New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on Whether Former Piston Dave Bing Can Save Detroit

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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