Andrew Trunsky on November 2, 2020 One day from the election, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are zigzagging in competitive states across the Midwest in one final push before Nov. 3. Trump will hold rallies Monday in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Traverse City, Michigan and Kenosha, Wisconsin before returning to Michigan…
Jonathan Vanderhagen is sitting in jail on a $500,000 bond. Not for murder. Not for rape. Not for grand theft. His crime is criticizing a judge and a court who awarded custody of his son Killian to the mother. Jonathan believed the mother was unfit. Despite this, (as Family Court does by near default) custody…
by Josh Guckert On Tuesday a lawsuit was filed in federal court against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other state education officials. The suit, filed on behalf of seven black and Latino students, alleges “slum-like conditions” at schools “lacking the most basic educational opportunities.” The students allege a violation of the 14th Amendment due to…
Called Johnson’s Economic Plans “Common Sense” By: Elias J. Atienza The Detroit News editorial board put out a new editorial where they called the Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson “A voice for free markets.” The Detroit News is the second biggest newspaper in Michigan. “Gary Johnson may not know what Aleppo is — though after his embarrassing campaign gaffe…
Federal authorities in Detroit say that between the years of 2011 and 2014, a rogue group of Detroit police officers were not arresting certain drug dealers; instead they would rob the dealers of cash and drugs and then sell the drugs for even more cash, knowing the dealers couldn’t very well go to the police…
By Blake Neff Over 90 percent of Detroit schools were closed Monday as the system was rocked by yet another “sickout,” with thousands of teachers taking simultaneous sick days in order to force the system to shut down. The sickout was called by the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) Sunday, in an effort to pressure Detroit…
Blake Neff Detroit’s public schools are bleeding money so fast that within a month they simply won’t have the cash needed to meet payroll, the district’s emergency manager warned lawmakers Wednesday. To save itself, the district is begging Michigan lawmakers to bail it out to the tune of $715 million. The request was made by…
The NRA has weighed in on last night’s Democratic debate, defending Bernie Sanders. While that may seem on its face to be bizarre, it’s because the socialist presidential candidate actually made a good point, defending gun manufactures. Hillary has been campaigning on the position that gun manufacturers should be held liable for any crimes committed…
Blake Neff An unfortunate, foolish and only half-clothed man in Detroit died in a car crash Sunday after police say he became distracted watching a pornographic movie on his phone. According to The Detroit News, not only was Clifford Ray Jones, 58, watching a dirty video while driving around at 3:30 a.m., but he also wasn’t…
Blake Neff Almost every public school in Detroit is closed Wednesday because so many teachers have called in sick that the schools can’t function. These so-called “sickouts” have consumed the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) over the past two weeks, forcing repeated closures, but Wednesday’s closures appear to be the worst yet, taking out roughly 90 percent of…