“Under Michigan’s law for cities teetering on the edge of collapse, which provides broad powers to emergency managers,” Detroit Mayor Dave Bing “finds himself in a rare and somewhat perplexing position — still the mayor, but with no say on his city’s biggest choices,” the New York Times reports.
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