Monday, November 19, 2007
Michigan Tops
All right. Michigan hits another top ten list, in fact, we've made the top three list -- of most dangerous cities. Seems Detroit is number one and Flint, just 30 miles south of where I'm typing this, is number three. You can tell the state is really concerned too. The number one and two headlines for Sunday's online Detroit paper was about a football couch retiring.
The state ranks among the top in unemployment, foreclosures, dropping house prices, jobs leaving the state and now crime, and the paper is concerned about some guy retiring from coaching football. And we all know how much football contributes to Michigan's quality of life.
Now, I'll admit to enjoying a good game of football, but how about taking some of the time, effort and money that people spend on football and try to fix this trainwreck of a state. And not just the state, since the cities aren't going to do much good in a state that is getting so bad. Our grand old town celebrated the fact that using almost 1000 volunteers and extra state and local law enforcement and fire fighters we only had 9 arsons on Halloween.
Think about that. It took almost 1 out of every 50 people in this city to limit ourselves to only 9 arsons. One of which was just about six houses away from mine. This summer there's already been at least four house set afire on my street. Two of those have been razed, and the other two sit abandoned with broken windows and doors - and I'm in the good section of town.
Michigan - what happened to you?
Labels: crime, gripes, michigan
