{"id":5195,"date":"2012-06-08T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2012-08-28T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T23:30:42","slug":"all-we-want-is-detroit-to-provide-police-and-fire-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"All we want is [the city of ] Detroit to provide Police and Fire services"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120608\/BUSINESS06\/206080400\/Compuware-s-Karmanos-says-businesses-want-Detroit-to-provide-police-fire-services<\/a><\/p>\n

This is so “Detroit”ish.<\/p>\n

The speaker is a white businessman who grew up in Detroit and for whatever reason decided to move his software business into the city. \u00a0\u00a0 His “All we care about is Police and Fire” protection is extremely self-centered and short sighted.<\/p>\n

A viable big city is much more than Fire and Police (which are not unimportant)<\/p>\n

Big cities also typically are involved (sometimes indirectly) in<\/p>\n

– running the water and sewer systems
\n– enforcing building codes and zoning
\n– running courts
\n– operating parks and other recreation faciilties
\n– encouraging economic development
\n– running public transportation
\n– operating or regulating downtown parking facilities
\n– traffic planning and maintenance of traffic signals and street lights
\n– running public schools
\n– operating public libraries
\n–\u00a0 licensing pets and operating stray pet shelters
\n– running public health centers including food inspections
\n– collecting and disposing of garbage<\/p>\n

It’s not enough that the city keep you from getting robbed in your parking lot.\u00a0\u00a0 Living in a city – and especially RAISING A FAMILY in the city takes so much more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Business can’t just “skim the cream” of operating in a city and close their eyes to the rest of what a viable city relies on.\u00a0\u00a0 A town of 10,000 on the plains of Kansas may not need some of the above, but Detroit is (or was) a large city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120608\/BUSINESS06\/206080400\/Compuware-s-Karmanos-says-businesses-want-Detroit-to-provide-police-fire-services This is so “Detroit”ish. The speaker is a white businessman who grew up in Detroit and for whatever reason decided to move his software business into the city. \u00a0\u00a0 His “All we care about is Police and Fire” protection … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead-people","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}