http://xtine562.vox.com/library/posts/tags/detroit/page/1/ en Vox Tue, 13 May 2008 11:08:00 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss detroit http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/oust-mayor-granholm-asked.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/oust-mayor-granholm-asked.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/oust-mayor-granholm-asked.html?_c=feed-rss 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/oust-mayor-granholm-asked.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200e398f9516d0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit corruption http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/detroit-deputy-mayor-warns-council-that-if-tunnel-deal-fails-expect-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/detroit-deputy-mayor-warns-council-that-if-tunnel-deal-fails-expect-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/detroit-deputy-mayor-warns-council-that-if-tunnel-deal-fails-expect-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/detroit-deputy-mayor-warns-council-that-if-tunnel-deal-fails-expect-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200f48cf43f900002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> economics politics detroit corruption http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/old-packard-bridge-falling-apart.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/old-packard-bridge-falling-apart.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/old-packard-bridge-falling-apart.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 02 May 2008 14:03:51 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/old-packard-bridge-falling-apart.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200f48cf437040002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> decay detroit packard http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/mayor-kilpatricks-legal-fund-backers-have-ties-that-bind.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/mayor-kilpatricks-legal-fund-backers-have-ties-that-bind.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/mayor-kilpatricks-legal-fund-backers-have-ties-that-bind.html?_c=feed-rss 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/mayor-kilpatricks-legal-fund-backers-have-ties-that-bind.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200f48cf23f4f0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit corruption http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/let-mayor-be-see-all-it-gets-us.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/let-mayor-be-see-all-it-gets-us.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/let-mayor-be-see-all-it-gets-us.html?_c=feed-rss 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/let-mayor-be-see-all-it-gets-us.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200f48cf23cf30003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit corruption http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/accuracy-of-detroit-police-crime-lab-is-questioned.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/accuracy-of-detroit-police-crime-lab-is-questioned.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/accuracy-of-detroit-police-crime-lab-is-questioned.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:51:58 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/accuracy-of-detroit-police-crime-lab-is-questioned.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200e398f3d4a70005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics crime law detroit omfg bad cops no doughnuts http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/e-mails-show-mayors-side-feared-leak-of-deal.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/e-mails-show-mayors-side-feared-leak-of-deal.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/e-mails-show-mayors-side-feared-leak-of-deal.html?_c=feed-rss 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/e-mails-show-mayors-side-feared-leak-of-deal.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200f48d10eb320001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit corruption perjury http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/some-points-you-can-raise-to-get-a-conversation-flowing-this-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/some-points-you-can-raise-to-get-a-conversation-flowing-this-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/some-points-you-can-raise-to-get-a-conversation-flowing-this-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:05:52 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/some-points-you-can-raise-to-get-a-conversation-flowing-this-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200e398f3ce110005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/motown-mayoral-mayhem.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/motown-mayoral-mayhem.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/motown-mayoral-mayhem.html?_c=feed-rss 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/motown-mayoral-mayhem.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200e398f3cd460005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics evil detroit corruption perjury http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/bill-mcgraw-citys-biggest-crisis-is-struggle-to-provide-basics-for-residents.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Xtine) http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/bill-mcgraw-citys-biggest-crisis-is-struggle-to-provide-basics-for-residents.html?_c=feed-rss http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/bill-mcgraw-citys-biggest-crisis-is-struggle-to-provide-basics-for-residents.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:26:48 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://xtine562.vox.com/library/post/bill-mcgraw-citys-biggest-crisis-is-struggle-to-provide-basics-for-residents.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d47884000200e398f0e33c0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics detroit corruption