If the governor appoints an Emergency Manager for Detroit, he will give someone the power to fire city officials, sell city assets, and break city contracts.
A month of pressure from business interests broke city leaders.
For a day, my Airbnb rental was turned into a wedding venue, which broke city laws.
Airbnb Hosts Beware Renters who sublet their apartments through Airbnb may not be aware they're breaking city ordinances.
It housed some of the hungry and frequently delinquent little orphans who ran wild through the broken city.
Anyone who accepts a fee to "promote a marriage between a man and a woman" is breaking city law.
Since the scandal broke, city politicians have been promising to spend more money on subsidies to nonprofit developers.
He's sick of manning the sports desk at the Post; he wants a chance to shape this broken city with words.
The better of the two is Broken City, a hardboiled conspiracy thriller which, give or take the odd mobile phone, could have starred Humphrey Bogart.
Afterwards, tabloid columnist Pete Hamill described New York as "a city abandoned, a city unrepresented, a city cynical, a ruined and broken city".
