City Inside Detroit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from City inside detroit. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In City Inside Detroit Today - Breaking & Trending Today

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120501:04:51:00

This is not incompetence. is democracy the problem? is it just that the bad people of detroit are making bad choices when they vote? when they put people in charge of running their city? could detroit somehow be an oasis in michigan, if only its elected officials had miraculously done a better job fending off one of the greatest industrial collapses seen in western history followed by the worst economic crisis since the great depression? with the state now in control of its finances detroit is facing huge budget cuts. the fire chief says they might have to let the empty buildings in detroit burn when they catch fire. the plan now is you cut money for police and firefighters and just let some of the buildings burn. you slash city services and then what? you sit back and watch families decide to move to your city and businesses race in to invest in a town where there s not enough, and the fire chief says we re going to leave it to burn? pontiac s former emergency manager has become a w ....

Isn Ta Problem , City Inside Detroit , Fire Chief , Budget Cuts , City Services , Emergency Manager , Left Pontiac , Emergency Manager Law ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120501:08:51:00

We saw manufacturing meltdown. we saw plants go from michigan to mexico. that s trade policy. this is not incompetence. is democracy the problem? is it just that the bad people of detroit are making bad choices when they vote? when they put people in charge of running their city? could detroit somehow be an oasis in michigan, if only its elected officials had miraculously done a better job fending off one of the greatest industrial collapses seen in western history followed by the worst economic crisis since the great depression? with the state now in control of its finances detroit is facing huge budget cuts. the fire chief says they might have to let the empty buildings in detroit burn when they catch fire. the plan now is you cut money for police and firefighters and just let some of the buildings burn. you slash city services and then what? you sit back and watch families decide to move to your city and businesses race in to invest in a town where there s not enough, and the fire ....

Isn Ta Problem , City Inside Detroit , Trade Policy , Manufacturing Meltdown , Fire Chief , Budget Cuts , Emergency Manager , Left Pontiac , City Services ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120501:04:50:00

The towns where the state uprooted the democracy, they are not fixed. last week a guest on our show, the reverend david bollack of detroit made a counterproposal. if you want to help detroit, flint, benton harbor, saginaw, if you want to help the cities in michigan, let s deal with foreclosure. 90,000 foreclosures in the city of detroit. that s 90,000 forced evictions in the last three years. so if you look at 300,000 people leaving one city, you re seeing the tax base leave. this city is not in financial strain because of mismanagement, because people are incompetent. that is not the right analysis. we have to deal with foreclosure, insurance redlining. and so what the state should be doing is helping to the federal government, county government and state government to reinvest in these cities. we michigan is a manufacturing state. really, really a one-industry state. so as the automotive industry, we saw manufacturing meltdown. we saw plants go from michigan to mexico. that s t ....

City Inside Detroit , Madea Counterproposal , Reverend David Bollack Of Detroit , Benton Harbor , Michigan City , Tax Base Leave , Forced Evictions , State Government , Insurance Redlining , County Government , Manufacturing State , Trade Policy , Automotive Industry , Manufacturing Meltdown ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120501:08:49:00

Michigan, under state supervision from 1986 to the year 2000. how did that decade of control go for fixing things in ecorse, michigan? there s the city of flint, michigan. the buckle of the rust belt. flint went broke a decade ago and got fixed by an emergency manager. after that flint went broke again and has another emergency manager. there s highland park, michigan, a city inside detroit that spent the whole decade of the 2000s under emergency management. heck of a lot of good that did them. the state took over the school district in highland park, too. it s been the argument of michigan state government in order to fix cities, in order to fix towns, you have to first remove the local democracy. not just state help, state supervision but completely unfettered control in one elected person s hands. it s their argument the elected officials, choices of the voters, that they get in the way. michigan officials democracy is ....

State Supervision , Control Go , Michael Stampler , City Inside Detroit , Highland Park , Rust Belt , State Government , Fix Towns , State Help , Under Emergency Management , School District ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120501:04:49:00

Year 2000. how did that decade of control go for fixing things in ecorse, michigan? there s the city of flint, michigan. the buckle of the rust belt. flint went broke a decade ago and got fixed by an emergency manager. after that flint went broke again and has another emergency manager. there s highland park, michigan, a city inside detroit that spent the whole decade of the 2000s under emergency management. heck of a lot of good that did them. the state took over the school district in highland park, too. it s been the argument of michigan state government in order to fix cities, in order to fix towns, you have to first remove the local democracy. not just state help, state supervision but completely unfettered control in one elected person s hands. it s their argument the elected officials, choices of the voters, that they get in the way. michigan officials democracy is part of the problem. get rid of democracy they say then fix the town. ....

Michael Stampler , Control Go , Rust Belt , City Inside Detroit , Under Emergency Management , School District , Highland Park , State Government , State Supervision , Fix Towns , State Help , Isn Ta Problem ,