Ford Chairman Bill Ford told Local 4's Guy Gordon Friday afternoon that his company has [...]
You might think that the second largest car company in the country might be happy to see the first and third largest car companies go bankrupt and not come back. You’d be wrong. The chairman and heir of Ford Motor Company visited the White House on Monday and praised President [...]
Late Tuesday, House Speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township said his fellow Democrats who control the House will have to accept the bitter medicine of deep cuts with the hopes that the Republican-controlled Senate would muster votes for new taxes or fees to restore programs they [...]
Detroiters love cars. Maybe not like they love their children, but not dissimilar to how they love their dogs. Unlike car lovers from outside these parts, Detroiters define themselves by the auto manufacturer of their preference: a GM man, a Ford man or a Mopar man. It’s not uncommon for [...]
The Bay City Times undoes hundreds of years of common law by looking in a dictionary. I'm not kidding.
Let's bring some common sense to the argument, and that starts by stripping the evil cloak off a very ordinary word. Says the Oxford American Dictionary:
The first sign that you should [...]
Division 7 winners 42-8 over Hudson at Ford Field in Detroit. 2nd year in a row for Traverse City St. Francis.
Congratulations!!
[...]Even though Synagro Technologies has been tied to a bribery scandal that may land two company representatives, consultant Rayford Jackson and former Michigan executive James Rosendall, in prison, the Texas-based waste disposal company is in the running for a new contract with the city.
When bribery charges [...]
It’s time for another edition of Short Attention Span Theater:
In honor of “unfriend” being christened a word by the New Oxford Dictionary, I decided to do some. My Facebook is becoming ridiculous, not only a time suck but a ceaseless update on the lives of people I wouldn’t [...]
The newest lie is that there is a provision in the historic Affordable Health Care for America Act passed earlier this month that - get this - where you [...]
Michael Moore has an Op-Ed in today's Traverse City Record Eagle that demonstrates what a credit to this state he really is. Among his highly controversial suggestions for a better Traverse City?
7. CREATE WHAT DOWNTOWN STILL NEEDS. A small grocery store. An affordable diner (where young people can go [...]
Businessman Rayford Jackson, who was convicted this year of bribing city councilwoman Monica Conyers in 2007, will serve five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported late Friday afternoon. Five years was the maximum sentence that came with his guilty plea.
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn sentenced Jackson, and [...]
