Detroit
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.
