Detroit Free Press and Deadline Detroit quoted Terry Cooper of the USC Price School on whether it is unusual for a city government to raise funds for a nonprofit. Cooper, the USC professor, said the public deserves to know more about the city’s support of Make Your Date. “Are we being fair to other nonprofits Read more…
Perhaps no major city in the United States has faced more difficult economic challenges in recent years than Detroit. On Oct. 15, the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Athenian Society featured a conversation with Kevyn Orr, the man who led the revival of Read more…
View more photos of the event here. The Leading from the West speaker series, is a platform that offers insight into effective governance through conversations with leaders that have guided states, regions, and cities through often treacherous policy waters and have demonstrated administration skills, nimble politics, and inspiring leadership to Read more…
by Donnajean Ward I’ve written a lot about Detroit these past few months. It’s my home town so almost every media mention gets my click and it seems like everyone from Jamie Dimon to National Geographic has weighed in on its rise, its fall, its hipsterization… On Thursday, October 15 Read more…
by Robyn Burleson On October 15, the Price community welcomes Kevyn Orr to campus as part of the Leading from the West speaker series, in partnership with the USC Price Athenian Society’s Dean’s Speaker Series. A litigator with over three decades of experience, Orr served as the Emergency Manager of the Read more…
by Donnajean Ward In May of this year, I accompanied a group of USC Price undergraduates to Detroit for a week to not only visit and view the oft-discussed decline and nascent revitalization of the city but to actually participate in moving forward a set of existing projects by partnering Read more…
by Donnajean Ward Detroit is famous for a lot of things and more and more the city is becoming known for urban farming. During our week-long visit as part of the Price School’s LEAP Detroit Lab, we saw the range of urban farming and gardening first hand. Lafayette Greens was just Read more…
by Donnajean Ward Last month, from May 17-23, 2015, I was a member of a team taking a group of 15 undergraduates from USC Price to the City of Detroit as part of academic lab focused on social, environmental, and urban issues. The program , Learning to Excel Academically and Professionally Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback After a year in which stories about cities facing bankruptcy from Detroit to San Bernadino were widely reported, it’s no secret that the fiscal health of many local governments is still on shaky ground. According to Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Tom Kozlik, the financial outlook for U.S. local Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback The judge in Detroit’s bankruptcy case is already having a big impact on how other cities on the brink of bankruptcy deal with employee public pensions. According to a ruling by Judge Steven Rhodes last week, Detroit’s public pensions will not protected by state laws during bankruptcy proceedings, a Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback In July, the city of Detroit found itself in trouble again, attracting the headlines that have earned it an ugly reputation for urban and social dysfunction. After he was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Kevyn D. Orr, the city’s non elected emergency manager, decided to file for Chapter Read more…
Raphael Bostic penned an opinion piece for The Orange County Register on how Detroit is an example of good governance, perhaps particularly as the city’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing gets under way in federal court. After years of financial mismanagement, the city is making strides in other important fields like Read more…
by Raphael Bostic Original posting on Forbes.com – 6/21/2013 @ 4:44PM It’s not super often that Detroit is lifted up as an example of good governance. The city has been wracked with decades of stagnation, has had a series of mayors parade from city hall to jail, and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder recently Read more…