By Steve Neavling Council President Charles Pugh seems genuinely bewildered by the reaction to his whopping 48-minute-long weight loss video that shows him bare-chested and flexing as the city nears bankruptcy. Pugh was particularly upset by a Detroit News column that labeled his video “abs-urd,” so he encouraged his thousands of Facebook friends to tell the author, Laura Berman, […]
By Steve Neavling Now it’s getting real. State oversight and decades of mismanagement have culminated in the layoffs of 165 Detroit firefighters at a time when blazes are tearing through neighborhoods at rates unseen for years. Mayor Dave Bing made the announcement today as part of an unprecedented series of cuts in an effort to […]
By Steve Neavling Guess what, Michigan? You know how you force judges to require juveniles convicted of murder to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole? You can’t do that. The Supreme Court delivered the ruling today in a growingly rare victory for compassion and common sense.buy lipitor generic https://rxnoprescriptionrxbuyonline.com/lipitor.html over […]
By Steve Neavling Good leaders find common ground in tough times. Then there’s Council President Charles Pugh, whose taste for drama and showmanship unnecessarily ended a public meeting in which Mayor Dave Bing was to make an urgent plea this morning. Instead of allowing the mayor to speak at the beginning of the meeting to […]
More than 85 tweets, a golf outing and cocktails. It was a busy day for Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson on Tuesday. The bubbly, wise-cracking Republican was participating in the Oakland County Executive Golf Outing, a fundraiser for business development. What most impressed us wasn’t his eloquent stroke but his 85 tweets during one […]
It was an odd, glorious scene. More than 1,000 skateboarders from around the globe converged Thursday on the hulking, abandoned housing projects across I-75 from Ford Field in Detroit as part of the international “Go Skate Day.” Under a scorching sun, skateboarders blanketed the cracked tennis courts, sidewalks and parking lots of the Brewster-Douglass projects […]
By Steve Neavling Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Republican trying to unseat Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, is hoping you have a bad memory.buy lexapro online https://blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/new/us/lexapro.html no prescription Hoekstra released a radio ad this week accusing the Obama administration of leaking classified national security information, calling the unknown leakers “amateurs” and “traitors.” Not long […]
By Steve Neavling Don’t believe skateboarding is making a comeback? Wait until thousands of skateboarders from around the world zip through the streets and sidewalks of Detroit on Thursday as part of international “Go Skate Day.” The event, Wild in the Streets, encourages skateboarders to converge on Detroit’s Hart Plaza at noon. For updates, check […]
Seriously? In the midst of a state takeover, massive service reductions and impending bankruptcy, Council President Charles Pugh’s obsession with his new chiseled chest is a peculiar sight. Today the former TV reporter posted two shirtless photos – one showing his squeamishly oversized belly from a year ago and the other revealing his current six-pack abs […]
By Steve Neavling Eddie Brown plopped down on a cracked curb and flicked a thick sheen of sweat from his forehead. “It’s a hot one,” he told me yesterday at sunset, along a quiet, sweltering stretch of Woodward between Midtown and downtown. In the same spot 69 years ago today, under the same scorching sun, […]