You can’t believe the size of this place. This is the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. It’s huge…as far as the eye can see …you can see cars and displays and big screen projection screens. And people. Tons of people. Each area of the center is clearly marked…by 20 foot signs that read: FORD, DODGE, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Detroit Auto Show 2009: The Mother of All Car Shows!
January 18, 2009
The Detroit Auto Show: The Buck Stops Here
January 17, 2009
Welcome to Detroit. The outskirts, anyway. I’m in Romulus, Michigan. About 20 miles from downtown Detroit. The international airport is here and so are many people who will visit to the North American International Auto Show. Better known as the Mother of All Car Shows. Even out this far the economy gets a boost from [...]
Deep Freeze!
January 15, 2009
The icy lock has gripped much of the country. It’s bad here. It’s worse in other parts. We’re talking staggering below zero readings. So cold that volunteers are walking the streets around the favorite homeless hangouts trying to encourage people to come in from the cold and into shelters now open. That could be lifesaving.
Meanwhile, [...]
Roland Will Roll Again!
January 7, 2009
Roland Burris will try again today. Mr. Burris is the man embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed to fill Barack Obama’s vacant Sentate seat. Yesterday Mr. Burris went to Capitol Hill to be seated and was turned away.
This whole thing, in a way, makes me snicker a little. Here’s Blagojevich being told “no” don’t appoint anyone, please, while this investigation [...]
