November 13, 2009
On November 3, voters in Detroit trudged
to the polls and re-elected 65-year-old Mayor Dave Bing, giving
him five new city council members to accomplish a mission
impossible: bring Michigan's biggest city back from near death.
But as Shikha Dalmia writes, there's no clear prescription that
will work, and Detroit's recalcitrant public-employee unions will
resist the fiscal therapy that will necessarily be a part of any
recovery.
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