The Metro Times has given the nod to Mike Duggan for mayor of Detroit in the November election.
The weekly alternative paper writes in its endorsement:
What does Detroit need? Who can articulate the best plan leading Detroit to a rebirth that will permeate all its neighborhoods and not just the renaissance bubbles percolating around downtown and Midtown?
Who can deliver on the goods versus serving up lofty prose or divisive wedge issues that have carried the day for so many former occupants of the mayoral home on Jefferson Avenue?
The outcome of the August primary and the legal undulations that followed have left us to conclude that MIKE DUGGAN, warts and all, has the necessary skillset to take a broken Detroit and right the ship.
The endorsement noted that in the primary, Benny Napoleon that outside of his home district and its immediate surroundings, Napoleon lost every single neighborhood in the city’s 140-square-miles. -- A.L.
