Just thought I’d share a couple of reads with you all that I found interesting in the Sunday morning papers.

The Detroit Free Press’ Georgea Kovanis wrote a great profile on a young Detroiter (this kid is my age) who is fighting the odds.  I’m a sucker for stories like this, not to mention it’s also very well written and emotionally intriguing.

“It is a story about growing up in Detroit. It’s about moving away from home. It’s about world-weary desperation and youthful exuberance. This is a story about trying to escape the past because you want more for yourself than the adults who raised you.”

Read the full article here.

Nolan Finley of the Detroit News put out a provoking column discussing the three I’s that are to be blamed on Detroit’s decline: ignorance, illegitimacy and isolation.

“Detroit used to make cars. Now it makes poor people. The city pumps out poverty on a three-shift, seven-day cycle.”

“Ignorance is by far the main ingredient. Citizens came to Mayor Bing’s town halls on right-sizing last week shouting for jobs. Let’s get real.”

Read the full article here.