Bill Nojay, who was for a while last year the head of Detroit's transportation department, has an illuminating article in today's Wall Street Journal about how dysfunctional Detroit has become. His article, Bill Nojay: Lessons From a Front-Row Seat for Detroit's Dysfunction, shows just how out-on-control some of these cities have become, and in particular how public service unions have abused their power to make it almost impossible to run a city.