Four of the city’s pension trustees billed taxpayers $22,000 to fund a convention trip to Hawaii this weekend, even as the city nears bankruptcy, largely over mismanaged, underfunded pension plans.
Despite his divisive position, Minister Louis Farrakhan messages often are as powerful, eloquent and compassionate as anyone’s today.
Read the entire 30-minute speech of Louis Farrakhan speaking at a Detroit City Council meeting.
“Suppose that the 500,000 blacks in Detroit decided this this is our city, this is our home, and we are not going to let buzzards take it from us,” Farrakhan said to thundering applause.
Farrakhan is in town looking for potential buildings and properties to purchase as a way to help reignite the local economy.
Detroit mayoral candidate Tom Barrow claims three of his opponents committed campaign violations that are egregious enough to dismiss their candidacy.
Mayor Dave Bing, whose popularity has steadily declined since taking office in 2009, won’t run for re-election after all, but he has his eyes on something else.
Bing appeared to struggle when asked about his political plans during a press conference about the city’s finances today.
In a city as broke as Detroit, it’s not often that Mayor Dave Bing has good news to report.
From the street, Forest Hill Cemetery looks like an overgrown vacant lot with a collapsing fence surrounded by garbage.