Showing posts with label EFM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EFM. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2014

Oakland County To Detroit's EFM: No To THE DWSD Pig-In-A-Poke

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Okaland County has formally announced they won't be the sucker in the regionalization of Detroit Water and Sewer Department. Regionaliz...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014

A Supposed Bargain For Detroit's DWSD Pig In A Poke?

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Detroit's EFM, Kevyn Orr, has recently come down in his asking price for the suburbs to "lease" the Detroit Water a Sewer Depa...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

EFM Trying To Fleece Suburbs To Benefit Detroit

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The Emergency Financial Manager of Detroit you must remember is a Democrat, and as a Democrat his first thought is to grab for other peopl...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

Another Democrat-Ruled Detroit-Area Demense Destined For An EFM

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Royal Oak Township, with an apt acronym of ROT, is a prima facie example of how a township can be mismanaged by Democrats. ROT is all of a h...
Friday, September 27, 2013

With No Help From Detroit's City Council, Belle Isle May Be Saved After All

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Belle Isle may finally get out from under its decades of neglect and underfunding due to the misrule of Detroit City Council of this ...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

RePughdiation In Detroit

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The Detroit News: Orr strips absent Pugh of pay, powers Orr stripped Pugh’s powers and $76,000-a-year salary one day after the highest-rank...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Detroit City Clowncil Starting To Abandon A Sinking Ship

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Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, Detroit's City Council members are rapidly heading for the exit as the city flounders in default an...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

EFM Orr to Bondholders: You F-ed Up. You Trusted Detroit.

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The Detroit News: Lenders take it on the chin in Orr's plan Emergency Financial Manager Orr just declared that bond holders with limit...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Detroit Goes Into Default, Bankruptcy May Follow

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Either EFM Kevyn Orr is trying to pull off the bluff of the century over Detroit's creditors, or the City is truly screwed - or both, ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

EFM Orr Announces What We Already Know: Detroit Is Insolvent

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Even as he announced that Detroit is insolvent he instructed creditors that they couldn't bring phones or recording devices to their ini...
Friday, May 31, 2013

In Detroit, Art May Get To Imitate The City's Financial Life

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Hot on the heels of the art tax levy on Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne Counties to ensure fund the Detroit Institute of Arts after the City of D...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Detroit Dizzily Dances Round De Drain

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As noted by Right Michigan, Detroit is teetering on the edge of Chapter 9 bankruptcy: The Corpse Is Still In The Morgue . Go read it to get...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Not A Sharp Move- Al Sharpton Comes To Detroit

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Not one to be upstaged by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton is now showing up in Detroit, dipping in and promising civil disobedience over the appo...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

The Detroit Macarena: Jesse Jackson Promises Protests Against The EFM

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Detroit's decline and the appointment of an EFM is bringing all the usual race-card playing suspects out of their holes to assemble at t...
Monday, March 18, 2013

EFM Is Moving Quick to Try and Stabilize Detroit - But Will His Water Department Proposal Help Or Is It Playing The Suburbs For Suckers?

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After a bit of a rough start over some personal unpaid childcare provider unemployment taxes , the EFM, Kevyn Orr, is moving ahead to get De...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Detroit EFM Named, Idiotic Traffic Protests Continue

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Kevyn Orr , an experience restructuring attorney has been appointed to be the Emergency Financial Manager for Detroit. As is necessary unde...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Detroit City Council Hits Stage 3

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As predicted, the Detroit City Council quickly reached Stage 3 on the Kübler-Ross mode l regarding dealing with grief or impending demise: ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Meanwhile, The Detroit City Council Goes Through The Stages of Grief Over The EFM

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The Detroit City Council quixotically persists in its appeal of the appointment of an EFM, trying to hold onto their positions as the city c...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Detroit Mayor Sees Reason, Won't Appeal EFM, The Detroit City Council However....

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So Mayor Bing realizes some windmills aren't worth tilting at, and some appeals won't save you from the mess you're in. The Det...
Monday, March 04, 2013

EFM Announced For City of Detroit, In Response, Detroit's Ministers Amp Up The Racist Rhetoric

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Because nothing says racist crucifixion like the appointment of an EFM over a decayed and dying city: The Detroit News: Church sermons: Dem...
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