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Michigan, under state supervision from 1986 to the year 2000. how did that decade of control go for fixing things in ecorse, michigan? theres the city of flint, michigan. the buckle of the rust belt. flint went broke a decade ago and got fixed by an emergency manager. after that flint went broke again and has another emergency manager. theres highland park, michigan, a city inside detroit that spent the whole decade of the 2000s under emergency management. heck of a lot of good that did them. th...

Manager has become a whistleblower about michigans radical emergency manager law, the law that does away with your right to vote for your representatives at the local level. a speech was given in michigan last week in which he said it doesnt make sense to try to save these towns by rendering newt, by doing away with the means by which most towns are supposed to work and solve their problems. he says an emergency manager must work toward building up the social capital, building up the democracy o...

Add all of this up on one side of the ledger, if pontiac, michigan, laid off every single person, and as an emergency manager, you can do that. if you fired everybody, if you eliminated the whole town payroll, pontiac would still be in the red, in deficit by over $1 million. even with nobody working for the town. with all the power michigan republicans had given him, with unilateral authority to ignore the citys founding charter and do anything he wants, with the power to be a dictator in the pa...

Plus tax money from the county is down 8 o% leaving the city on the hook for a couple million in debt. add all of this up on one side of the ledger, if pontiac, michigan, laid off every single person, and as an emergency manager, you can do that. if you fired everybody, if you eliminated the whole town payroll, pontiac would still be in the red, in deficit by over $1 million. even with nobody working for the town. with all the power michigan republicans had given him, with unilateral authority t...

Trucks in pontiac, too. thats over now. they moved that work to indiana. the detroit lions used to play football in the pontiac silver dome. the lions left pontiac in the silver dome in 2002. this is pontiac now and frankly pontiac is broke. in 2009 the state took over pontiac and installed an emergency manager whose mission was to balance the books in that city. a few months into his tenure, they sold the pontiac silver dome to a guy from canada. in the mid 1970s the silver dome cost $55 millio...

He said the city was unwilling or unable to collect the money it was rightfully owed. he said the police department seemed to him to be corrupt. several months into his tenure, michigan republicans souped up and made way more powerful the emergency manager law giving managers like michael stampler essentially unilateral control of their cities. the republicans new version of the law, an emergency manager can rewrite contracts, strip all power from elected officials. the emergency manager can do ...

Something of a whistleblower about michigans radical emergency manager law that does away with kwur right to vote. michael sampler gave a speech if in which he said it doesnt make sense to save the towns, by neutering and doing away with the means by which towns work and solve the problems. he says an emergency manager mutt work up to the democracy of town if the town survives after an emergency manager guy like him leaves. >> you turn the city back to sort of a void. they havent been part of a ...

Right to vote for your representatives at the local level. a speech was given in michigan last week in which he said it doesnt make sense to try to save these towns by rendering newt, by doing away with the means by which most towns are supposed to work and solve their problems. he says an emergency manager must work toward building up the social capital, building up the democracy of the town if the towns going to survive after an emergency manager guy like him leaves. >> you turn the city back ...

Thats how that went. last year pontiac got a new emergency manager, who joked about himself as the tyrant in pontiac. he says he thinks pontiac is getting better and the citys troubles are almost over. he used to be the emergency manager in another michigan city. he left there in 2006. he said the books were balanced, mission accomplished, done and dusted. he took care of it. how have they held up since then. this is the newspaper today. the review quote, is the city facing a financial doomsday?...

They named pontiac the car after pontiac the city back when they were still making them. general motors used to build trucks in pontiac, too. thats over now. they moved that work to indiana. the detroit lions used to play football in the pontiac silver dome. the lions left pontiac in the silver dome in 2002. this is pontiac now and frankly pontiac is broke. in 2009 the state took over pontiac and installed an emergency manager whose mission was to balance the books in that city. a few months int...