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Michigan losing millions in film business money
DETROIT – The remake of the 1976 movie Sparkle is being shot in Detroit this week, and a call went out to local actors looking for extras. The problem is, there might not be too many more major films...
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Michigan gov Rick Synder: Detroit '90 percent' close to consent deal
DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder held his first town hall meeting in Detroit and said that he has no desire to run Detroit. With the April 2 budget deadline quickly approaching, Snyder said that the...
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Detroit passes consent agreement, avoids emergency manager
DETROIT – After weeks of legal wrangling, contentious meetings, and delays, the Detroit City Council narrowly passed a consent agreement with the state of Michigan to overhaul the beleaguered city’s...
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Michigan voters get say on emergency manager law
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An attempt to kill a Michigan law that gives emergency managers sweeping powers to fix poor communities’ finances will appear on the November ballot, the state Supreme Court said...
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Michigan emergency manager law ruling leads to celebration and confusion
DETROIT – With Friday’s 4-3 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court that Public Act 4, the state’s controversial Emergency Manager law, would be up for a repeal vote on the November ballot, opponents of...
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Detroit emergency manager law defeated in close vote
DETROIT – Public Act 4, Michigan’s controversial emergency financial manager law, was struck down by voters in a tightly contested vote on Tuesday. The repeal, while met with cheers from community...
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GOP state senator suggests ‘dissolving Detroit’ as bankruptcy looms
DETROIT – For the third time this year, the city of Detroit is staring at potential bankruptcy as legal wrangling over “control” has caused $10 million in state aid to be withheld from the city. The...
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Detroit under review for emergency financial manager
DETROIT – Just 24 hours after a Michigan state representative’s recall effort of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing went into motion, a review began that will likely lead to an emergency financial manager being...
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GOP electoral vote split push faces backlash… from Republicans
Republican-backed plans to make electoral voting in swing states like Michigan, Virginia, Ohio and Florida proportional have had progressives and civil rights groups nervous for weeks. Currently only...
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Michigan gov Rick Synder says Detroit financial manager job has few takers
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says some people are already saying they don’t want the job of fixing Detroit’s financial woes. Snyder hasn’t even decided if he’ll appoint an emergency...
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Who will take on job of fixing Detroit’s finances?
DETROIT (AP) — It appears the appointment of an emergency manager to take over Detroit’s failing finances is all but a done deal. But one question remains: Who will get the difficult, thankless job?...
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Kevyn Orr, bankruptcy expert, named Detroit emergency manager
DETROIT – What had been threatened for years and expected for months finally happened as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder recommended Kevyn Orr, a Washington, D.C. attorney, for emergency manager for...
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‘Detroit’s broke’: Motor city becomes largest US city to go bankrupt
DETROIT – The moment that many in Detroit feared for years came to fruition at just after 4:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Once the industrial center of the United States, Detroit gained the dubious...
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Michigan governor Rick Snyder: Some Detroit creditors may never be paid
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says some Detroit creditors are not sure they will be repaid. Snyder was speaking Friday, a day after Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr made Detroit the...
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Judge stops lawsuits against Detroit bankruptcy
DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge agreed with Detroit on Wednesday and stopped any lawsuits challenging the city’s bankruptcy, declaring his courtroom the exclusive venue for legal action in the largest...
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Detroit manager defends actions before bankruptcy
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s emergency manager faced tough cross-examination Tuesday from lawyers for unions and retirees as he defended his decision to take the city into bankruptcy without first striking...
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Can mayor-elect Mike Duggan save the city of Detroit?
Former CEO of Detroit Medical Center Mike Duggan has defeated opponent Benny Napoleon, the Wayne County Sheriff, becoming Detroit’s next mayor at one of the toughest times in the city’s history. On...
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Guaranteed losers in a bankrupt city: Detroit’s promised pensions in doubt
In 1963, citizens in the state of Michigan thought that public pensions were guaranteed. In 2013, citizens discovered in life there are few guarantees. On this Tuesday, Detroit once again made history...
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Disaster in Flint, Michigan: How a water crisis spiraled out of control
It is unsafe to drink the water in Flint, Michigan, because it’s full of so much lead Governor Rick Snyder had to declare a state of emergency. It doesn’t get much worse than that. When most people...
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Jesse Jackson: Flint residents ‘betrayed’ in water crisis
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Flint, Michigan, residents coping with a drinking water crisis “have been betrayed.” The civil rights leader told a crowd at a church Sunday in Flint...
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder devotes speech to Flint water crisis
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has used his annual State of the State address to reaffirm his pledge to fix the water crisis gripping Flint and offer more evidence about what he knew...
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Role race, poverty played in Flint water crisis
FLINT, Michigan (AP) — Ever since the full extent of the water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan, emerged, one question has persisted: Would this have happened in a wealthier, whiter community?...
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Public officials must face the music for Flint water crisis
The Flint water crisis and the poisoning of black children is yet another example of violence waged against African-Americans each and every day. Sometimes, the crimes take the form of bullets (from...
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State workers in Flint got bottled water as crisis brewed
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A state official says Michigan offered fresh bottled water for state employees in Flint starting in January 2015, although residents were told that tap water was safe to drink until...
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Why Flint’s water crisis should give death penalty supporters pause
Having represented a death row prisoner who grew up in Michigan — who I am firmly convinced might not have committed his crimes had he not been subject to lead poisoning during his formative years — I...
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Congressmen call out Rick Snyder on Flint: ‘No more phony apologies’
Thursday morning, Pennsylvania Rep. Matt Cartwright and Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings ripped into Michigan Governor Rick Snyder during the congressional hearing on the state of the water in Flint,...
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