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LANSING, MI – The state is once again refusing to send its monthly revenue sharing payment to Detroit. The cash-strapped city is late filing a legally required audit of its books with the Michigan Treasury.
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The state Treasury is now sitting on $24.6 million dollars in payments to the city. The August payment alone would have been more than $11 million. The city is eight months late filing the audit, dating back to the administration of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Since then, the financial woes facing Michigan s largest city have continued to pile on. Detroit has a budget deficit of at least $300 million, and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing warns the city is rapidly burning through all the money it has in the bank. At the same time, the new mayor is trying to negotiate layoffs and salary reductions with city workers.
The body parts for a RoboCop statue are displayed in sculptor Giorgio Gikas studio in Detroit. Photo: AP
The largest fictional keeper of law and order in Detroit may not stand watch at one Motor City museum as planned.
The Michigan Science Center announced recently that it no longer plans to be home to an 11-foot-tall (3.4m) bronze RoboCop statue,
The Detroit News reported.
Due to unprecedented pressures” from the coronavirus pandemic, resources must now be entirely focused on our core mission of serving Michigan’s students and families, ” the centre said in a statement.
The 1987 film
RoboCop was set - but not filmed - in a futuristic and crime-ridden Detroit. The title character, a cyborg police officer, was played by actor Peter Weller.
The statue was crowdfunded through a Kickstarter campaign. Organisers wrote last year that the stainless-steel base weighed half a ton. The idea for the statue appears to have started about a decade ago when a Twitter user, who tagged then-Detroit Mayor Dave Bing in a tweet, noted that Philadelphia has a statue of another movie icon, boxer Rocky Balboa, and that RoboCop would be a “GREAT ambassador for Detroit”. Bing tweeted back, saying there were no plans in Detroit for a statue of RoboCop. But Detroiters Brandon Walley, a filmmaker, and Jerry Paffendorf, co-founder and CEO at Loveland Technologies, ran with the idea, envisioning it as a tourist attraction.
DETROIT - The largest fictional keeper of law and order in Detroit may not stand watch at one Motor City museum as planned.The Michigan Science Center a.