Where It Begins?

I can't begin to know it...
but then I know it's growing strong.

*Happy post-election day, 2013. Day is done; the race is run.

During the pivotal day for Detroit, the U.S. Department of Justice was on hand to monitor the election to ensure the Voting Rights Act was upheld.
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Mike Duggan, who ran on his financial rescue of the city’s largest hospital system, beat Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon 55 percent to 45 percent with 98 percent of precincts reporting, the Detroit News reported. Both candidates are Democrats.
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Duggan, a former hospital system CEO, released a plan that calls for creating a Department of Neighborhoods to enforce code violations, reduce blight and streamline the process for opening businesses in Detroit. He favors financial incentives to move residents living on blocks with four or less homes to more populated neighborhoods and says he will seize abandoned properties from banks that have foreclosed on empty homes. A former Wayne County prosecutor, he has supported the police department's efforts to move more officers to active duty and hiring civilians for administrative duties.

Duggan campaigned on his turnaround of the Detroit Medical Center, which faced a $500 million deficit, job cuts and possible hospital shutdowns when he was appointed CEO in late 2003. He boasted eight straight years of profits while launching a popular campaign promising 29-minute maximum wait times for emergency room patients. That may have resonated with voters, who cite police and ambulance response times averaging close to an hour after calls as one of Detroit’s most crippling issues. Duggan also spearheaded the sale of the DMC to Vanguard Health Systems in 2011. It was sold to Tenet Healthcare Corp. in June.
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Napoleon often sought to paint Duggan, who moved to Detroit from nearby Livonia, Mich. to run for mayor, as a suburban carpetbagger.

In the pair’s last televised debate, Napoleon warned viewers that, "While Mike was sleeping in Livonia,” he had risen through the ranks of the Detroit Police Department to chief, before being appointed sheriff of Wayne County, where Detroit is located, in 2009.

While the city argues for the right to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in federal court, major fiscal decisions will be approved by the state-appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, who has ultimate authority over the city's budget. Still, Duggan likely won’t be off the hook if residents don’t see improvements to services. So many streetlights are out that parts of the city plunge into darkness every night. About 78,000 vacant buildings blighting the city must be renovated or torn down. So far this year, close to 300 murders have been logged.