In Detroit crisis, Duggan rises
Duggan has the most experience in problem solving. But he has to overcome the outsider label.
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Busting unions and looking good doing it
The state of Michigan has joined other Republican-led states in the union-busting business. They didn’t go the hard head-up route taken by states like Wisconsin, they did it in the name of saving cities from bankruptcy. They appointed what the Republican governor calls emergency managers for smaller cities that were targets — Flint, Pontiac, Saginaw … Continue Reading →
The takeover of Detroit is all but done
The governor of Michigan has put in place some of his best known and best qualified people to hand him the city. I don’t think the new panel will decide to make an outsider the emergency manger of the city. That will cause too much stress in the city and bring the radicals of the … Continue Reading →