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Executive Editor @freep, over autos, biz, education, investigations. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Tweets on news, sports and the occasional freak show.

Detroit Rock City. Get up!
Joined June 2009
Eminem played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra tonight to close out the hometown stars concert to reopen Michigan Central Station after 36 years of abandonment. It was a grand finale with his new single “Houdini.”
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Seeing Jack White play “Hotel Yorba” literally next to the old Hotel Yorba was something special tonight at the star-studded hometown Detroit concert to reopen the restored, long-abandoned train station.
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Different views of Detroit’s reborn historic train station during star-studded hometown concert right now.
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The pre-show scene on a beautiful night in Detroit. Concert in front of beautifully restored train station starts at 8:30 p.m.
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Big burgers at the big concert tonight outside Michigan Central Station, a historic building brought back to life after decades of abandonment in Detroit.
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Small colleges, and the towns they serve, struggle mightily to survive. Some aren’t succeeding. You can find our series today at your corner gas station, printed old-school in an 8-page special section. @reporterdavidj, photogs, designers and copy editors did @freep proud today.
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