Detroit Seen as Model in Ohio City Facing Collapse: Muni Credit
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The council president in East Cleveland said if she had her way, the city would follow Detroit’s path and become Ohio’s first municipality to file for bankruptcy to help solve its fiscal woes.
State Auditor Dave Yost said the suburb of 17,500, where oil baron John D. Rockefeller once had a summer estate, is insolvent. The community lacks a working ladder truck in its fire department, had its mobile phones shut off and faces $1.7 million in unpaid bills.