Nearly two months into his tenure as Detroit mayor, Mike Duggan outlined a plan for adding jobs and removing abandoned buildings in the bankrupt city during his first state of the city address yesterday, Reuters reported today. Duggan, seeking to find an agenda of his own while operating in the shadow of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, is doing what he can with the bankrupt city's limited resources to make headway on some of its most visible problems: decreasing urban blight and creating safe neighborhoods. The new mayor traced the city's problems to jobs, outlining plans to attract and grow more businesses and get people to work through an improved and expanded bus service or by making car ownership less expensive through city-sponsored auto insurance.
