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Bankruptcy judge moves to privatize Detroit public lighting system - World Socialist Web Site

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The plans by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to privatize the city’s lighting system moved ahead last week when the federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings approved the sale of hundreds of millions in bonds.

The plan, announced by Orr in June, aims to reduce the lighting system in Detroit from 88,000 streetlight fixtures down to 46,000, and will see the 120-year-old Detroit Public Lighting Department closed down and its operations taken over by utility giant DTE Energy.

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The Detroit bankruptcy trial - World Socialist Web Site

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The Detroit bankruptcy trial
14 November 2013

For more than two weeks, public attention in Detroit was focused on the courtroom of US Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, where the testimony of dozens of witnesses, including Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, concluded late last week. Rhodes is expected to rule shortly on whether Detroit can continue with the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.

Behind the regalia of the federal court and its façade of impartial justice, what has been discussed is plain and simple: theft on a monumental scale.

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