The headline juxtaposition boggles the mind. You have, on one day, \u201cDetroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in History.\u201d Then on the next, you have \u201cDetroit Plans to Pay For New Red Wings Hockey Arena Despite Bankruptcy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, the very week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder granted a state-appointed emergency manager\u2019s request to declare the Motor City bankrupt, the Tea Party governor gave a big thumbs-up to a plan for a new $650 million Detroit Red Wings hockey arena. Almost half of that $650 million will be paid with public funds. The headline juxtaposition boggles the mind. You have, on one day, \u201cDetroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in History.\u201d Then on the next, you have \u201cDetroit Plans to Pay For New Red Wings Hockey Arena Despite Bankruptcy.\u201d Yes, the very week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder granted a state-appointed emergency manager\u2019s request to declare the Motor City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36873,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872\/revisions\/36873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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