What Should Metro Detroit know about Dearborn?
Public radio station WDET is inviting Dearborn residents to take part in a “community conversation” in Dearborn 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, March 21 at the Arab American National Museum.
The radio station is asking: What should metro Detroit know about Dearborn?
This community conversation will not be recorded.
Interested in participating? Visit HERE.
March 16th, 2012 at 8:51 am
They should know how our town is loaded with restuarants, and bars up and down Michigan Ave., and how our Mayor raises revenue not by attracting new types of businesses, but rather with having the officers issuing tickets on the road, and looking for Goodwill stores.
March 16th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
hey andy the detroit people should feel right at home here with the ex-dpd chief mccheese mayor hired, who wants our once polished Dearborn PD to be like it is in the big D, have an uncleaned dirty building, hire his friends relatives who couldn’t get hired in the big D, & drive chrysler cars. There used to be a comparison not now, they are starting to look & operate the same.
March 17th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Dearborn is not Detroit. It is the people who live here, not the mayor, who makes the city. If I deserve a ticket, I should get one, and I have. There are some problems with this city, just like there are with others. I guess bars and restaurants are better than NOTHING. Paid parking sure had its toll on businesses. Sorry you feel this way, but I like my neighborhood. Vote for a new mayor if you don’t like him. BE MORE POSITIVE
March 17th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Fatburger is coming soon!
March 19th, 2012 at 7:41 am
We are diverse. We live side by side with different cultures and different religions. We’re hurting, financially, just like every other city.
March 19th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
We are the Shish Kafta capital of Michigan, followed closely by Shish Tawook.
March 20th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Perhaps we could install a landfill, snow makers and a chairlift and call it “Shish Mountain”!
March 20th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Sometimes I wonder if half the commenters here aren’t from the Allen Park Chamber of Commerce… just kidding. I hope.
WDET got very strong response to the question “What’s your favorite place in Dearborn?”
http://wdetfm.org/shows/question-of-the-day/episode/qofd032012/
Even if 90% of the responses are “The Henry Ford!!!”, that’s more positive than the supposed residents who post here.
March 21st, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Lmao, I think the sign finally weatherd and rotted away.
March 21st, 2012 at 10:29 pm
The listening session was good, though we only had about ten people from Dearborn (and one was a WDET employee). Previous events have drawn 30-50. I and two couples were from the Ford Homes. It seemed like the majority of the rest were from local press (Patch, Arab-American News, Times & Herald). The owner of Green Brain was there too. The plus side was that Craig Fahle led the discussion throughout and everybody got time to discuss what they were interested in.
The rough outlines were that everybody was very happy here and deeply concerned about how we are perceived by the rest of Metro Detroit and the world at large. I don’t think anything in the conversation would have been news to people in this group, but I think the reporters were surprised by a number of things, so hopefully it was worthwhile. Despite the low turnout, I’m glad that none of the local comment-section trolls like the guys above showed up. (Cowards all.) Nobody representing the “Come back Mayor Hubbard” position was in attendance.
March 26th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
That it is rapidly becoming your twin city. Run down, high crime, pot holes, trash problem (just drive through East Dearborn), abandoned homes, no jobs, crooked council and city government, and the list goes on and on.