Posted 09/05/08
Professor John Mogk was quoted by Tim Jones on Chicagotribune.com in an article titled “Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigns” on Sept. 5, 2008.
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Posted 06/04/08
Professor John Mogk wrote a letter to the editor of Crain’s Business Detroit. The letter, Give thanks for Poletown, was published on June 2, 2008 and brings attention to a recently published Crain’s article that “perpetuates the misguided notion that building the Poletown plant in the early 1980s was bad for Detroit and Hamtramck.”
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Posted 05/21/08
Professor John Mogk wrote an article featured in Crain’s Detroit Business titled “Let universities help our high schools” on May 19, 2008.
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Posted 05/09/08
Professor John Mogk was quoted by Stephen Henderson in the Detroit Free Press in an article titled “Smaller, Better; To Survive, Improve, City Must Find Ways To Condense Population” on April 20, 2008.
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Posted 05/09/08
Professor John Mogk was quoted by Stephen Henderson in the Detroit Free Press in an article titled “OPINION: Smaller, better” on April 20, 2008.
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Posted 04/18/08
Professor John Mogk wrote an op-ed piece discussing “cash flow” housing investors and the possible adverse effect they may have on Detroit’s mortgage foreclosure crisis. It appeared in the Detroit Free Press on April 14, 2008.
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Posted 02/06/08
Professor John Mogk wrote a letter to the editor of the Michigan Bar Journal titled “Take a Closer Look at ‘Recent Changes in Eminent Domain Law’” that was published in the January 2008 edition of the Journal.
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Posted 02/04/08
Professor John Mogk was quoted by Christine MacDonald in the Detroit News in an article titled “City airport area becomes wasteland; Failed effort to buy out property owners leaves neighborhood in limbo” on Dec. 10, 2007.
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Posted 02/04/08
Professor John Mogk was quoted by Tim Jones in the Chicago Tribune in an article titled “Housing crisis hits Midwest hard; Foreclosures on the rise amid lagging economy in region” on Nov. 4, 2007.
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Posted 01/15/08
Professor John Mogk wrote an article featured in the Detroit Free Press titled “Bush’s plan nearly useless against foreclosure” on Dec. 31, 2007.
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Posted 08/21/07
Professor John Mogk wrote an article, “Aftermath eclipses Detroit's riots,” that was featured in the July 25, 2007 edition of The Detroit News (detnews.com).
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Posted 08/21/07
Professor John Mogk wrote an article, “City must take action to prevent blight,” that was featured in the Aug. 12, 2007 edition of the Detroit Free Press (freep.com).
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Posted 07/26/07
In an op-ed piece, Professor John Mogk contends that it wasn’t the 1967 riot that caused the destruction of Detroit neighborhoods so much as what occurred thereafter. He cites a number of factors, including a lengthy teachers strike in 1973, ill-conceived federal neighborhood rebuilding policies that led to abuses, and neighborhood opposition to building auto plants that would help stimulate the city’s economy, among others.
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