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Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain

By Shannon Jones, March 20, 2010

The Detroit Medical Center, the largest hospital system in Michigan and the state’s largest provider of health care to the uninsured, will be sold to for-profit Vanguard Health Systems for $417 mill...

Detroit media, politicians back corporate plan to privatize education

By Walter Gilberti, March 19, 2010

Detroit Public School Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb is working closely with a coalition of wealthy philanthropic organizations and charter school advocates to massively reorganize the school...

Detroit firefighters discuss impact of utility shut-offs and budget cuts

By Jerry White, March 17, 2010

At a dinner for Sylvia Young—who lost three children in a March 2 house fire hours after DTE cut power and gas to her Detroit home—firefighters spoke with the WSWS about the deadly consequences of...

Detroit to close 45 more schools

By Andre Damon, March 17, 2010

Robert Bobb, the emergency financial director hired by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to oversee shrinking the Detroit public school system, announced his plan to close 45 more public schools on ...

Funeral held for Detroit children killed in Bangor Street fire

By Jerry White, March 15, 2010

Hundreds of people on Saturday attended a funeral in Detroit for three small children who were killed in a March 2 house fire, which occurred hours after DTE Energy cut off gas and electricity to the ...

“The deaths here at Dexter Avenue should never have happened”

Press conference held by Detroit Citizens Inquiry

By Tom Eley, March 12, 2010

In the wake of a rash of deadly house fires in Detroit, the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire held a press conference on Thursday afternoon calling for public participation in a fact-findin...

Elderly woman dies in Detroit house fire

DTE cut gas, electricity in 2006

By a WSWS reporting team, March 11, 2010

An elderly woman died in a Detroit house fire on Tuesday evening. While the cause of the fire is still under investigation, the woman had lived without gas and electricity since 2006.

Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry to hold press conference Thursday in Detroit

By Andrea Peters, March 11, 2010

The Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire is holding a press conference on Thursday, as opposition to utility shutoffs and house fires grows throughout the Detroit-area.

A photographic exposé of the social crisis in Detroit

March 10, 2010

A collection of photographs taken in the Detroit neighborhoods where lethal house fires recently took place.

As death toll from fatal house fires increases

Mayor plans to relocate poor residents to “downsize” Detroit

By Jerry White, March 9, 2010

A series of fatal house fires have occurred in Detroit as the mayor of the city prepares to force residents out of poor neighborhoods and bulldoze their homes in order to eliminate public services to ...

Authorities, media launch witch-hunt against Sylvia Young

Who are the real criminals behind the Detroit house fires?

By Tom Eley, March 8, 2010

Detroit area media and city and state authorities have launched a witch-hunt against Sylvia Young, the mother of three young children who died in a March 2 house fire on Bangor Street in Detroit.

Video: Neighbors of Detroit fire victims oppose utility shutoffs

March 6, 2010

WSWS reporters interviewed neighbors of the victims of the fire on March 2, two days after the tragedy.