Detroit's Abandoned Public Schools

Depressing photos from a city in serious decline.

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Motor City Stuck in a Ditch

A couple nuggets from a Chicago Tribune article on the deplorable state of Detroit or as the article puts it a "a northern New Orleans without the French Quarter."

The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.

Not $75,000. Remove a zero—it's seven thousand five hundred dollars, substantially less than the lowest-price car on the new-car market.

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On a positive note, Detroit's homicide rate dropped 14 percent last year. That prompted mayoral candidate Stanley Christmas to tell the Detroit News recently, "I don't mean to be sarcastic, but there just isn't anyone left to kill."

Despite all this, 15 people are running to be mayor.

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