Detroit Files For Bankruptcy
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Friday, June 26, 2026 17:40
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
So who has been in control of and running Detroit for the last 50 years?...
Detroit Mayors:
Jerome Cavanagh - DEMOCRAT
January 2, 1962 – January 5, 1970
Roman Gribbs - DEMOCRAT
January 6, 1970 – January 1, 1974
Coleman Young - DEMOCRAT
January 1, 1974 – January 3, 1994
Dennis Archer - DEMOCRAT
January 3, 1994 – December 31, 2001
Kwame Kilpatrick - DEMOCRAT
January 1, 2002 – September 18, 2008
Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. - DEMOCRAT
September 18, 2008 – May 11, 2009
Dave Bing - DEMOCRAT
May 11, 2009
All Democrats. What a shock!
Not at all, as I mentioned, problem is, the GOP candidates were in every case even sleazier - why not raise the damn bar instead of lowering it, I ask, cause "not as slimy as the other guy" is a damn poor standard to be going on with, isn't it ?
The first three weren't so bad, and Archer was indeed a crook, but he was a SMART crook - frankly I'd take a smart crook over an honest incompetent, you know ?
But yeah, every one of em since has been pretty revolting, and if the GOP can't offer something BETTER, you have to ask what they're made of, if all they got to offer is worse.
Oh, and side note, I am laughing up my sleeve at the tiny little minority who actually voted for Synder, mostly confined around here to a tiny stretch of Canton Center Rd... ALL of whom are moving out, whining and whinging about economic policies they voted for flying about as well as a cement airplane, but of course they can't ADMIT that Rand-ian bullshit only works in fiction so they blame everyone but themselves...
Bunch of mini-mansions going cheap, if anyone is interested, meh heh heh.
-Frem
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Never fear all is well!!!!
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/25/new-red-wing-stadium-should-
be-unaffected-by-detroit-bankruptcy/ 
In Firefly the Alliance merged the US flag with the flag of Communist China
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Oh don't EEEEVEN get me started about that goddamn stadium.
Or the cops posh casino HQ.
Or how those fucking casinos reneged on the deal and never actually paid the seventy five MILLION they owed back into the city, just like this bastard stadium won't.
Fuck the Red Wings.
-F
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Detroit retirees say city stole from them to exit bankruptcy
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/51746946-story
Some Detroit retirees are still fighting the city's bankruptcy.
They took to the streets in protest outside of the Detroit Institute of Arts Thursday where some key players in the bankruptcy were receiving awards.
Two judges, Gerald Rosen and Steven Rhodes were the deciders during Detroit's escape from bankruptcy, received the Dennis Archer Award for public service by the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association.
But outside the DIA, protestors, mostly retired city workers, say the judges decided to use their pensions to get out of bankruptcy.
"It appeared from the very beginning that their main purpose was to go after our pensions and health care," said William Davis, Detroit Active Retiree Association.
Davis says his pension was cut by 23 percent.
"It meant instead of my son going to Michigan State, now he’s at Wayne County Community College. It meant that we rapidly started burning through my savings."
And he claims some 19,000 other city retirees are in worse shape.
"There are a lot of people who didn't make as much money who probably didn't have any savings," Davis said. "Who have to choose between medicine or paying your mortgage."
Detroit was the largest city to ever go bankrupt. Then came "the grand bargain” private foundations pledging hundreds of millions and the state supplying nearly $200 million, even the DIA, expecting to chip in $100 million, all to help keep a portion of the pension alive.
Still protestors say a crime has been committed. They feel their money was stolen and they plan to take their fight to U.S. Supreme Court.
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In Detroit, a push to help Black farmers purchase land
https://grist.org/agriculture/in-detroit-a-push-to-help-black-farmers-
purchase-land/
Hamtramck in Detroit area is latest facing lead in water
https://www.wral.com/hamtramck-in-detroit-area-is-latest-facing-lead-i
n-water/19938706/
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Detroit museums ask the city for more funding in 2024 budget
https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-museums-2024-budget/
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Multiple people shot during a brawl in Downtown Detroit..
https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2069986875301859346
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