Quote of the Day

"The city feels empty physically, empty of people, empty of ambition, drive. It feels empty."—Detroit resident Samantha Howell, in a heartbreaking article about the city's wrenching and precipitous decline, which serves as "dramatic testimony to the crumbling industrial base of the Midwest."

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