It’s looking like today may mark the beginning of the end for Detroit’s Mayor and City Council. According to numerous sources, the closed-door meetings on the take-over of the City have begun. The following comes from the Detroit Free Press. …A 10-member team appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder is trying to determine if a financial […]
Tag Archives: the Emergency Financial Manager Act
Detroit moves one step closer to state takeover
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics Also tagged Abraham Kane, animation, Benton Harbor, Chris Prynoski, Dave Bing, Disney, Ecorse, EFM, Emergency Financial Manager, Flint, John Conyers, Mike Chilton, Motorcity, Pontiac, race, Rick Snyder, Robocop, The Burners, union busting, vote oppression, voter suppression, Wendell Anthony 13 Comments
Democracy Now on the court case against Michigan’s Emergency Financial Managers
Yesterday, a lawsuit was brought by Detroit’s Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, challenging the legality of Michigan’s Emergency Financial Manager Act, which, as you will recall, gives the State the power to fire locally elected officials, replacing them with appointees (Czars) empowered to sell local assets, invalidate agreements, and […]
Posted in Detroit, Michigan Also tagged Amy Goodman, Andy Dillon, Constitution, corporate takeover of politics, coup d’état, Czars, Democracy Now, Edith Lee-Payne, Emergency Financial Manager, financial martial law, Georgia, Ingham County Circuit Court, John Philo, Kym Spring, Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, Naomi Klein, privatization, racism, Rick Snyder, right to vote, Rosemarie Aquilina, Sandy Springs, threats to Democracy 10 Comments
What Ypsi’s leaders will be doing to respond to Snyder’s proposed budget
Last night, I posted something here about Rick Snyder’s proposed budget, and my hope that our City’s leaders were actively working on an aggressive response, perhaps through an organization such as SEMCOG or the Michigan Municipal League. As with our earlier posts on the subject of the budget, it’s led to some good discussion. One […]
Posted in Economics, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti Also tagged 2012 Michigan budget, Andy Dillon, Bill Rustem, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, budget cuts, Business Leaders for Michigan, Carol Shafto, Dearborn, Ed Koryzno, Historic Preservation tax credits, Kirk Profit, looming receivorship, Michigan Association of Counties, Michigan Municipal League, Michigan Township Association, Michigan Urban Visioning Workshop, open for business, P.A. 72, Paul Schreiber, revenue sharing, Rick Snyder, SEMCOG, Southfield, Summer Minnick, Taylor, This Is Revenue Stealing, Thomas Mullaney, urban core cities 11 Comments