Archives for Government

The controversy is likely going to be hashed out in court

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Judge Dana Hathaway, Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Wayne County, Robert Davis, ballot, election, Michigan Bureau of Elections, Michigan Secretary of State

The Michigan Supreme Court suspended Kahlilia Davis for six years for a pattern of bizarre, unethical conduct that was “beyond the pale”

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Kahlilia Davis, 36th District Court, election, Michigan Supreme Court, ethics, Michigan Department of State, Michigan Secretary of State, Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission

The former board chairman who resigned over an alleged blow job is accused of gender discrimination

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Detroit police, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Melanie White, Bryan Ferguson, gender discrimination, citizen complaints, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court

After Mayor Monique Owens refused to let residents criticize her during a meeting, the city will create a “First Amendment Day,” among other things

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Eastpointe, Monique Owens, mayor, First Amendment, free speech, city council, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, lawsuit

The agency stopped short of telling the company to move

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, Enbridge, Line 5, Great Lakes, Canada, Indigenous people in Michigan

This winter was extremely tough for snow-based businesses across northern Michigan and the Midwest

Tags: Michigan, Government, Environment, Gretchen Whitmer, climate change in Michigan, Northern Michigan, winter activities in Michigan

Bob Nelson is grateful but bitter, and suspects his car would still be in the tow yard if he didn’t speak up

Tags: Metro Detroit, Car Culture, Government, Bob Nelson, car, tow truck, Highland Park, Ford Thunderbird, class car, Highland Park Police, Troy's Towing

Taking a contrary position from her office in the case, Attorney General Dana Nessel urges Michigan State Police to release the names of all certified cops

Tags: Michigan, Government, News, wandering cops in Michigan, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, police misconduct in Michigan, Michigan State Police

The Palestinian-American Congresswoman presented the photographer with a plaque of recognition for his journalism work in Gaza

Tags: Metro Detroit, Government, News, Palestine, citizen journalists, Rashida Tlaib, Motaz Azaiza, Dearborn, Palestinian journalists, Slideshow

‘I went into a psychotic rage,’ Bob Nelson says

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Bob Nelson, car, tow truck, Highland Park, Ford Thunderbird, class car, Highland Park Police, Troy's Towing

Activists are worried about another wave of foreclosures based on inflated property taxes for some homes

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, property taxes, Coalition for Property Tax Justice

Trump runs a blood-curdling campaign of doom and gloom, fear and smear

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Views & Opinions, Donald Trump, 2024 election, Macomb County, Joe Biden

Lisa Stolarski was appointed after Janice Taylor-Dibbs resigned amid a housing scandal

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Highland Park, treasurer, Lisa Stolarski, Highland Park City Council

The fatal shooting prompted the police union to award the cops as “District Officers of the Year”

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Lamont Johnson, Tyler Nagy, Raul Martinez, lawsuit, police brutality, lawsuit, shooting, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, excessive force

Museums across the U.S. have covered or removed Native American exhibitions in response to stricter regulations

Tags: Arts, Government, History, News, Longform, Detroit Institute of Arts, Indigenous people in Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Detroit has the second highest rate of long COVID in the nation

Tags: Metro Detroit, Health Care, Government, COVID-19, Joe Tate, Michigan health care

Ex-Commissioner William Dwyer accused again of concealing claims of officer wrongdoing

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Warren Police Department, William Dwyer, wandering cops in Michigan, Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, MCOLES, Michigan, Warren, police misconduct

The Quinnipiac University survey also found strong support among Democrats for Gov. Whitmer to run for president in the future

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Media, News, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, 2024 presidential election

Senate Bills 57 and 58 will ban the sale of items used to inhale nitrous oxide to get high

Tags: Michigan, Government, News, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan drug laws, Michigan legislature

Daryl Vance was on life support for 20 days before he died in September from blunt force trauma to his head

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Juwan Brown, Daryl Vance, Detroit, Garden Bowl, assault, Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison