Council approves tweaked plan to make Belle Isle a state park
Approval of the plan prompted outrage in the small audience as security removed some shouting residents.
Get it while you can: Scavenging the remains of Detroit
This isn’t the 1967 riots. There’s no smoke or soot billowing into the air, but Detroit is still being looted by desperate people.
Big council changes: Jenkins is president; Cockrel may resign
Ken Cockrel Jr. may become the fourth councilman to resign in the past two months.
No new leadership for council after Pugh disappears – for now
“I don’t feel comfortable voting on a president until I receive something in writing,” Councilwoman Brenda Jones said.
Belle Isle to remain in Detroit’s hands – at least for now; council furious
Turns out, the pending deal between Mayor Dave Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder offers no assurance that the financially struggling park would receive a penny for improvements. In fact, any future funding depends on the availability of state funds, which are controlled by a traditionally anti-Detroit Legislature.
State raping Detroit? Kenyatta says so.
Tempers flared today after Detroit City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta suggested the state was anally raping the city. Kenyatta was urging his colleagues to stop participating in the state intervention, “rather than continuing to pull your pants down without Vaseline and allowing the folks to do what they’re doing to us.buy bactroban online https://jersey-hemp.com/wp-content/languages/new/online/bactroban.html no prescription […]