Big Ed lessons for Detroit mayoral race
McNamara helped many people in many so ways – and he was never indicted of any wrongdoing.
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Mike Duggan
In Detroit crisis, Duggan rises
Duggan has the most experience in problem solving. But he has to overcome the outsider label.
Duggan and the Big Ed connection
Ed McNamara was a great mentor who was also colorblind.
Who's the right emergency manager for Detroit?
Running the City of Detroit is not an appointed position. The job is not given by a board after search committee reports and interviews. There are no record and achievement presentations that qualify a person to be CEO of Detroit. The person that wants the job must simply jump into the race by meeting the … Continue Reading →
Giving up on leadership, Detroiters bolt for the exits
The people of Detroit are looking for something, anything, that will end the get-out-of-Detroit movement. Their children, grandchildren and neighbors are all packing and backing out of driveways daily. Pastors are looking for land to build in the outlying areas near the city, something across Eight Mile or near the airport area, just out of … Continue Reading →
Can Detroit be fixed?
There is a lot of talk about who will be the mayor of Detroit in 2014. But who wants a city that has been on the decline for the last four decades, has lost residents every year for the last 40 years, is on the way to bankruptcy, has schools that are day-care centers more … Continue Reading →
Media, do your job and do right by the Detroit electorate!
Unlike four years ago when the media appeared to show themselves to be either blind, deaf or a combination of both, it would be a major travesty to ignore the recordings that were played Thursday in the federal corruption trial of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The fact that the name Mike Duggan surfaced in the … Continue Reading →
Should skin matter?
Gary Peters looks white. I never heard him say he was. Hansen Clarke has said he’s black. Does it matter? Some say he’s Latino, others said they know he’s Arab, but both men are running for a national office from a city that is minority-majority black, a city that has been the “black and proud” … Continue Reading →
