This publication was defunct for several months. Now they're back, boasting the best Michigan daily news roundup anywhere. And if you don't like the writing, or are loyal to the schools they make fun of, there's a nice photo to lead things off today.

Quoted: Turns out, Davenport has dorms and a hockey team called the Panthers and everything! Go figure. One of their dorms was evacuated yesterday because of some weird smell. This whole thing was probably set up by the Davenport Board of Trustees to promote that they have dorms.

More navel gazing from Detroit, but this one is pretty good.

Quoted: And yet the story from the local guy that runs in a national publication reinforces all of Detroit's old stereotypes by opening in a homeless shelter, then offering an inventory of the negative and ignoring what I see every day in Detroit. I can't help but feeling like one of those creatures in Horton Hears a Who! shouting: "We are here! We are here! We are here!" We're not stuck or for that matter necessarily tough. We just like going to neighborhood bars like The Bronx, a rogue art show or two, and running into 50 percent of our friends in one trip to Avalon International Breads. We like living surrounded by the Great Lakes and across the river from Canada. We like being surrounded by some of the most creative people, musicians and artists anywhere

Wow, that's good news. Didn't expect it after the managed bankruptcy talk yesterday.

Quoted: "In the midst of a financial crisis...allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action," Mr. Bush said.

Yum. We've got a lot of burgers to try. This is the only one I've had.

Quoted: The one-third-pound ground round burger is a signature of this clubby, upscale bar in the Pointes. They come thick and very juicy, cooked just as you ordered and great plain or loaded up with ingredients. They're "the best of the best," reader Christina Olofsson wrote from Troy.

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This kid did the intros last night at the game we went to - looks like it was his fourth time. Dice is back to 6th man, so no word on whether he still hits Al-a-biggity-bama with the same early high note. The girl who came out as Sheed did great leading the team in dance with the real Sheed cheering her on.

Quoted: Each year, the Detroit Pistons make kids the stars for Kids Opening Night. Check out highlights of past Kids Opening Nights and find out more at Pistons.com

Quoted: The greatest part of the appeal for these Michigan graduates is this sense of community, and the potential to help change (and be changed by) a city that has lost so much — particularly in population and business — to its sprawling suburbs.

Here's the Michigan version of new websites going up in swing states. John McCain really doesn't understand Michigan...no chance of changing that since he decided to hightail it out of here.

Quoted: Learn why John McCain just doesn't understand Michigan.

The News ran a similar column today with more name-calling and less insight. Let's hope something actually happens this week.

Quoted: To what end are we all being forced to watch the tragic self-immolation of Kwame Kilpatrick?

Quoted: This is no time to sit tight and shoot angles. It's time to get in Kwame Kilpatrick's way and stop him before the damage is beyond repair.