An always popular topic on Rust Wire is the fate of Detroit’s long vacant Michigan Central Station, which the city council has voted to demolish.

Check out this amazing and beautiful video from the Detroit Free Press. You can also go on a virtual tour of the station by following this link.
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An always popular topic on Rust Wire is the fate of Detroit’s long vacant Michigan Central Station, which the city council has voted to demolish.

Check out this amazing and beautiful video from the Detroit Free Press. You can also go on a virtual tour of the station by following this link.
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By now you have heard: The White House is forcing Chrysler into Chapter 11. Hold onto your chairs, kids, it’s gonna be a wild ride.
Workers will continue to be paid and provided with benefits, Obama administration officials said. The White House is going to loan the embattled maker of the Town & Country another $7.5 billion.
The UAW is urging bankruptcy court to retain the union contracts, The Detroit news reports. The UAW actually stands to gain from all of this forced reorganization, oddly enough. In the restructuring plans proposed this …

This “promotional” Cleveland YouTube video is good for a few laughs. I think my favorite line is “Cleveland leads the nation in drifters.”
Thanks to Rust Wire reader Jeff Vines of www.stl-style.com for sending this to us!
-KG
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This “promotional” Cleveland YouTube video is good for a few laughs. I think my favorite line is “Cleveland leads the nation in drifters.”
Thanks to Rust Wire reader Jeff Vines of www.stl-style.com for sending this to us!
-KG
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Today, Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs kicked off its year-long series on the foreclosure crisis in Cleveland: “Building our Future Beyond Foreclosure: Setting the Stage, Beating the Odds.”
The forum brought together civic and business leaders with more than 100 audience members to brainstorm ways to ensure Cleveland will emerge from the Foreclosure Crisis stronger.
This crisis “certainly presents a challenge, but it also provides an opportunity,” said Kathy Hexter, a CSU faculty member and organizer of the event. “What do we want the census to say about us …

Today, Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs kicked off its year-long series on the foreclosure crisis in Cleveland: “Building our Future Beyond Foreclosure: Setting the Stage, Beating the Odds.”
The forum brought together civic and business leaders with more than 100 audience members to brainstorm ways to ensure Cleveland will emerge from the Foreclosure Crisis stronger.
This crisis “certainly presents a challenge, but it also provides an opportunity,” said Kathy Hexter, a CSU faculty member and organizer of the event. “What do we want the census to say about us …

When I was a little girl my mom used to sing me an old cheer called “We’re Strong for Toledo.” My grandma used to sing me John Denver’s “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio.” The songs portrayed two very different cities: one a proud metropolis, the other a laughing stock.
I thought it might be interesting to look at the most famous songs devoted to Rust Belt as a way to examine how these cities are portrayed in pop culture, and also how that image has changed over the years.
For example, the …

Braddock, Pa. and its unconventional mayor, John Fetterman, have gotten quite a bit of national press in recent months, from Monthly Review, to The New York Times, to the Colbert Report.
Some in the Pittsburgh region have known for awhile about Mayor Fetterman and various projects to help revitalize Braddock, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley. As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, there’s the community oven, public art, sustainable agriculture…I could go on.
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Braddock, Pa. and its unconventional mayor, John Fetterman, have gotten quite a bit of national press in recent months, from Monthly Review, to The New York Times, to the Colbert Report.
Some in the Pittsburgh region have known for awhile about Mayor Fetterman and various projects to help revitalize Braddock, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley. As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, there’s the community oven, public art, sustainable agriculture…I could go on.
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