 the cure to all of detroit s problems what does detroit need most if you guessed more businesses more police officers or less corruption you would be wrong in the eyes of marie donigan a state representative democrat from royal oak among others light rail is what detroit needs most but she understands the challenges but marie donigan a state rep from royal oak says ldquo it rsquo s not a whacky birkenstock idea rdquo well not when it rsquo s our money she wants to spend she admits however that ldquo it rsquo s going to take a huge effort to educate the the public rdquo to use the product see you need to get your mind right to this idea to bring people to a city that doesn t deserve to have people brought to it we rsquo ve got 44 ambulances says detroit news awardwinning reporter charlie leduff about the city rsquo s broken ems system twentytwo by law are supposed to be running we got 1718 on any given night because they rsquo re broken light rail now there is a man after my own heart a light rail system in detroit will never make money ever but that s not the point the point is to reward detroit for throwing votes to obama and to make detroit seem like a thriving recovering city michigan s jewel at one point it was but that was decades ago and it will never again regain that status if you really want a light rail put it someplace where it would be useful that pretty much excludes anyplace in michigan but if our elected officials insist on spending good money after bad at least put it in grand rapids  an honest to goodness growing city with great potential for future growth i was in grand rapids over the weekend it has grown since the last time i was there earlier in the year with more construction started an actual thriving city in michigan but grand rapids doesn t have the critical mass of democrat voters or a selfcaused sob story so it is out of the running  