The Detroit mayor voters will elect Tuesday will be judged on how his or her vision meets this moment of reckoning in the city.

Success will rest on the team the incoming mayor assembles. It should be clearly focused on alleviating the problems many residents face in accessing city services.

City Hall has been a monument to bureaucracy, Frustrated residents show up at outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan’s charter-mandated community meetings to complain about the lack of effective response from members of his administration when they call for help. In some cases, the residents will call out the names of specific members of the mayor’s team during the public forums.

Bureaucratic red tape in Detroit didn't start with Duggan. But it should not continue under a new administration.

While a number of

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