Stephen Henderson’s recent analysis of Mayor Mary Sheffield’s budget captures Detroit’s fiscal reality with unusual clarity: the city is making real progress on bonded debt, but rising pension costs and a dysfunctional tax structure leave policymakers with “no way out, few ways up.”  That diagnosis is right. The conclusion is not.  Detroit does have a […]

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The city of Detroit fired its chief bus safety officer Wednesday after he blew the whistle on a top Department of Transportation official for allegedly showing up drunk at a transit center, berating employees, assaulting a security guard, and driving off in a city-issued car.  

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The former Vice President and Democratic Party presidential candidate visited the Fillmore in support of 107 Days, her political memoir of the 2024 election.

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