MOTOWN BEATS THE BLUES

Detroit I was in Motown speaking at a City Council meeting the day Detroit auto execs jetted into Washington to ask for the big bailout that could forestall certain bankruptcy. Though they were shown the door in Washington, the mood at Detroit City Council was anything but deathwatch. The city that’s become an icon for [...]

Life Is a Picnic

The scene was just as I remembered from many decades ago, when my grade 5 teacher asked us to name one of the seven wonders of the world, and I stuck up my hand and blurted out “the Scarboro bluffs.” My wife Lori and good friend Harriet joined me for a trip down memory lane [...]