The Detroit Fire Department is dangerously close to running out of trucks and engines to respond to fires because the aging, overrun fleet is breaking down faster than mechanics can make repairs
Dozens of reporters received a cryptic e-mail from Mayor Dave Bing’s office at noon Thursday. When reporters arrived, Mayor Bing was pulling petitions to seek his second full term in office.
The city of Detroit cleared the final hurdle to begin demolishing the storied, crumbling Brewster projects that loom like towering gravestones over I-75 near downtown.
If Mayor Dave Bing gets his way, parking fines will increase. Delinquent on three tickets? You face the boot and could lose your driver’s license.
The fire department is so understaffed that the entire east side was without fire protection for about two hours while about 18 companies battled the fires.
Mayor Bing’s tax-funded consultants suggested he drastically cut the council budget and make the members part-time. He didn’t.
Detroit’s city council is one of the most expensive and ridiculed in the country.
It appears to be another rash of arsons in a city that can’t afford to keep its stations open and rigs on the road.
Saying some Detroit officials are “black on the outside, but white on the inside,” Minister Malik Shabazz and more than a dozen protesters tried to hand-deliver Oreo cookies to city hall offices in the latest protest against an emergency manager in Detroit.
“It’s a very dangerous situation,” said Dan McNamara, president of the firefighters’ union.