Zut Alors!

Oust mayor, Granholm asked

2008-05-13T18:08:00Z

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

2008-05-03T00:08:16Z

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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Old Packard bridge falling apart

2008-05-02T21:03:51Z

Chunks of concrete drop onto streets, sidewalks, but little is done about it BY BILL McGRAW FREE PRESS COLUMNIST May 2, 2008 It was a nice spring day last week when John Irvin walked past the hulking old Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in D...

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Mayor Kilpatrick's legal fund backers have ties that bind

2008-04-26T18:36:52Z

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

2008-04-26T17:56:44Z

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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Accuracy of Detroit police crime lab is questioned

2008-04-26T17:51:58Z

All firearms investigations temporarily suspended BY ERIC D. LAWRENCE and BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS April 26, 2008 The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office plans to review a year's worth of Detroit criminal cases involving firearms amid co...

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

2008-04-26T17:47:14Z

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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Some points you can raise to get a conversation flowing this weekend

2008-04-26T16:05:52Z

The Detroit Free Press April 26, 2008 No leftover slush from defense fund With $700-an-hour lawyers and lengthy court proceedings ahead, it's doubtful Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will have a surplus in the legal defense fund for which he is s...

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Motown Mayoral Mayhem

2008-04-26T15:56:03Z

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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Bill McGraw: City's biggest crisis is struggle to provide basics for residents

2008-04-17T06:26:48Z

BY BILL MCGRAW MOTOR CITY JOURNAL April 15, 2008 After the latest episode of city government dysfunction -- the City Council's brush-off of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his new budget Monday -- it's tempting to conclude that the city of Detroit has...

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