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Emergency Manager

Detroit's emergency manager is considering selling the city's art collection to help pay bills. (Courtesy NBC News)

Selling art to save Detroit?

Carrie Healey
NBC NEWS - Detroit's emergency manager considers auctioning off city's precious art collection to help pay bills...
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In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo Detroit Mayor Dave Bing tours the North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center in Detroit. The former NBA great, who transitioned smoothly to owner and founder of a steel supply company, became Mayor of Detroit in 2009. In basketball and business, he never side-stepped a challenge, but the overwhelming weight of Detroit’s financial problems and other troubles have convinced Bing to pass control of the city over to the state. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Daniel Mears, File)

Dave Bing's legacy clouded by emergency manager threat

Corey Williams, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) - In basketball and in business, Dave Bing never side-stepped a challenge...
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Who wants to manage Detroit's finances?

Corey Williams, Associated Press
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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Detroit mayor to critics: 'We inherited a hell hole'

Jay Scott Smith
DETROIT – For Dave Bing, a pro basketball hall of famer and successful business owner, his time as the Detroit’s mayor has been as tumultuous as any since the early days of the man whom city hall is named after: Coleman A. Young...
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Detroit, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Bing says the Motor City is in the late portion of its comeback effort, down double digits and he has the ball. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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...
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