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, […]
By Steve Neavling The annual Million Man March may land in the Motor City. Civil-rights leaders officially made their case Monday as it vies to beat out other cities to host the next march, which could draw hundreds of thousands of people to Detroit. Detroit City Council enthusiastically backed the effort today. Originally held in […]
By Steve Neavling Detroit City Council thought it had effectively banned unsupervised children today from the annual 2012 Detroit Target Fireworks. But a city attorney quickly ended the curfew ordinance, calling it “an extreme restriction on rights” that would therefore need approval from two-thirds of the council. The nine-member board could only mustered five votes. […]
By Steve Neavling You’ve already heard Mayor Dave Bing pledge to cancel the Thanksgiving Parade and next year’s fireworks unless someone provides outside funding. Now the mayor wants to hear from you. “As we transform Detroit, what are some ways to help pay for city events that we can no longer afford?buy diflucan online https://www.epsa-online.org/wp-content/languages/new/prescription/diflucan.html […]
By Steve Neavling The Detroit News seems obsessed with the idea of a white mayor running the city. A month after conservative columnist Nolan Finley suggested the time may be ripe to elect a white mayor, the News returns today with a front page headline, “Can white mayoral candidate win in Detroit?“ Never mind that no […]
By Steve Neavling When state Rep. Lisa Peterson turned her vagina into a powerful metaphor for the attack on women’s rights last week, the West Bloomfield Democrat did Michigan a favor. She drew attention to one of the country’s most sweeping anti-abortion bills. Conservative lawmakers are launching an egregious assault on reproductive health care with […]
By Steve Neavling There’s no way like promoting God than some good-old fashion bigotry. That’s what a group of Christian missionary groups did this weekend when they taunted Arab Americans with a pig’s head and signs trumpeting hatred at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn, the Free Press reports. Yea, I’m sure Jesus is down with […]
By Steve Neavling Vagina. Yep, I said it. Vagina. Offended? House Republicans were when state Rep.buy doxycycline online https://healingtohappy.com/wp-content/languages/new/over/doxycycline.html no prescription Lisa Brown referenced her anatomy on the floor today, telling conservatives that a sweeping anti-abortion bill is an intrusion on women’s rights. “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, […]
By Steve Neavling The rhetoric-laced drama unfolding over who controls Detroit’s finances took a big twist today when a judge quickly dismissed a lawsuit by the city’s attorney that challenged the state’s financial intervention. Now city and state officials can get back to fixing a budget that has run a deficit every year for more […]
By Steve Neavling The Detroit Free Press plans to sizably reduce its staff of reporters, and one of its top editors is leaving, Editor and Publisher Paul Anger told trepidation newspaper employees today. Anger said the cuts “won’t be tiny,” according to three reporters and an editor who were at the meeting. Another blow to […]