Showing posts with label commonwealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commonwealth. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2013

Belle Isle is a park, not a commonwealth

view from Belle Isle beach, photo by Carolyn Lusch


Crain's Detroit Business published an opinion piece by Keith Crain encouraging the city of Detroit to consider all ideas, however ridiculous, regarding Belle Isle - including those that involve creating an exclusive libertarian utopia commonwealth.
 
He could not be more wrong. Everyone in metro Detroit, including business leaders and politicians, should summarily reject this idea. They should do this to show Detroiters that they understand the difference between apocalyptic, frightening pitches and real, reasonable proposals for change.