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 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 →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 →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 [...]
Read more →The consent decree offered by Andy Dillon, state treasurer, and supported by Governor Rick Snyder is an extreme and poor method of governing. The governor and Dillon have announced this decree ahead of their own financial review board. They have circumvented their own process and in doing so have portrayed Mayor Bing as a victim. [...]
Read more →On April first of 2012, Detroit corporation counsel Krystal Crittendon signed an opinion regarding the then drafted of the consent agreement that was requested of her office by the Detroit City Council. In the agreement on page ten, the last paragraph, she states “Although the city may enter into the proposed Agreement, the city council [...]
Read more →Michigan August 8, 2012 Michigan Public Act 4(PA4), the unconstitutional dictator government law is officially suspended. The Michigan Board of State Canvassers approved a vote on the law for the state’s November ballot. All persons appointed under this law are now out of a job until at least November when the voters can decide whether [...]
Read more →Do you live in Detroit? The reverend Jerome Warfield wants to raise your taxes. Warfield is a Detroit police commissioner who is using the horrific occurrences of gun violence in an attempt to persuade public opinion. A man of God using fear tactics against the average citizen. Does he conduct his church business in this [...]
Read more →Detroit has long endured what other communities have never faced, government continuing to chip away at the quality of life and potential for improvement for Detroit. A growing number of city assets and institutions have been taken away, or what some would say given away over the past twenty years. Instead of working to make [...]
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