Success, is in such dire straits that the city is in need of an intervention. On tuesday afternoon, a panel of stateappointed experts released their findings that the city of detroit faces quote, a financial emergency, one which they say the city is not equipped to address. As a result, detroit may soon become the largest american municipality in history to file for bankruptcy. The decision may be left to just one person. If michigan governor rick snider decides to act on the panels report and appoint an emergency financial manager, a decision expected to be made in the coming week. Key findings of the sixperson panel include that the Detroit Police department has more than 2,000 employees but no Accurate Information on how they are deployed. That the citys longterm liabilities in 2012 grew beyond 14 billion and that the city officials violated accounting and budgeting rules. Detroit is on the verge of collapse but if youre thinking wait a minute, didnt we already save detroit, the con
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Alex is off today. Some areas getting blanketed by snow and in some cases, the worse of the season so far. Overnight snowfall remains in a lot of areas, and the fierce winter storm causing trouble on roadways but not necessarily drivers. Some say they saw it coming. Stay off of the side streets because the main roads are being salted and plowed but the side streets are not so for me living at the bottom of a hill you can see you have a hard time getting up. Lets go live to msnbcs chris with an update. Looks white behind you, chris. How bad is it . Yeah as you can see right now the snow has gone from really big puffy flakes down to what looks like a little ice crystals, so the storm may be tapering off but we are expected to get more this afternoon. Things have changed here on the ground, and i want to show you here in massachusetts, we are 25 miles north from the city of boston, and here in downtown andover, we are down to bare pavement, and thats probably the temperature but also the
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