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To the editor: Reading that "10 years since bankruptcy, Detroit fires again but city workers and retirees feel burned" (The Chief, July 21) is no surprise. When plans are made to balance budgets, …
Mike Berent has spent more than 27 years rushing into burning houses in Detroit, pulling people to safety and ensuring his fellow firefighters get out alive. But as the 52-year-old Detroit Fire …
The city's finances are better, but city workers and retirees feel burned.
The bankruptcy restructured or wiped out about $7 billion in debt, while setting aside $1.7 billion to improve city services
Thousands of Detroit city employees and retirees lost big on July 18, 2013, when a state-appointed manager made Detroit the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy