What bankers will see on bus tour of troubled Brightmoor
Take a photo tour of one of Detroit’s most under-served communities.
Ex-Masonic Temple operators file for bankruptcy
The bankruptcy filing comes after a $142,000 donation from rocker Jack White.
Plan: Turn old Tiger Stadium site into public sports complex
Past preservation attempts have been thwarted by city officials, who have insisted – wrongly, so far – that the site can garner tens of millions of dollars from a major developer.
Detroit EM: Pugh must resign or return to work
Pugh has not responded to colleagues or reporters in the past week. He disabled his Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Council President Pugh missing, disables social media accounts
Not even Pugh’s office or colleagues know where the president is, causing confusion and slowing the legislative process.
Public, media forced out of EM meeting
Although Orr and his advisers were warned that as many as 1,000 Detroiters may show up, they held the event in a cramped, 250-seat venue at Wayne State University.
Grass: Detroit is overgrown with negligence
Thigh-high grass has swallowed swaths of Detroit that now look more like prairies than neighborhoods. Dozens of parks that Mayor Bing pledged to maintain are a sea of green.
Bloomberg Writer: Detroit should sell artwork to more deserving city
“Great artworks shouldn’t be held hostage by a relatively unpopular museum in a declining region,” the columnist writes.
Can Detroit protect DIA artwork from sale to satisfy creditors? Maybe not, but state steps in
A leading Republican in the Michigan legislature introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at protecting the Detroit Institute of the Arts’ world-class collection from a sale to shrink the cit’s enormous $15 billion in long-term debt.
Exclusive: Gov. Snyder plans to appoint emergency manager over Detroit after little progress
State officials have been meeting privately with city leaders over the past month to discuss the future under a state financial takeover.