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    Detroit Children's Museum closes doors again

    DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Children's Museum has closed again amid ongoing financial problems at the shuttered Detroit Science Center, which runs the attraction.

    The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report the Children's Museum had been able to stay open through December despite the Science Center's troubles because of federal support. On Thursday, the Science Center issued a statement saying the Children's Museum was closed.

    The Science Center, which shut its doors in September, remains closed as officials try to raise funds for it to reopen.

    The Children's Museum was shuttered in 2009 amid cost-cutting by the city's school district. It reopened in 2010 with revamped exhibits, a new preschool area and more of its thousands of artifacts on display under an agreement with the Science Center.

     

    22 comments

    • peter r  •  Mt Laurel, New Jersey  •  4 mths ago
      Sad, instead of having solid schools, discipline and two parent families. This Black Ghetto city would rather entertain it's children, than educate them properly.
      • jtWallace 4 mths ago
        Many of those mothers use their #$%$ to increase their paychecks and there's nothing being done about it.
      • R. Mageddon 4 mths ago
        The root of the problem is the "liberal's" "War on Poverty." It destroyed the black family, b/c they couldn't get the free stuff if there was a husband in the house. Having a husband and father became a liability to a black family.
    • jtWallace  •  4 mths ago
      Unfortunately Detroit, a once thriving city is now nothing more than a waste land according to a recently moved family who more or less ''escaped'' the misery and broken down economy there. A city dominated by unions helped drive manufacturing companies overseas. We all know it. And, they're still hanging on to their power. But like the businesses they infected, so will they run out of power when there are no more jobs they can loot.
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        Unions had nothing to do with it #$%$!! Give blame where it is due, White people moved away because of black blight!!!
      • Carlsbad Tripper 4 mths ago
        I admit, I don't know much of the why? But for years, I've heard Detroit was a very high crime/ghetto area. I live in Calif. and people make remarks about how bad Detroit is. Hey, I do the love the RedWings though, they are my favorite hockey team.
      • Jane Marek 4 mths ago
        The companies moved overseas for greed, so the CEO can get multi-million dollar bonuses and the shareholders maximize returns.

        Eliminate good paying jobs and all race to the bottom as they don't need to compete
    • 41magnum  •  Bellevue, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      detroit! a prime example of a once great city that has been run by democrats and now has been abandoned by the whites!
      • R. Mageddon 4 mths ago
        Take a train ride from DC to NYC - the once-great cities destroyed by Democrats come one after the other. It's heartbreaking. "Trenton Makes and the World Takes" still painted on a bridge is a cruel mockery now.
    • R. Mageddon  •  4 mths ago
      The root of the problem is the "liberal's" "War on Poverty." It destroyed the black family, b/c they couldn't get the free stuff if there was a husband in the house. Having a husband and father became a liability to a black family. The result was a devastating blow to the self-esteem of the black man. THANKS, LIBS!!! Your ideas have worked like a charm...
    • R. Mageddon  •  4 mths ago
      My mother's entire family was born and raised in Detroit. I remeber visiting there when I was a kid, when it was just starting to get really bad. Lyndon Johnson' policies of social welfare pretty much doomed it as far back as the 60s. Now, it's a war zone...
    • George  •  Reseda, California  •  4 mths ago
      Just raze the entire city to the ground and turn it back into farm land, Detroit is a living example of what liberalism does ...
      • paul 4 mths ago
        I think it's more of what not using birth control does.
    • Chase  •  Greenwood, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      Yet we give billions to other countries and illegals.
      • jtWallace 4 mths ago
        Damnation! I wish you hadn't brought that up this early in the morning! Now I need another cup of coffee when I think of all the waste this country has paid out to illegals and as you said, overseas. Unless we cut our losses and get rid of illegals, overworked baby makin' #$%$ billions and more billions will continue to flow through the black hole our present clown in chief has and will continue to throw away.
      • Carlsbad Tripper 4 mths ago
        American's should be first! Our country is slipping, because we are taking care of others first, and not our citizens.
    • Greg  •  Blairsville, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      Great idea for such a thing but location , location, location. WHo wants to go near or through a dead city of union socialism made failures city. Most rather just avoid stupidity first than have to go through that to see a museum
    • jimpsonseed  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      Maybe they can borrow money from Solyndra. I hear they have 537 million taxpayer dollars that Obama gave them right before they went bankrupt.
    • A  •  4 mths ago
      All the museum is looking for is another federal handout. Sorry, but the county is broke.
    • Dave  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      Dems have squeezed every dime out of Detroit. It is dead.
    • Darklatinflavor  •  Paterson, New Jersey  •  4 mths ago
      There's a museum in Detroit?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      After all you Union Bashers get back from shopping at Wal-Mart, face reality and understand Unions BUILT DETROIT, they did not destroy it! That honor goes to black blight! Plain and simple!
    • EagleEyes66  •  4 mths ago
      This is what happens when liberal Democrats, working closely with union thugs, run things. Take a good look America...this is your future until we change things in November 2012!
    • killer  •  4 mths ago
      We don't need science in this country, so close it down permanently if the parents don't want to provide the needed financial support. Corporate America ravaged the City and then left it to die after they took all that they could take.
    • Richard  •  4 mths ago
      See what happens when you run legitimate businesses out of your neighborhood with taxes and crooked union workers. You thought they couldn't find anyone else to put that bolt on that car as good as you, Looks like they can. Now your unused museum is closed, who cares.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      Hopefully not until all the children were inside.
    • Jane Marek  •  4 mths ago
      We can give trillions to the pentagon and military to fight wars for oil but nothing for our children's education.
    • fiddycent  •  Hohenbrunn, Germany  •  4 mths ago
      Detroit is done. Full of blacks and muslims. It will never recover.
    • PITHIAN  •  Tampa, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      The pickaninnies like to play with knives and guns, not toys.
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