Michigan's elected leaders are notorious for sugar-coating the realities of doing more with less, Brian Dickerson writes in the Free Press.
"So props to Mayor Dave Bing and the Detroit Works project he has championed for telling Detroiters the truth about their limited options for redeeming Michigan's largest city -- and reminding them how quickly those options will narrow if Detroit's elected leaders fail to seize the moment.
"Planners who endeavor to bend the future to their vision are always criticized for playing God, or, what is worse in some circles, distorting the free market. But the Detroit Future City report is less about picking winners and losers than about conjuring a city that, unlike today's Detroit, affords a reasonable quality of life to the greatest possible number of residents."
