Archive: Leadership Voices

What About Atlantic City?
Strong state oversight is helping the New Jersey gambling town stay out of bankruptcy court despite a 64 percent...
By Sandra Svoboda in Kevyn Orr, Other Municipalities August 26, 2015
Detroit Struggling to Create Jobs Outside of Downtown
Detroit has a host of well-documented problems – poverty, crime, street lights, mass transit – that hamper its recovery....
By The Center for Michigan in Bridge Magazine, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, DJC, Feature August 10, 2015
Post-Bankruptcy City Hall: Detroit’s Chief of Staff on Key Issues
Former television reporter Alexis Wiley joined Mayor Mike Duggan's administration shortly after he took office in the midst of...
By Sandra Svoboda in Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit Today, Neighborhoods August 4, 2015
Parks in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit
The Plan of Adjustment provided $10 million for Detroit's parks, writes Bridge Magazine's Bill McGraw, which means improvements at...
By The Center for Michigan in Bridge Magazine, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Feature, Neighborhoods July 14, 2015
Orr Opines: Former EM urges finalization of water deal
Writing in The Detroit News, Detroit’s former emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, is heralding the mediation process used in the...
By Sandra Svoboda in Bankruptcy Court, DWSD, Kevyn Orr June 8, 2015
What’s Happening with the Water Deal?
The chief mediator in Detroit’s bankruptcy case says he’s hoping that the city of Detroit and counties of Wayne,...
By Sandra Svoboda in Bankruptcy Court, DWSD, Mackinac Policy Conference May 29, 2015
Ford Foundation Returns to Hometown…at least for one meeting
With $125 million in the "grand bargain," the Ford Foundation has an investment in the city. Now, for the...
By Sandra Svoboda in Mackinac Policy Conference, Pensions May 29, 2015
Detroit Then and Now: The Difference a Year Makes at the Mackinac Policy Conference
The famed Mackinac Policy Conference is put on by the Detroit Regional Chamber, so it’s not surprising the city...
By Sandra Svoboda in Feature, Mackinac Policy Conference May 28, 2015
Bankruptcy’s Big Three: Two judges and a (former) emergency manager walk into a lunch…
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes and Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen appeared together to receive...
By Sandra Svoboda in Bankruptcy Court, DIA, Feature, Kevyn Orr, WDET May 18, 2015
Returning to Jones Day: Orr to head back to his previous firm, leave Atlantic City
Just as many Detroit bankruptcy watchers predicted, former Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr says he will head back to the...
By Sandra Svoboda in From Lansing, Kevyn Orr April 24, 2015
Atlantic City’s EM Report: Recommends cuts and layoffs, not Chapter 9
Like Detroit, the casino town on the Jersey Shore faces declining revenues, retiree obligations and other expenses it can’t...
By Sandra Svoboda in Kevyn Orr, National attention, Other Municipalities March 25, 2015
Catching Up: Some Detroit bankruptcy tidbits of the last week
The "grand bargain" doodle will be on display on the DIA. The feds report on poor management of grants...
By Sandra Svoboda in DIA, Kevyn Orr, Neighborhoods March 25, 2015