Here Are All The Things That Were Supposed To Save Detroit This Year

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There's a week left in 2013. Did any of these work?

1. Mike Duggan

2. Gayborhoods

3. Rand Paul

4. Phil Cooley (again)

5. Dan Gilbert

6. Sue Mosey

7. The Mower Gang

8. Kevyn Orr

9. China

10. Graffiti

11. Giving out your email address

12. Warren Buffett

13. Startups

14. Socialism

15. Defeating socialism

16. The Robocop Statue

17. Black business owners

18. David Spade

19. Wendy Williams (I think?)

20. A new Red Wings arena

21. Nuclear energy

22. Urban farming (again)

23. A sale to Canada

24. Immigrants (again)

25. Skateboarders

26. Arugula

27. Selling the DIA's assets

28. Teenagers discussing their problems in barbershops

29. People that use Bitcoin

30. Whatever Melinda Brown-Duncan, Baby, was talking about

31. Christianity

32. Millennials, specifically white millenials holding signs with hashtags

33. Making the city smaller

34. Veganism

35. Goats

36. Prairies

37. The "True Life" Teens

38. Churches

39. The anti-scrapper bill

40. The former chief information officer of Raleigh, N.C.

41. The enthusiasm and pride of a winning Tigers season (again)