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Dave Bing's Last-Second Shot

By Shikha Dalmia On Tuesday, voters in Detroit trudged to the polls and re-elected 65-year-old Mayor Dave Bing, giving him five new city council members to accomplish a mission impossible: bring Michigan's biggest city back from near death. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

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