Hood Research Analysis of the 2013 City of Detroit – Candidates & Election Process Krystal Crittendon – Exploring a Possible Entry as a Candidate Summary: Crittendon should not run for a Detroit political office at this time. She should not now be considered as a candidate by the electorate of the city of Detroit. First [...]
Read more →What are the facts, regarding the state of Michigan desiring to control the city island park, Belle Isle? This topic centers on money. The city of Detroit, and Mayor Bing, has been proclaiming that there isn’t enough money to maintain the park, Belle Isle. The state of Michigan is promising to use state money for [...]
Read more →The state of Michigan is pushing the Detroit City Council to approve a lease for the city park, Belle Isle. This lease, supported by Mayor Dave Bing, would transfer control of the island to the state for a period of 30 years. During this time the city would maintain ownership of the island but not [...]
Read more →The parent company for Hantz Farms, The Hantz Group, a company not based in Detroit, reportedly has made profits within the financial services industry profiting from the very items that nearly bankrupt the country over the past four years. This makes sense then for the development proposal within the city of Detroit that does not [...]
Read more →The Michigan Republican Party is pushing Right to Work legislation. Multiple reports and individuals in the labor organizations have said that republican Governor Rick Snyder had said that he did not support this type of legislation or economic policy. This is now being reported as a change of mind, or an about face, by the [...]
Read more →The Detroit City Council is considering selling over a thousand of individual residential lots to a suburban Detroit company named Hantz Group Inc. These residential lots are located on the east side of the city adjacent to the Indian Village neighborhood potentially some of the most valuable residential lots in the city. The media, some politicians on city council and some community advocates who are supportive of this sale are claiming that this is a proposal for urban farming and that the product will be trees. However this is not true. This is a no-bid contract to sell city owned land. This is pure land speculation and preferential treatment.
Read more →Recently a tape was released, or discovered, by famed reporter Bob Woodward and the Washington Post. On this tape a person who worked or the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes is attempting to recruit the general to run for president against President Obama. This meeting occurred shortly before Patraeus was appointed to run the [...]
Read more →How many articles per week are needed to sell a paper and how many of those articles should focus on problems in Detroit? Rochelle Riley, (writer for the freep.com) has written another one of her pointless columns that is presented as news by the media in and around Detroit. Her column presents a recurring [...]
Read more →Still present and with the possibility of a vote by the Detroit City Council is a proposed contract with the law firm Miller-Canfield. This contract is being proposed by Mayor Dave Bing because, as he states, he can no longer trust the city corporate counsel who is mandated to represent the city and all matters [...]
Read more →Not the Kilpatrick Trial, But the Bing and Snyder Administration Politics in Detroit is dirtier than ever and the various special interests are breaking all the rules. Double standards have become the new standard and the belief where the ends justify the means is alive and strong within the state of Michigan. Mayor Bing [...]
Read more →An article published by Salon.com and written by Stephen Gray, “Can the black middle class survive” is Gray’s somewhat self examination of race and his experiences at Time Magazine as well as a very brief description of his living in Detroit and Washington D. C. Gray asks, but does not answer, a very good question. [...]
Read more →In life the phrase, the only thing to fear is fear itself applies to any situation. It seems that Michigan politics dictate that the only partisan politics that exists are the politics that deprive Detroiters of our rights. Why do plans and ideals from Republicans, the so called conservatives, seem to prosper in Michigan when [...]
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