Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks Bloomberg By Chris Christoff Detroit Residents Stay In at Night as Lights Go Out Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge t… more »

By ALISTAIR MACDONALD And PAUL VIEIRA WINDSOR, Ontario—Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: To stop a highly annoying noise. The so-called Windsor hu… more »

Chicago Tribune News DETROIT— The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can't return because the building's unsanitary and unsafe. Texana Hollis was evicted Sep… more »

Yahoo Finance By Peter Gorenstein | Daily Ticker  The Motor City's engine is dying. Detroit's population shrank by more than 25% in the last decade, according to Census statistics reported in the New York Times. The city's population fell to 713,777… more »

    Class sizes also would swell under proposal filed with the state Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by… more »