Warren — Mayor James Fouts is popular with residents who have re-elected three times the self-proclaimed workaholic who returns every public phone call. And his landslide victories in 2011 and 2015 prove it.
But his relationship with the City Council in Michigan’s third-largest municipality is a quagmire marked by disputes over personality, power and issues, including interpretations of the city charter and whether the council or the mayor can hire the legal counsel of their choice.
