Detroit’s Emergency Manager Looms as Candidates Battle for Mayor
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Detroit residents this year will elect a mayor who will begin a four-year term in the shadow of a state emergency manager with the power to reshape the deficit-plagued city.
That won’t defuse a campaign spiked with rivalries, racial rifts and the potential for the first white mayor elected in 44 years in a city that’s 82 percent black.