As Kilpatrick stepped to the podium wearing the feds finest khaki prison attire, one could hear a pin drop on the carpeted courtroom floor.
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Washington does Detroit debt
How did Detroit get into a debt crisis? You’ve been watching a replay in Washington, DC the last month.
How to put budget impasses behind us
The long-term solution to all this uncertainty is a return of the federal government to its primary goal-the protection of life, liberty, and property.
Serve your constituents? Serve the country
Recently-elected members of Congress only came to be reelected.
#utellthestory of Detroit
Forget 60 Minutes. Without a doubt, there are problems here, but the key is that things can be fixed.
Obamacare exchange, Week 3: Still can't sign up
This week, the security questions are finally there, but I then stall at the next page . . .
Detroit: Completely ineffective mayor strangely troubled his team has been sidelined
After the utter failure of the mayor, the administration and the City Council to even approach competence in fiscal management, emergency manager Kevyn Orr saw little point in keeping any of Bing’s team in charge.
Richard Nixon, Obama's soulmate
Downie: ‘The administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration.’