Detroit needs more than better management
What makes the city’s problems so hard is the harsh reality of operating a government – any government – in these times.
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What Detroit Needs Now
With Governor’s Snyder’s announcement that an emergency manager is on the way, the time for navel-gazing and re-litigating the past is over. It’s time to finally take strong, even radical, action to fix Detroit. So, what to do now? I do not pretend to have a magic formula. But I think a new mindset is … Continue Reading →
Healthcare, lies and videotape
“It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” -Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Show me the money! (And where its gonna come from!)
Well, the Mayor of Troy and those pesky Tea Party types on the city council are taking a lot of heat for not jumping like addicts at a crack house for $8.4 million in federal money for a transit center. Oh, the foolishness! After all, its free government money, isn’t it? There is no argument … Continue Reading →