Kevyn Orr Hands Over Water Department to Mayor Duggan

[walkstall]

       Just what Detroit needs. 

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At a time when the water department is under attack for shutting off service, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is handing over the responsibility of running it to Mayor Mike Duggan.

The order came Tuesday. Under the order, Duggan will manage the utility and make appointments to the Board of Water Commissioners.

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http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/9988/kevyn_orr_hands_over_water_department_to_mayor_duggan?section_name=Bankruptcy#.U9h2Lmd0wzx

[quiller]

Orr is temporary. Duggan is elected. In the long run this means the Water Department finally has to answer to someone, and for the Downriver communities who must rely on that systejm for their own water supply, this will be a very good thing. After all: the old gang wasn't collecting what it was owed, and shoved costs off on those who DID pay.

More on the topic here: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140729/METRO01/307290056/Orr-gives-control-Detroit-s-water-department-mayor

[DaisyJane]

Does this mean the water will get turned back on to those who don't pay their bills?

DaisyJane     

[walkstall]

Does this mean the water will get turned back on to those who don't pay their bills?

DaisyJane     

ONLY if you vote Dem!   

[TboneAgain]

ONLY if you vote Dem!   

You just might be right! Way back in 1973 or maybe 74, I was driving up Rable Mountain Rd. in rural West Virginia. With me was my wife-to-be, and we were going to visit her paternal grandparents and extended family, most of whom lived on Rable Mtn. The road was awful, the usual steep switchback after switchback affair. Where we turned off the highway, the road started out badly-graded dirt and gravel, but then we bumped onto lovely black asphalt for a ways. Then back onto dirt/gravel, then bump up onto smooth asphalt, then down into dirt/gravel... Back and forth and back and forth all the way up that mountain. After a couple miles of this roller-coaster, I said, "What the hell is with this road? Why don't they pave it all or grade it all?"

My fiancee started laughing, and I asked what was so funny. She said, "Silly. The nice parts are where Democrats live." And she was absolutely serious.