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Transcript: Profile: Efforts of Detroit's new mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to revitalize the city after decades of urban decay
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- February 10, 2002
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Profile: Efforts of Detroit's new mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to revitalize
the city after decades of urban decay
Host: LISA SIMEONE
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
LISA SIMEONE, host:
Not all cities manage to land Olympic sporting events, but all cities
do need to compete for tourists and business and--well, just to promote
themselves as good places to live. The city of Detroit is battling
to recover from decades of urban decay and re-emerge as a world-class
city. An economic recovery has been under way for several years.
But now the recovery effort is in the hands of a new mayor, Kwame
Kilpatrick. At 31 years old, he is the youngest mayor in the history
of ...