There are really two schools of the thought on Detroit’s fiscal problems.
The first group says the problem is really bad and requires some level of outside intervention from state officials to help clean up the books. The second group believes local control of city finances is sacrosanct, so democratically-elected Detroit officials should be allowed to sort of the city's problems on their own.
Today, the local control people are taking the state intervention people to a Mason courtroom so we can find out if the consent agreement, approved by a duly-elected Detroit mayor and a majority of the duly-elected Detroit City Council, meets the approval of an Ingham County judge originally appointed to the bench by a white, west Michigan Republican governor.
Because local control!
Lewis Carroll just called. He said this mess is just too weird. – JTW
