Link Drop - July 7, 2009

• Detroit Public Television and U of M Dearborn teamed up to interview all the candidates running for Detroit City Council or the charter commission (Michigan Messenger). You can watch the videos at MiVote.org. Great way to weed through the candidates.
  

• Does Obama have an urban agenda? If so, it's not a priority (Politico).
  

• Next American City questions the economics (and aesthetics) of convention centers. Prescient given our protracted struggle to renovate Cobo to save one flagship event.