Published: 11/18/2009
News Hits has been pondering last week's testimony by Mike Stefani, the attorney for whistle-blowing cops who played a pivotal role in forcing former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office. Stefani now faces professional misconduct charges brought by the Attorney Greivance Commission* for his r...[MORE]
Published: 11/11/2009
Two months ago Belva Davis looked at 125 or so neighbors, activists and others outside of her endangered house and said she felt like David against Goliath. Goliath, in this case, was the tag team of Wachovia Bank (which had written her subprime mortgage in 2003) and Ocwen Financial (the mortgage se...[MORE]
Published: 11/11/2009
News Hits doesn't usually run announcements about upcoming TV shows, but we're making an exception this week because there's an exceptional documentary set to make its U.S. broadcast debut on Detroit's public television station. We're talking about The Water Front, a deeply moving and incisive film...[MORE]
Published: 11/4/2009
The pictures stay on the lawn. That's the upshot as the city of Grosse Pointe Park withdraws its appeal of a lower court ruling that found its sign ordinance unconstitutional. The Park city fathers had gone after Erica Chappuis, and her husband, Laurent Chappuis, for erecting her paintings in the...[MORE]
Published: 11/4/2009
For some, downtown Royal Oak's proposed 10-screen theater and bowling alley, with its already-approved liquor license, is the harbinger of suburban ruin. To them it promises parking woes, unwanted traffic and a "big box" operation that will be out of character with the walkable downtown an...[MORE]
Published: 10/28/2009
Types: News, Environmental
That Bill Milliken has always been an insight guy. As governor from 1969 to 1983, he worked for education reform, urban policy and civil rights. He signed the state's Freedom of Information Act, which allows the public to access governmental records. He ushered through environmental protection meas...[MORE]
Published: 10/28/2009
With November fast approaching, election season is heating up. No, we're not talking about the Detroit mayor's race or City Council contest. We're talking about the 2010 election to determine who will replace Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who can't run again because of term limits. We bring this up now b...[MORE]
Published: 10/21/2009
The 2007 inspection report released last week finding the Ambassador Bridge in "fair condition" was mostly unremarkable, save for a few descriptions of the "poor condition" of certain sections outside of the primary structural parts. The color photos of cracks and missing bolts ...[MORE]
Published: 10/14/2009
Before the Monday, Oct. 12, editorial in The Detroit News, Detroit school board member Anthony Adams all but predicted the paper's endorsements — or lack of them — in the eight-candidate election for four at-large board of education seats next month. "There is a natural bent along ...[MORE]
Published: 10/14/2009
Talk about a tricky situation. Pulitzer Prize winning Free Press reporters M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer last week found themselves covering a story they were directly involved in. It's an explosive issue that centers, in part, on the guy who now appears to be the person most responsible for the tw...[MORE]
Published: 10/7/2009
Last time we checked our résumés, none of the crew here at News Hits was claiming to have an MBA from Wharton (at least not legitimately), so it's not like we're exactly qualified to question the moves being made by all those highly paid executives calling the shots for the Detroit News and Free Pre...[MORE]
Published: 9/30/2009
Craig Gonser can't be charged in a 1994 sexual assault he's suspected of, but authorities are proceeding with a trial to declare him a sexually delinquent person in the wake of two other convictions last week. If Gonser is found guilty, Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith says he'll ask the judge &...[MORE]
Published: 9/30/2009
For years now, News Hits would have bet big that Kwame Kilpatrick had no hand in the 2003 murder of exotic dancer Tamara "Strawberry" Greene, who was rumored to have performed at the infamous Manoogian Mansion party that, officially, anyway, never actually happened. The same non-party tha...[MORE]
Published: 9/23/2009
Types: News, Government
They're calling it a "Care-a-van" — a cadre of medical doctors who piled into a motor home and pulled out of Oregon's Willamette Valley on Sept. 8, to rally support across the country for a single-payer health care system. And the doctors — aided by the likes of Dennis Kucinich...[MORE]
Published: 9/23/2009
Has your job been shipped of to foreign shores or your workplace been sold to faraway profiteers with a bottom-line-only mentality? The Detroit Community-Based Business Week presents an alternative vision of cooperative economic development as we struggle to recover from recession and battered local...[MORE]
Published: 9/23/2009
The city of Grosse Pointe Park is appealing a Wayne County Circuit Court ruling that the suburb's sign ordinance is unconstitutional. Laurent Chappuis was prosecuted under the ordinance after his wife, Erica Chappuis, erected her paintings in their yard. The city ticketed him, saying he needed a pe...[MORE]
Published: 9/23/2009
Call it the case of the reappearing evidence. About nine years ago, the Innocence Project at Cooley Law School started looking for remaining evidence in the 1986 rape of a 9-year-old Detroit girl. Students and faculty at the Lansing school were representing Karl Vinson, the man convicted in the att...[MORE]
Published: 9/16/2009
Two guys with a truck got Belva Davis into her three-bedroom bungalow on Bishop Street in Detroit's East English Village back in 2003. On Saturday, 125 or so folks — neighbors, anti-foreclosure activists, politicians and others — gathered outside her house in an effort to keep her there...[MORE]
Published: 9/9/2009
Working hard not to jump up and start screaming, News Hits sat in Detroit's 36th District Court last week, growing more and more disturbed every time lawyers for the Detroit International Bridge Co. raised the specter of terrorism, and how it's fallen upon the company to protect this vital economic ...[MORE]
Published: 9/2/2009
The Grosse Pointe Park ordinance used to prosecute an artist's husband because paintings were displayed in the couple's yard is unconstitutional, a Wayne County judge has ruled. Score one for the First Amendment. Erica Chappuis and her husband, Laurent Chappuis, have displayed her colorful pieces ...[MORE]
Published: 9/2/2009
Types: News, Environmental
At last week's meeting of the Environmental Justice Committee that she chairs, Detroit City Council member JoAnn Watson noted that she frequently talks with people who think efforts last year to close the city's municipal waste incinerator were successful. The mistake is understandable, considering...[MORE]
Published: 8/26/2009
Types: News, Government
Published: 8/26/2009
Types: News, Transportation
Just so everyone knows from the get-go, News Hits fully realizes that, in terms of municipal finances, the city of Detroit truly is in the deepest kind of shit. We've been there for a while, but it wasn't all that obvious to most because of Kwame Kilpatrick's budgetary flimflam. But when you talk ...[MORE]
By Curt Guyette
Published: 8/19/2009
Types: News, Transportation
We read with interest last week's news that Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is considering the elimination of city bus service on Sundays and Saturday nights as one way to help reduce a deficit estimated to be about $350 million. That's it, Bingo — make hitting the poor where it hurts most one of you...[MORE]
Published: 8/12/2009
It sounds like fodder for a Hollywood thriller: A shadowy company in the business of supplying mercenaries starts knocking off witnesses who were attempting to implicate fanatical, avaricious corporate honchos they claimed were involved in all sorts of nefarious deeds. But instead of being found in...[MORE]
Published: 7/29/2009
Types: News, Environmental
When environmentalists and alternative energy advocates last pushed the Michigan Legislature to enact renewable energy standards, the best they could do was the passage of legislation mandating that, by the year 2015, 10 percent of the state's power would be generated by solar panels, wind turbines ...[MORE]
Published: 7/29/2009
Types: News, Government
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing put it right out there: the possibility of the city filing for bankruptcy. But was he making an educated prediction or rattling his proverbial saber? In an exclusive interview with the Detroit Free Press last week, the new mayor set the stage for what promises to be a dramat...[MORE]
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