Sky News: March 26, 2013
Chamber president and CEO Sandy Baruah spoke with Jeff Randall of London’s Sky News about the fiscal state of Detroit. Original air date: March 25, 2013.
Continue ReadingCategory Archives: News & Media: News Coverage
Chamber President and CEO Sandy Baruah on NBC’s Education Nation
NBC: March 22, 2013
Chamber president and CEO Sandy Baruah was a panelist on NBC’s Education Nation talking about the education system in Detroit.
Continue ReadingChamber endorses Medicaid expansion
The Detroit News: March 21, 2013
The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Medicaid expansion proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder, despite opposition by many Republicans. The chamber’s Executive Board voted to back the expansion Wednesday, the same day a House appropriations subcommittee advanced a community health budget bill that did not include the $1.3 billion in federal money to fully fund the program.
Continue ReadingChamber event spotlights health care reform, insurance exchange, Medicaid expansion
Crain’s Detroit Business: March 21, 2013
Chris Priest, project manager of MIHealth Marketplace, Michigan’s health insurance exchange, made a strong case today for the state Legislature to approve separate bills that would authorize spending of $31 million in federal grant money to help build the exchange and to expand Medicaid to more than 500,000 uninsured residents.
Continue ReadingLeaders aim to turn southeast Michigan into ‘health care destination’
The Detroit News: March 21, 2013
Falak Khattak’s face revealed she was weary from pain and 24 hours of travel as she was prepped for surgery at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Wednesday, but her eyes were hopeful. The Pakistani mother of six had flown 7,000 miles from her home in Islamabad to start treatment with Dr. Kenneth Peters, chief of urology and director of Beaumont’s Women’s Urology Center.
Continue Reading‘Michigan State has always been in Detroit’
Lansing State Journal: March 21, 2013
The ties that bind Michigan State’s basketball team to Detroit are long and deep. Greg Kelser. Steve Smith. Shawn Respert. Kalin Lucas. Some of the Spartans’ best players have come from the Motor City. “We feel like Detroit IS Michigan State and Michigan State IS Detroit,” junior guard Keith Appling said.
Continue ReadingSandy Baruah Talks About Detroit – WWJ AM 950
WWJ AM 950: March 14, 2013
Detroit Regional Chamber president and CEO Sandy Baruah spoke with WWJ 950 about the city of Detroit. Original air date: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Continue ReadingSaving Detroit: New Manager Targets ‘Greatest Turnaround’ in U.S. History
The Christian Science Monitor: March 14, 2013
The man slated to guide Detroit to fiscal solvency in the largest state takeover of a city in United States history described his new job Thursday as “the Olympics of restructuring.” That could be an understatement. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has stepped in to appoint Kevyn Orr, a restructuring specialist who represented Chrysler during its 2009 bankruptcy, as emergency financial manager for the Motor City.
Continue ReadingBeyond Detroit, City Takeover May Benefit Michigan Governor
Reuters.com: March 14, 2013
Rick Snyder’s decision to put Detroit in the hands of an emergency financial manager on Thursday may not go down well in the heavily Democratic Motor City, but the Republican governor has the chance to go down in Michigan history as the man who saved Detroit….
Continue ReadingDetroit: As the Governor Moves to Take Control, Residents Wonder What’s Next
Time.com: March 6, 2013
Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s announcement Friday was a long time in coming: at the recommendation of a state financial review board that had been looking into the city’s finances since December, Snyder officially announced at a televised forum in Detroit that the city was officially in a state of financial emergency.
Continue Reading
