Detroit Red Wings - New York Islanders

What is going on here?

4-0 after 2?

Come on Wings!!

We can't keep staking teams the lead and expect to come back each time.

Update: 8:54pm Wings get one back.

Car Makers Seek Younger, More Exciting Image In Detroit

Wall Street Journal

"Car companies often use big auto trade shows as stages for asserting their images as purveyors of glitzy luxury cars, sensible sedans, rugged SUVs or muscle cars with high-horsepower engines.

But when the North American International Auto Show opens in Detroit tomorrow, many companies will be unveiling new concepts and production models that are departures from the vehicles they are best-known for turning out."

More HERE.

Detroit seeks salvation during Big 3's victory dance

Reuters

"Detroit, we are with you," Perkins said, leading a group of automotive business leaders in a lunchtime swig of Brut champagne at the city's Cobo Center.

But not everyone is in the mood to celebrate.

While car companies thrive, Detroit continues to bleed. Saddled with a crippling debt load, mounting labor costs and onerous union contracts, the city that paved the auto industry's success is in need of a bailout of its own."

Read more.

Petition drive seeks to legalize pot in Michigan

Detroit News

"It may be a lot of smoke in the air, but an effort is in the works to try to make it legal for Michigan residents over age 21 to smoke marijuana.

A petition drive is expected to launch this week aimed at asking voters in November amend the state constitution and legalize marijuana.

If enough signatures are collected and the measure were to pass, Michigan would become one of the first states in the nation to abolish criminal penalties for anyone using, growing, selling and delivering what has been a federally controlled substance for decades."

Read more at the Detroit News

Bad Day For Detroit Teams

Well...we were 0 for 3 yesterday..

Pistons loose to the New York Knicks.. this could be a very long shortened season. Maybe a lockout would be have better?

and the Lions fell to the Saints..but hope for a brighter future still burns. Great season.

And the Red Wings stage a comeback but the Leafs prevail.. hope the Wings can build a road streak soon.

Still laughing, Detroit radio legend Dick Purtan signs off

Detroit News

After 45 years, Dick Purtan left Detroit's airwaves exactly as he started, with "a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down the pants," paraphrasing the famous line from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

At 8:57 a.m. Friday, with wife Gail looking on and family members dabbing their eyes amid a crowd of friends, present and former sidekicks, and well-wishers, Purtan signaled for his favorite song to be played, Frank Sinatra's "Softly As I Leave You."

"Turn the volume up," said his daughter and sidekick Jackie, while tears flowed at the sentimental lyrics.

DMC sale may mean more competition

Crain's Detroit Business

Detroit Medical Center's intent to sell its eight-hospital system to for-profit Vanguard Health Systems could stimulate competition between hospitals in Southeast Michigan for paying patients and intensify efforts by hospitals to acquire physician organizations, said several experts.

“Michigan is one of the last places to get a significant influx in investor-owned hospitals, assuming this deal goes through,” said Allan Baumgarten, a Minneapolis-based health care consultant who is familiar with the Michigan market.

Lions make it official with Vanden Bosch, Burleson

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Detroit Lions made it official on Saturday and announced the free-agent signings of defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch and wide receiver Nate Burleson.

Terms of the deals weren't immediately disclosed, but the Detroit Free Press reported on Friday that Vanden Bosch agreed to a four-year deal and Burleson a five-year pact.

Vanden Bosch notched 44 tackles and three sacks for Tennessee last season. He played five years with the Titans after spending his first four NFL seasons with Arizona, missing the entire 2003 campaign with a torn ACL.

Michigan to share in $1.5B for homeowners

Detroit Free Press

Michigan is among five states getting money under a $1.5-billion program announced Friday to help struggling homeowners, but it's unclear how many people will be helped or how the program would work.

Funds will be targeted to states that have seen the worst drop in home values -- Michigan, Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada.

It's unknown how much each state will get.

Among the five, Michigan's experience has been the least severe: Online real estate Web site Zillow says values are off from their 2005 peak by about 28%; financial services information management firm Fiserv puts Michigan's drop in home values at 35%.