Press conferences and news updates have given us minute-by-minute coverage of Kevyn Orr's appointment as Detroit emergency manager by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder today.
Orr's repeated assurance that he will "look at the data" before moving forward may be part of his approach, but what does that mean?
Municipal finances and emergency manager laws are being used frequently by Orr, Snyder and Bing.
To outline and define these terms and their implications, Michigan Radio's Cynthia Canty spoke with Michigan State University professor of Economics Eric Scoresone.
Scoresone is an expert in the state's emergency manager laws as well as municipal finances within the state of Michigan.
Listen to the full interview above.
