Kevyn Orr

DETROIT (AP) — Public lighting, clearing blighted structures and other once-faltering services already have improved despite Detroit’s dive into bankruptcy, emergency manager Kevyn Orr told The Associated Press. Orr said during Thursday’s interview that 26,000 lights have been added or fixed, police are responding more quickly to 911 calls and efforts to tear down vacant […]

I’m angered that Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager, would approve the city’s plans to spend $400 million to build a new hockey arena when the city is broke and thousands of city workers are worried about receiving their hard-earned pensions. It’s a tragedy that Orr – and Detroit’s city administrators – are gambling with the […]

DETROIT (AP) — A bankruptcy lawyer and turnaround expert tasked with reviving Detroit’s beleaguered finances could be greeted by a crowd of protesters as he arrives at work Monday, then plans to spend his first day meeting with some city officials who for months fought against creating his job at all. Kevyn Orr is under […]

DETROIT (AP) — The turnaround expert who represented Chrysler during its successful restructuring is taking on one of the toughest fiscal tasks anywhere in the country: Fixing Detroit. Kevyn Orr, hired Thursday as Detroit’s emergency manager, brings expertise from his work at one of the world’s largest law firms plus the threat of Chapter 9 […]