I am glad I ventured over to News Notes as it was interesting to read Matt Labash’s essay on Detroit and compare/contrast it to Mitch Albom’s essay on the same subject.

I am with you in that I don’t always like Mitch Albom’s columns/work, but his essay in Sports Illustrated and re-run in The Detroit Free Press was well done.

I read, I believe in The Detroit News, that a Cincinnati reporter’s take on Albom’s story was a way of looking for people not from or living in the Detroit area to feel bad for the people who are living through these times.

As the reporter from The Detroit News indicated and you wrote in this post, Albom is simply pointing things out as the currently stand ( along with related history) and yet how the people of this city/area have that something in them that allows them to continue foward with determination, grit and hope.