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Politics & Elections

RFK Jr. secures ballot access in Michigan as potential spoiler

Whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will draw more votes from Biden or Trump is the subject of much debate and speculation

By Steve Neavling
Apr 18, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Election, politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Natural Law Party, vaccines, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, President Biden, Michigan
Politics & Elections

Anti-Trump campaign targets Michigan with voices of disaffected Republicans

Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $50 million ad campaign featuring homemade testimonial videos from remorseful voters

By Steve Neavling
Apr 15, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Donald Trump, election, politics, Republicans, Political Action Committee, Republican Voters Against Trump, Joe Biden
Metro Detroit

Wayne County public defender sues judges for alleged bias against lower-income defendants

“I know I’m doing the right thing,” Sundus Jaber says after filing whistleblower lawsuit against 35th District Court

By Steve Neavling
Apr 12, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Sundus Jaber, 35th District Court, public defender, Regional Managed Assigned Counsel Office, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, Wayne County, Plymouth
Metro Detroit

Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study

Activists and the Detroit City Council say the city is cheating lower-income residents by illegally and disproportionately overtaxing homes

By Steve Neavling
Apr 11, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, property tax foreclosures, homes, evictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Treasurer Sabree, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Detroit City Council
Politics & Elections

Right-wing fraudsters fined $1.25M for racist robocall scheme in Michigan, other states

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged with multiple felonies for spreading misinformation to Black voters in the Detroit area

By Steve Neavling
Apr 10, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Crime, Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman, New York, Michigan, Detroit, Black voters, election, politics, Letitia James, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Metro Detroit

Grosse Pointe group sued again for defiant construction of $45M performing arts center

The lawsuit alleges the Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation is putting residents at risk of flooding

By Steve Neavling
Apr 4, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, lawsuit, Wayne County, Fox Creek, drain pipe, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Fox Creek Drainage District, drain easement
Cannabis News

Michigan cannabis connoisseurs wanted to help judge best locally grown products

The ‘Best in Grass’ contest aims to identify the crème de la crème of locally grown marijuana

By Steve Neavling
Apr 3, 2024

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Best in Grass, marijuana, contest, sativa, indica, hybrid, judges, best marijuana
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: Trump’s trail of ‘blood’ goes back (at least) to Michigan

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

By Joe Lapointe
Mar 25, 2024

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

Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway hospitalized

First responders were called to the popular judge’s Grosse Pointe Park home on Wednesday afternoon

By Steve Neavling
Mar 22, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Wayne County, court, Wayne County Circuit Court, Dana Hathaway, court
Metro Detroit

State agency probes Warren Police Department’s alleged offer to hide misconduct investigation

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

By Steve Neavling
Mar 15, 2024

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
Metro Detroit

Lapointe: Clinton Township blast too close to home

On things that go ‘boom’ in the night

By Joe Lapointe
Mar 7, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Lapointe, News, Views & Opinions, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan vaping industry
Metro Detroit

Deadly Clinton Twp. explosion was result of illegally stored chemicals at vape shop

A 19-year-old man was killed from the blast

By Lee DeVito
Mar 6, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, Government, Weed, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Gretchen Whitmer, vaping laws in Michigan
Investigations

What a strange traffic stop in Romeo reveals about Michigan’s ‘wandering cop’ laws

The bizarre case is yet another example of what happens when law enforcement allows cops to move from agency to agency after committing alleged misconduct

By Steve Neavling
Mar 6, 2024

Tags: Investigations, Crime, Government, News, wandering cops in Michigan, Village of Romeo, Macomb County, Warren Police Department, police misconduct in Michigan, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Highland Park councilman tells police mayor threatened him with physical violence

‘You literally fucked with the wrong person. I don’t take threats well,’ Councilman Ash-Shafii says

By Steve Neavling
Mar 4, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Khursheed Ash-Shafii, Glenda McDonald, threat, Highland Park, Great Lakes Water authority, water deal, michigan, Michigan State Police
Politics & Elections

Justin Amash returns to Republican Party to run for U.S. Senate seat

Once the only Libertarian in Congress, Amash left the GOP in 2019 citing a ‘partisan death spiral’

By Steve Neavling
Feb 29, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Justin Amash, U.S. Senate, politics, election, Republicans, libertarian, Republican primary election, Congress
Politics & Elections

Marianne Williamson ‘unsuspends’ her presidential campaign as Americans watch ‘car crash in slow motion’

Her re-entry into the race comes one day after both Biden and Trump showed vulnerabilities in Michigan’s primary election

By Steve Neavling
Feb 28, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Marianne Williamson, Politics, election, Donald Trump, President Biden, universal health care, student debt, tuition-free college, democrats, primary election
Politics & Elections

Flint mayor Neeley warns Democrats of Black voter exodus

Polls show an increasing number of Black voters are pulling away from the Democratic Party

By Steve Neavling
Feb 22, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Sheldon Neeley, Flint, Sam Riddle, National Action Network, Michigan, Michigan Democratic Party, President Biden, Donald Trump, election, politics
Michigan

Nessel moves to toss lawsuit by hair salon that said trans people should go to ‘pet groomer’

Traverse City’s Studio 8 Hair Lab claims it has the right to discriminate based on gender identity

By Steve Neavling
Feb 21, 2024

Tags: Michigan, News, LGBTQ+, Civil Rights, Michigan, Studio 8 Hair Lab, Traverse City, Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, transphobia in Michigan, transgender rights in Michigan, Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act
Politics & Elections

Dearborn mayor makes stirring case for ‘uncommitted’ vote in Democratic primary

Abdullah Hammoud says Biden is ignoring Arab Americans who helped him win Michigan

By Steve Neavling
Feb 20, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Media, Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn, Arab Americans, Muslims, Michigan, Democratic Primary election, Democrats, uncommitted
Politics & Elections

Macomb Prosecutor Lucido accused of ethics violation for photo with election fraudster

The complaint alleges Lucido used his office to promote a political candidate

By Steve Neavling
Feb 16, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Peter Lucido, Paul Manni, Macomb County, Sterling Heights, Macomb County Ethics Board, Macomb County Prosecutor's Office