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Emergency Meeting A workers program to answer the crisis in Detroit

Jobs, utilities, education, health care, and pensions are social rights! I call on all workers--young and old, employed and unemployed, in the city and throughout the Metro area--to attend an emergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has now submitted his economic plan--a slash-and-burn program to force the population of Detroit to pay back bondholders, while ...
Trump Immigrants wont vote for GOP

Donald Trump, left, Gov. Rick Snyder and Lincoln Club President David Trott were among the 2,300 attendees of the Lincoln Day dinner on Tuesday in Novi. (Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit ...
Gov GOP reach deal on surplus

Lansing - Gov. Rick Snyder and Republican legislative leaders reached an agreement Tuesday on how to divvy up nearly $702 million in surplus revenue as lawmakers race to complete the 2014 fiscal year budget by June 1. About $350 million of the projected surplus would be used for one-time priority road projects, dimming the hopes of road builders that the Legislature would heed Snyder's call ...
IRS chief to take fifth at hearing

Washington - Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing today. Lois Lerner heads the IRS division that singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 ...
EM opponent accuses Michigan Treasurer of perjury

Lansing - A union activist trying to get Detroit's emergency manager's appointment voided alleged the state treasurer lied under oath about correspondence he had with a state board that tapped the EM in March. Highland Park activist Robert Davis claims in a lawsuit Gov. Rick Snyder, state Treasurer Andy Dillon and the state's Emergency Loan Board, which technically hired Emergency ...

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One things for sure: You wont mistake Michael Manns films for the work of anyone else. Particularly over his last three films, The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), and now Collateral, he has honed a signature style of unexpected angles, off-kilter framin ... ...

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Michigan officials to develop school violence hotline

Lansing - Attorney General Bill Schuette and other state officials said Tuesday they want to develop a new statewide hotline for students, parents and other members of the public to leave confidential tips about potential school violence. The OK-2-SAY system would replace an underused school violence hotline created in 2004 by giving tipsters confidentiality protection under proposed changes in ...
Intern for Romney Ryan campaign faces federal cyberstalking charges

Detroit - A 2012 Republican presidential campaign intern who worked for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan made a brief appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges he cyber-stalked 15 women and extorted them into sending nude photos. The FBI says Adam Savader, 21, of Great Neck, N.Y., obtained nude photos of women by hacking into online accounts and threatening to release the pictures unless they sent ...
Former Detroit Public Library Official Charged with Taking Bribes www.privateofficer.com

The former Chief Administrative and Technology Officer of the Detroit Public Library was charged with taking more than $1.4 million in bribes and kickbacks from contractors of the library, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Joining McQuade in the announcement was Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley III, FBI, and Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez, IRS-Criminal ...
Tigers Verlander uses day off to get back on track

CLEVELAND — Justin Verlander pitched seven innings last week. This would be fine if he had started just one game. Unfortunately for him, he started two, making it through five innings against Cleveland and not even three against Texas.He gave up 12 hits and 12 runs. After the outing at Texas, Verlander said he needed to get back to the basics. Mostly, said Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones, ...
New law limiting fireworks use could be in effect by the Fourth of July

A collection of new legal firework devices as described by the Bureau of Fire Services within the Department of Labor and Economic Growth seen here on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at Motor City Fireworks in Monroe, Mich. / Jarrad Henderson / Detroit Free ...

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World Bank, UN chiefs to visit African Great Lakes region

The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region, a World Bank statement said Monday.

The visit is to be undertaken in support of a landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in the troubled region.

"The visit will draw attention to the plight of fragile and conflict-affected countries struggling to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

"It will highlight the commitment of the two international organisations to jointly tackle global conflict and poverty," reported Xinhua citing the statement.

Kim and Ban will travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from May 22-23, Rwanda from May 23-24, and Uganda May 24.

Their trip follows a ground-breaking agreement signed in February by 11 African nations to end conflict in the DRC and bring peace to the Great Lakes region.

Kim and Ban will meet with the DRC leaders and government officials and discuss how the UN and the World Bank can best support the agreement.

The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

The African Great Lake region is used in a narrow sense for the area lying between northern Lake Tanganyika, western Lake Victoria, and lakes Kivu, Edward and Albert. ...