Tag Archive: Emergency Financial Manager

An Update on the Financial Stability Agreement

This past April, the City of Detroit and the Michigan Department of Treasury entered into a Financial Stability Agreement (sometimes called a “consent decree”), creating a Financial Advisory Board — an independent, appointed… Read More

Political Sandtrap: Critical Moment interviews Benton Harbor Activist Rev. Edward Pinkney about the Occupy the PGA protests

by Dave Sands The golfers, caddies and spectators attending the 73rd Senior PGA tour in Benton Harbor found themselves getting more attention than usual from the non-golf crowd. The tournament area was quickly… Read More

Emergency Managers get Taken to Court: An Update On The Case Against Public Act 4

by Paul Abowd While citizens groups collect signatures to put the Emergency Manager law up for referendum, the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice has rooted its months-long legal challenge in… Read More

The Takeover of Detroit

By William Copeland Reprinted with permission from The Dominion The NBC show “Parks and Recreation” features a relatively benign and good-natured Emergency Management Team that motivates city workers to creatively problem-solve and think-outside-the-box… Read More

Detroit Public Schools: No News is Bad News

by Paul Abowd Throughout the last decade of upheaval in the Detroit Public Schools, various state-appointed managers of the district have reminded us it could be worse. And so Detroiters heard from Robert… Read More

Detroit: The Epicenter of the Struggle for Public Education

by Elena Herrada Representative                                            District 2, Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools has been under an Emergency Financial Manager since 2009 when then-Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm hired Robert Bobb to balance the books.… Read More

New Report on Robert Bobb and Detroit Schools

Read this revealing report on Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb. The 28-page document from Detroit activist Russ Bellant comes not a moment too soon, as the Michigan legislature considers bills… Read More