Detroit Emergency Manager

This week in Michigan politics, Christina Shockley and Jack Lessenberry discuss what's ahead for Kevyn Orr, the soon to be emergency manager for Detroit.…

The following is a summary of the above audio. To hear the full interview, click above.It's been five days since Governor Snyder presented Kevyn Orr as…

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Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager in waiting, got a surprise media baptism. Someone discovered that he had a couple unpaid liens against his Maryland…

The path of emergency management in Detroit is packed with political peril and promise (we decided to be quite alliterative this week). As Joe Biden once…

It’s official: Detroit has an emergency manager.His name is Kevyn Orr. And it’s fair to say that he charmed even some skeptical observers when he was…

Today's biggest headline comes from Detroit as Governor Rick Snyder appointed the city's emergency manager. Earlier, Michigan Radio closely followed the…

We talked throughout today's Stateside about what an emergency manager might do when they first come to Detroit.Daniel Howes, business columnist at the…

Press conferences and news updates have given us minute-by-minute coverage of Kevyn Orr's appointment as Detroit emergency manager by Michigan Governor…

Today marks a historic decision.Governor Rick Snyder announced the appointment of an emergency manager for the city of Detroit.On today's show, we looked…