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3. Good question, actually...

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 26, 2015, 05:49 AM

Feb 2015

... I thought Detroit had a state-appointed city manager now. They may have a Mayor, but he's probably only a token Mayor with little or no power.

Besides, the Mayor didn't cause all that poverty. Big business did that over the last 30 or so years.

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