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Thursday, April 12, 2012 Cuts, Cuts, Cuts Under New Budget Detroit Deputy Mayor Kirk Lewis presented a draft budget to City Council Thursday morning, a week after the city entered into a consent agreement to allow greater state oversight of its finances. Lewis said Detroit will have a $268 million deficit at the end of the fiscal year in June. The new budget looks to radically cut and restructure city government to balance the budget going forward and eliminate that deficit. "Nobody wants these cuts, especially not the citizens who have already suffered," Lewis said. But these cuts are essential to ensure the city's long-term financial stability." Detroit On Path To Have Michigan's Biggest Bike Lane Network Not The Red Wings' Best Outing Woodward Ave. Becomes Sunflower Street Bailout Money Fails To Reach Neediest Homeowners Painting In A Haunted Spice Factory: Hernan Bas Talks Art, Detroit BLOG POSTS Charles A. Birnbaum: Killing Modernism with Fuzzy Math, Bad Information and False Choices Modernism, despite the popularity of Mad Men and shelter magazines like Dwell, is under assault. Iconic works of architecture and landscape architecture from have a particularly high mortality rate. Gretchen Dykstra: When Women Invaded the Caddyshack "But now when a player turns to see his clubs taken... by some wee bit lassie, he no longer shakes his head dubiously." Mary Anne Hitt: Michigan State Calls for Clean Energy on Campus MSU Beyond Coal has collected over 10,000 petition signatures to retire the dirty, aging plant over the course of their 2.5 year campaign. Maureen Costello: Risky Lesson: Teacher Fired for Bringing Trayvon Martin Into Class Last month Brooke Harris' eighth-grade class asked her about the "kid who was killed over some skittles." She seized the opportunity to bring her students' lived experiences into the classroom. And that's when things got weird. Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm: Mitt Romney Is a Hollow Man What does this man stand for? Why does he even want to be president? Where is his true vision, his core? Does he even have one?

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