page_title: 2016 in Michigan
section_title: Mayors of major cities
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in Michigan / Office holders / Mayors of major cities
caption_attribution_description: Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan, 2013.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2016 in Michigan.
  The Detroit Free Press and Lansing State Journal both published year-end recaps of the year's top news stories. The only story to appear on both lists was Donald Trump's narrow electoral victory in Michigan by 11,000 votes. Other top stories included:
  Criminal charges against four city officials in the Flint water crisis;
  The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal involving former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar;
  The 2016 Kalamazoo shootings in which an Uber driver killed 12 persons;
  A massacre in which Gregory Green of Dearborn Heights killed his four children and step-children and tortured his wife;
  A federal criminal investigation into Detroit's blight demolition program;
  Investments by Detroit's Big Three in self-driving automobiles;
  The Detroit Pistons' return to Detroit and the opening of Little Caesars Arena;
  Conviction of Detroit TV anchor and city council president Charles Pugh for having sex with a minor;
  Death of 12 persons in a Flint outbreak of Legionnaire's disease;
  A corruption scandal involving officials in Macomb County and trash giant Rizzo Environmental Services.
context_section_description: Mayor of Detroit: Mike Duggan (Democrat)
  Mayor of Grand Rapids: George Heartwell
  Mayor of Warren, Michigan: James R. Fouts
  Mayor of Ann Arbor: Christopher Taylor (Democrat)
  Mayor of Lansing: Virgil Bernero
  Mayor of Flint: Dayne Walling/Karen Weaver
caption: Mike Duggan
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