The Obama Administration

CHICAGO — When President-elect Barack Obama heads home for a break from the White House, he won’t go to a sprawling ranch or private seaside compound. Obama will come back to a crowded city neighborhood, creating different security challenges for the Secret Service and perhaps headaches for his neighbors.

Last week, Congress departed from Washington after refusing to bail out the Big Three auto manufacturers. This week, all eyes are on Obama. What will his policy be toward Detroit — meaning the huge auto industry that provides a living for hundreds of thousands of Americans; and, also, the troubled Black metropolis that has always […]

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod warned U.S. automakers, seeking billions in government help to stave off collapse, to devise a plan to retool and restructure. Otherwise, he said, “there is very little taxpayers can do to help them.”

From Bankole Thompson at the Michigan Chronicle: “It’s 3 a.m. and Detroit is calling, not because there is a security emergency, but because there is an economic emergency. It is imperative that Washington picks up the phone.”