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Oust mayor, Granholm asked

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:08:00 -0700

City Council also to pursue Kilpatrick's removal from office By Zachary Gorchow and Naomi R. Patton Free Press Staff Writers May 13, 2008 The Detroit City Council has just voted to launch a two-track effort to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from o...

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Detroit deputy mayor warns council that if tunnel deal fails, expect cuts

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:08:16 -0700

By Zachary Gorchow and Naomi Patton Free Press Staff Writers May 2, 2008 A top aide to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick warned the City Council today that Kilpatrick will implement “drastic cuts” in services [NB: What services? We don't have any se...

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House committee threatens Rove with subpoena

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:15:42 -0700

By BEN EVANS 1 May 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee threatened Thursday to subpoena former White House adviser Karl Rove if he does not agree by May 12 to testify about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's corruption case. In ...

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Police question Israeli PM about foreign campaign donations

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:52:28 -0700

By ARON HELLER The Associated Press Friday, May 2, 2008 JERUSALEM -- Police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday in an investigation of campaign donations by a U.S. citizen - the fifth high-profile probe involving the Israeli leader wh...

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Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:37:21 -0700

By GARDINER HARRIS The New York Times Published: April 28, 2008 Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s...

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Thank Gawd for Wonkette

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:55:50 -0700

ROBBER BARONS John McCain Funded By The Freaking ROTHSCHILDS For somebody who's always accusing his opponents of being "out of touch" with the Working Man, John McCain sure does hang out with a lot of fat-cat plutocrats who don't even have the de...

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Mayor Kilpatrick's legal fund backers have ties that bind

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:36:52 -0700

Key fundraisers have city contracts, but deny conflict of interest. Christine MacDonald and David Josar / The Detroit News Thursday, April 24, 2008 DETROIT -- Key players on Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's legal defense fundraising team have at least ...

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Let mayor be, see all it gets us

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:56:44 -0700

BY ROCHELLE RILEY FREE PRESS COLUMNIST April 24, 2008 Quit playing. The mayor and his chief of staff, according to the county prosecutor, use a city two-way to discuss a fired cop and steamy hookups? I know I've been gone for eight months, but ...

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E-mails show mayor's side feared leak of deal

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:47:14 -0700

Cough up missing document, judge orders Kilpatrick BY JIM SCHAEFER and JOE SWICKARD FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS April 26, 2008 E-mails released Friday in a Free Press lawsuit against the City of Detroit show that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's city-paid a...

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Motown Mayoral Mayhem

nobody@vox.com(Xtine) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:56:03 -0700

Detroit's Scandal Is About More Than Sex By SHIKHA DALMIA April 26, 2008; Wall Street Journal Detroit They are calling it "PagerGate." It's a sex scandal involving Detroit's Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. It broke in January and, as details...

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