Detroit is a place where I worked for many years as a journalist, where I absorbed the town's rich automotive, labor and civil rights history, where I sat in blues clubs and watched baseball from the upper deck of old Tiger Stadium.
It's a place that I really think of as home.
Detroit elected a new mayor this week.
He is 55-year-old Mike Duggan, a longtime county official, and later a successful CEO of the region's leading medical center.
But one might reasonably ask why someone — anyone — would want the job of mayor of Detroit.