Mayor Bing won’t seek another term but eyeing run for Wayne County executive
Mayor Dave Bing, whose popularity has steadily declined since taking office in 2009, won’t run for re-election after all, but he has his eyes on something else.
Day before filing deadline, Bing still unsure whether he’ll run for re-election – or is he?
Bing appeared to struggle when asked about his political plans during a press conference about the city’s finances today.
Mayor Bing’s chance to spread good news goes up in flames – literally
In a city as broke as Detroit, it’s not often that Mayor Dave Bing has good news to report.
Cemetery Disgrace: City of Detroit neglects burial ground as gravestones stolen, vandalized
From the street, Forest Hill Cemetery looks like an overgrown vacant lot with a collapsing fence surrounded by garbage.
Motor City Muckraker revamps website for increased coverage of Detroit’s financial emergency
Almost a year ago, we launched Motor City Muckraker to serve as an independent watchdog in a city where corruption, inequality, poverty and poor services have taken an immeasurable toll on many of Detroit’s 700,000 residents.
Mayor Bing quietly slips out of town, makes his communications expert the acting mayor
Bob Warfield, a former executive at WDIV-TV news, was hired to revamp the city’s two cable stations. But run a $1.1 billion budget?
Ten people shot in one day in Detroit; two victims in 20s were struck by stray bullets
A 26-year-old woman was minding her own business at a park on Detroit’s east side Wednesday afternoon when shots rang and struck her while a group of men was arguing.
After Mayor Bing cuts police patrols amid spiking violence, he seeks to raise own security detail to 30 officers
On any given night, officers arrive to work with a backlog of cases that would be a priority in most cities. But police are overwhelmed with murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and armed robberies.
Two people murdered in Detroit arson fire but investigators took more than hour to respond
It was another bad night in Detroit: Two dead. Another suspected arson. No law enforcement.
Was a bomb planted on Detroit’s west side? Police were too busy to find out
Detroit firefighters began evacuating residents this evening after someone spotted a suspicious gray box with a blinking red light and wires tied to a pole.