Muer Seafood disappears it becomes part of the past, and that’s it. So it says admirable and even remarkable things about the people willing to take a risk like this, and about the city, as well, when we see a figure of Muer’s stature return. The signs are good. They point up, instead of down.
Every big city needs a superb fish house. And in Detroit, we’ve got ours back. Joe Muer Seafood is a place to make everyone proud.”
Read it all.
// GM chief Dan Akerson gives $1M to help Habitat for Humanity project on Detroit’s east side//
by Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson and his wife, Karin Akerson, will donate $1 million today to kick-start a new Habitat for Humanity initiative called Leaders to ReBuild Detroit, aimed at stabilizing the MorningSide neighborhood on the city’s east side.
An event today at the J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy will launch the $25-million effort to aid at least 500 MorningSide families by 2014. The Akersons will be there, joined by Roy Roberts, the emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools, and city and Habitat officials.
“All you have to do is drive around the city of Detroit and you can see the economic devastation,” Akerson told me in an interview this week. “The contrast between Grosse Pointe and MorningSide… is pretty dramatic. You look to the left and you see one world, and you look to the right— and in my humble opinion, it shouldn’t be that way in America, but it is.”
While large corporate foundations play a big role in addressing societal challenges , personal involvement is also a key catalyst for action, Akerson added. “To me, everything in life is personal. People need to see people stand up to it, not just institutions.”
Although the Akersons’ gift will focus on building and upgrading homes in Detroit’s MorningSide area, especially around the Clark and Robert Brown Academy elementary schools, it’s also part of statewide $225-million ReBuild Michigan Habitat for Humanity campaign in its early stages.
Read the full article here: http://www.freep.com/article/20120222/COL06/202220421?fb_ref=artsharetop&fb_source=home_oneline
First decent picture with my canon.
Guardian Building, Detroit. Detroit has one of the best collections of art deco architecture in the world, and the Guardian Building might be its best example.
(via det-riot)
Looks like Chicago, right? Nope. Detroit.
absolutely breathtaking. the fox theatre, detroit.
// Med Students Urge Congress to Find SGR Fix//
WASHINGTON — More than 200 medical students, hailing from 30 states across the U.S., descended on Capitol Hill today to participate in the AMA’s student lobbying day. Their main message was a familiar one: Find a permanent fix for the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.
One group of medical students from Michigan met with the staff of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to discuss the 28% cut in Medicare reimbursement due to take effect on March 1.
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In addition to reimbursement issues, the medical students advocated for an increase in the number of Medicare-supported residency spots. One of those advocates was Brian Holowecky, a fourth-year medical student at Michigan State University in East Lansing, who is applying for emergency medicine residency programs. He said that the programs will receive thousands of applications for a handful of available residency openings.
“It is a very big problem,” he said, adding that medical students generally apply for at least 30 residency positions — sometimes as many as 100 — because they know they face immense competition given the low number of graduate medical education (GME) spots available.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/MedicalEducation/31165
most cities get by on their good looks. detroit has to work for a living.
and then I went to med school
