thanks for the sanity check. I’m starting to take all negative news on FR about Detroit here with multiple grains of salt.
Here’s an excellent article on the “odd” power distribution situation you mentioned:
http://www.detroitmi.gov/News/tabid/3196/mid/4561/articleId/292/ctl/ReadDefault/Default.aspx
Agreed, conservatives should be touting the amazing GOP successes in Detroit over the past few years but some folks just can’t let go of a good whipping boy.
If I had a dollar for every time a FReeper predicted rioting at any second in Detroit over my decade here, I’d have a sizable chunk of change. Even their “Ferguson” protest only drew about 3 dozen people.
Unfortunately FOX news is happily hyping the “MASSIVE POWER OUTAGE”!!!!!! story despite it being completely false.
The Detroit Public Lighting Department only has approximately 115 customers at 1,400 sites and all of them are businesses or public buildings.