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War is hell! Or at least  trying to get to a war is. I left Detroit Thursday night at 10:00pm for Amsterdam. I had a brief layover there (no John Sinclair sightings at Schippol),  and I caught a flight into Dubai. The place is beautiful from the sky at night. It’s known as the...
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U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke, a Detroit Democrat, is mentioned in an editorial in The Nation magazine regarding the student debt crisis. Clarke has introduced a bill calling for forgiving of “up to $45,520 in student debt after a borrower makes ten years of payments at 10 percent of income.” As the lefty magazine reports,...
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I just finished a conference call with The US State Department in preparation of my departure to Afghanistan next Thursday evening. They informed me of some of the type of programs I can expect to be doing while I am in country. It looks like I will visit a couple of universities, some ACCESS...
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When Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen correctly pointed out last week that Ann Romney wasn’t exactly well qualified to be bolstering Mitt’s approval rating among women by speaking to the economic struggles they face, reaction from the Romney campaign was swift and the right-wing echo chamber went wild. All because Rosen said Ann Romney had...
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Metro Times took seven awards, two of them for first place, plus two honorable mentions in the annual awards competition of the Detroit Chapter Society of Professional Journalists announced Wednesday night. The awards were in the Class A print competition for daily papers of 100,000 circulation or more plus magazines and alternative-style weeklies of...
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Following up an a similar event held last December, an Occupy Detroit teach-in will be held at Wayne State University.  Thursday, April 19. The event kicks off with a 12:30 p.m. screening of the doc Inside Job. Afterward, University of Michigan philosopher and economist Frank Thompson will lead a discussion of subjects examined in...
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With the Detroit City Council’s 5-4 approval of a “financial stability agreement” with the state on Wednesday, Gov. Rick Snyder told reporters today that it is time to focus on the positive aspects of the deal. Flanked by state Treasurer Andy Dillon and Harvey Hollins III, director of the state’s Office of Urban and...
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Detroiters edged closer Monday to a vote on legalizing marijuana use. The Michigan Court of Appeals denied the City of Detroit’s motion to reconsider its previous ruling requiring a local legalization measure be placed on the ballot. The decision comes two years after the Coalition for a Safer Detroit, headed by pot-activist Tim Beck,...
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Karen Plants, a former Wayne County assistant prosecutor, has been disbarred for the role she played in allowing a jury to hear perjured testimony in a 2005 cocaine trafficking case. Plants originally had her license to practice law suspended for two years by the Attorney Discipline Board following her conviction last year in Wayne...
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With completion of the controversial Gateway Project now in the hands of the Michigan Department of Transportation, there is no longer any reason to hold Manuel “Matty” Moroun and other officials of the Detroit International Bridge Co. in contempt of court,  Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Prentis Edwards ruled today. But that doesn’t mean...
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