Detroit emergency manager offers 'olive branch'

Corey Williams, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) - Detroit's new emergency manager offered a "sincere olive branch" Monday to local leaders who fought against creating his job, even as a crowd of protesters rallied outside City Hall during his first day trying to revive the city's beleaguered finances...

Black Dem named Detroit's emergency manager

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - The state’s emergency financial assistance board unanimously approved Orr an hour later making Detroit the largest city to fall under emergency management...

Michigan gov says Detroit financial manager job has few takers

Corey Williams, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says some people are already saying they don't want the job of fixing Detroit's financial woes...

Detroit under review for emergency financial manager

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - 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 appointed to the city...

Detroit emergency manager law defeated in close vote

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - Public Act 4, Michigan’s controversial emergency financial manager law, was struck down by voters in a tightly contested vote on Tuesday...

Mixed reaction to Michigan emergency manager ruling

Jay Scott Smith

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 and opponents of the law trumpeted it as a victory for democracy...

Michigan voters get say on emergency manager law

Associated Press

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 Friday, handing unions a major victory in their clash with Republican Gov. Rick Snyder over the law...

Detroit passes consent agreement, avoids emergency manager

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - 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 finances on Wednesday evening...

Gov: Detroit '90 percent' close to consent deal

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder held his first town hall meeting in Detroit and said that he has no desire to run Detroit...

Detroit mayor rejects emergency manager for city

Jay Scott Smith

theGRIO REPORT - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing gave his annual State of the City speech on Wednesday night and stood by earlier proclamations that the city would not face a takeover by an emergency financial manager...

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Emergency Financial Manager

Detroit emergency manager offers 'olive branch'

Black Dem named Detroit's emergency manager

Michigan gov says Detroit financial manager job has few takers

Detroit under review for emergency financial manager

Detroit emergency manager law defeated in close vote

Mixed reaction to Michigan emergency manager ruling

Michigan voters get say on emergency manager law

Gov: Detroit '90 percent' close to consent deal

Detroit mayor rejects emergency manager for city

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