Mike Duggan

DETROIT (AP) — The new mayor of Detroit was sworn into office on Wednesday, and despite the New Year’s Day holiday — and his limited powers in an insolvent city whose finances are controlled by a state-appointed emergency manager — he is starting work immediately…

OPINION – The rhetoric of turnaround may have gotten Mike Duggan elected, but there is a difference between running for mayor and being the mayor. In order to transform the city of Detroit he will need to do five key things…

theGRIO REPORT – While typically, the farm team for both national political parties has consisted of governors and Senators, Democrats have a growing field of star candidates drawn from the urban core…

theGRIO REPORT – 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…

DETROIT (AP) — When Mike Duggan recites the oath of office in January as Detroit’s first white mayor in four decades, he may — in a way — give the eulogy to a period of racial divide that has defined much of the city’s past…

theGRIO REPORT – If Duggan, a write-in candidate who overwhelmingly won the primary elections in August, wins, as the polls suggest, he will be the first white man to lead the 83 percent African-American city in 40 years…

DETROIT (AP) — A candidate once thought to have little chance of getting past Detroit’s primary election is the front runner Tuesday in the race for mayor, a job that will have little immediate power as the debt-ridden metropolis is guided through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history by a state-appointed emergency manager…