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<nyt_text> DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing made new budget recommendations to the City Council on Friday, a gloomy ritual that laid out another austere spending plan for this financially distraught city. Saunteel Jenkins, a member of Detroit’s City Council. As usual, the $1 billion budget will go through a review process by council members in the coming weeks. There will be debate, ... Read More »

By Patrick Holliday | www.stonesdetroit.com As human beings there is an inherent need built into us all to help one another. Our first instinct when we see our fellow man in need is to give them help. We don’t question the risks to our own lives when someone else’s life is in danger, its not programmed into us that way. We aren’t born to hate or ... Read More »

Opinion Columnists NOLAN FINLEY The kumbaya approach to saving Detroit has failed. Credit Gov. Rick Snyder for trying to give elected leaders a voice in implementing the carefully crafted strategy for keeping the city from plunging over its own fiscal cliff. But a majority of those officials are either puppets of the public employee unions, outright dolts, or both. I’m talking ... Read More »

By: Terri Garza-Makowski – Stones Detroit  Contributor     Who’s New to Da Hood is a feature segment that will introduce people who are choosing to move to Detroit. Welcome Jason Michael Voss. Jason recently purchased a home in Detroit. Currently a student at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, Jason graduated and received his bachelors in Communication & Business ... Read More »

BY THE DETROIT NEWS Detroit — The City Council this morning voted to override Gov. Rick Snyder’s objections to a series of city charter revisions, paving the way for four measures to go before Detroit voters in November. The council this week sent four proposed changes to the state for approval with the intent of placing them before city voters in November. ... Read More »

    $28M will go to trustee without Detroit’s top lawyer’s signature   By Ronnie Dahl       Credit: WJBK | myFOXDetroit.com   The City of Detroit is struggling to avoid a financial disaster and the city’s top lawyer, Krystal Crittendon, is once again front and center.  Her signature is needed on bond refinancing paperwork.  Without it, State of ... Read More »

Bing’s statement at news conference: “It is always unfortunate when we allow a small group of individuals with alternative agendas to present themselves as representative of honest public opinion. I think our council and its leadership must be more responsible and respectful to the office of the mayor and to the citizens of Detroit. They have turned this into a ... Read More »

Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh and most of the nine council members aren’t backing down from the state’s threat to withhold money unless the city drops its challenge to the consent agreement. The standoff means Detroit’s ability to pay its bills after this week is up in the air. On Monday, Pugh and other council members stood behind city ... Read More »

Detroit — The job is daunting and enormous: Guide an impoverished city on the brink of bankruptcy out from under state oversight. Lure back a fleeing populace. Rein in violent crime making headlines across the nation. Perhaps surprisingly, the vexing problems facing Detroit haven’t deterred growing chatter about who might run for mayor in 2013. Names of potential candidates continue to ... Read More »

  A coalition of citizens and community groups is pushing Detroit City Council to make use of a recently amended Michigan law to charge residents for a private security force. MLive reports the coalition’s plan would allow residents from any neighborhood in the city to form a special district and charge homeowners $50 to $100 fee for private security services. A section ... Read More »

Several City Council members, wary that none of the appointees so far to the board that will oversee Detroit’s troubled finances lives inside the city, said Monday that residency will weigh strongly as they consider candidates for the council’s two picks on the oversight panel. On Monday, the council interviewed Gail Sparks Pitts of West Bloomfield, controller of Oakland Community College; W. ... Read More »