TAKEPLACE: DETROIT: OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

DETROIT: OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS

If he had wanted to, Mayor Dave Bing could have looked out his 11th-story window at the Detroit River and the final vestiges of the boomtown he arrived in 44 years ago.

But his eyes were focused on the grim details of the city's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Page 25: The annual budget is in the hole by $155 million. Page 28: Long-term debt has climbed to $5.7 billion. Bing tapped the 237-page document with his index finger, number after daunting number. TheWP

If you have any inspired ideas to help bolster conditions in Detroit feel free to post them below.

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