Detroit will have a new mayor in 2014. Dave Bing does not seem able to seek another term in office. If he decides to run again, his relationship with the people of Detroit is over. He has no good will and would be easily beaten. Therefore many have engaged in the common speculation of [...]
Read more →Orders Charter (enforcer) to not Enforce the Charter Dave Bing has reportedly issued a letter instructing his corporation counsel to cease a lawsuit constructed to comply with the city charter and recent legislation from the city council. This is unethical by the mayor and possible grounds for his removal from office. This also exposes [...]
Read more →The consent agreement, also known as the Financial Stability Agreement, between the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan is undergoing a debate that should have taken place before it was signed into law. This debate today occurs on the streets of Detroit and partly in the local syndicated media and behind closed doors [...]
Read more →Is the State of Michigan a good place to raise a family? Build, grow or locate a business? Can Michigan offer advantages over other states, or even other countries, to encourage people to locate here, or discourage current residents from moving? Should someone live in Michigan? Can people prosper in Michigan? Does Michigan exhibit the best qualities as written in our countries constitution?
Read more →Michigan’s Public Act 4 of 2011 (The Emergency Manager Law) has been used to place an EM over the cites of Flint, Pontiac, Benton Harbor and Ecorse as well as the Detroit Public School district. A group called Stand up for Democracy has collected over 200,000 signatures to place the law before voters in the November 2012 election and suspend all activity under PA 4. There is a strong concern by the backers of this law that Michigan voters, both republicans and democrats would vote to repeal this law. Additionally once the signatures are turned in and certified, the law is suspended. All activity under the law must cease and the provisions within the law cannot be used until the voters vote on retaining or abolishing the law.
Read more →Brian Dickerson, columnist for the free press, wrote a column on the recent vote in Troy (Michigan) to reject federal funding and not build a transit station. The column, “In Troy, an all too familiar fear of the other” December 22, 2011. It’s a critical article against the Troy government elected persons who voted against the transit center and Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson who had nothing to do with the vote and nothing to do with the issue.
Read more →There are those who complain that the race card was played at the press conference, held by Mayor Bing on Thursday December 8, 2011. However, there is evidence of institutionalized racism being practiced nationwide. It has been reported that Mayor Coleman Alexander Young Sr. was told that after he was elected in 1973 he [...]
Read more →President Obama delivered a much needed pep talk for the country. His speech was a proposal for what he has proposed since before he took office. The tone is out of his book, the Audacity of Hope. The president proposed a joint effort to energize the economy, encourage job growth and incentivize the positive things needed for the country to compete on a global scale. What he did not advocate is the current path where wages are targeted to the lowest common average in order to make it cheaper for businesses to retain business in the United States.
Read more →Honorable Rick Snyder, Governor George W. Romney Building 111 South Capitol Avenue Lansing, Michigan 48933 Dear Governor Snyder: Your office and the office of the State Attorney General are in possession of a proposed replacement for the City of Detroit’s current charter of 1997. Hood Research makes the request that you reject the proposed charter [...]
Read more →After many months the question has not been asked. Snyder has been asked what he plans to do but that too has been allowed to have gone unanswered. Not having held elected office, Snyder does not have a record that can be examined. Absence has been the necessary scrutiny of a candidate for Governor that [...]
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