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Detroit is something of the poster child for a failed city, but Larry Gabriel, the former editor of Detroit’s
Metro Times and
UAW Solidarity magazine sees a city that has elements of a potential rebirth through “growing industries, strong communities, and policy changes laying the foundation's for the city's recovery.” Gabriel sees press coverage of Detroit as “reinforc[ing] a tired old story…[that misses] plenty of positive major economic stories…starting with the federally bailed-out General Motors and Chrysler auto companies emerging from bankruptcy with improved sales and record profits, and continuing with the likes of the booming Midtown as a flagship community of the new Detroit.”
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