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What does it take to get an answer to your questions from the Romulus, Mayor, Council or Clerk? I guess the answer to that question is 'It depends'. During the City Council meeting on December 7th I asked several questions after council voted five to two for the Associated News to serve as their official newspaper when they admitted to not printing or distributing a newspaper. Councilpersons Kathleen Abdo, John Barden, Celeste Roscoe and Tina Talley voted in support of the motion and councilpers...
Friend, This year could have taken away everything. 2020 reminded us that we've only come so far. It was a year that threatened decades of progress, and rather than accept it, you decided to fight. You persisted, mobilized your neighbors, used your voice, and most importantly, used your vote. Together, we organized. We inspired. We challenged racism in our communities, in the courts, in the White House – and we won. Never forget, we were triumphant because of you. Your support, your d...
Twice a year I publish a column 'We must hold our Elected Officials Accountable". As I rally with the community members and we discuss the issues that are important to them, I see the fire in their eyes. They are passionate about so many things. Their concerns range from salaries of the city attorneys, property being sold in the community, police stops & police interaction, councilpersons voting the influence of the Mayor, diversity of city hall employees, number of marijuana facilities within...
Where do you get your news from? I’m not talking about news outlets that only tell stories about people in your community when they commit a crime. I’m talking about news outlets that tell stories about positive news going on in your community. Aley Haley, writer of the acclaimed book, ‘Roots’, lived by six words, "Find the good and praise it." Each week, the Telegram Newspaper strives to share information about what good people are doing while reporting on positive stories that are happeni...
DETROIT – "Posterity! You will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it." These are the words of President John Quincy Adams. Today, the freedom of the people in the state of Michigan has been preserved. Let the votes count and certify every vote! The attempt of President Donald Trump and his cohorts to overturn the election of 2020 was brought to a halt in the state of Michigan. After failure in the courts, elimination o...
As a Trump supporter, I hate to say this, but I think that the President should concede the election and set his eyes towards 2024. After four years of Biden/Harris, we might be ready to go back to Trump. Or a Trump supported candidate. The mainstream media is making Trump look foolish as he fights to find out the actual results. Even though if it was Biden fighting for the result, the media would be supporting the fight. There are still two weeks before certification of the election. Remember,...
The former FLOTUS used all of her Ivy League degrees to collect her South Side Chicago self from going off on the President. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Donald Trump still hasn't officially conceded to President-elect Joe Biden. The Delaware native secured the 2020 election by a landslide in both the popular and electoral votes, and instead of preparing for a smooth transition of power in the White House come January 2021, Americans are instead bracing for a clash reminiscent of...
The number of cases of people having a positive test for COVID-19 has been increasing. Then why are people still not wearing a mask or face covering? Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order in July of 2020 reiterating that people are required to wear a face covering whenever they are in an indoor public space or crowded outdoor spaces. I'm sure this wasn't done to penalize anyone. This was done to save people lives. Earlier this summer, it looked liked Michigan had finally got...
Look at the cities the nation is depending on in order to not re-elect an incompetent, racist, misogynistic president who has killed 230,000 Americans in seven months... Philly, Atlanta, Milwaukee and realize America is always leaning on Black people to save the day," added Dr. Ebony Hilton, an associate professor of Anesthesiology and a critical care physician at the University of Virginia. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Perhaps a single...
.It is the year 2020, and the General Election is less than a week away. Are you going to vote in the election. I hope so. This brief history explains what transpired in order for you to have 'the right' to vote. The 15th Amendment states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. " The 15th Amendment granting African-American men the right to vote was...
In 2016, then-candidate Donald J. Trump asked African Americans, "what the hell do you have to lose," by supporting his campaign. Nearly four years later, the answer is painfully clear: a hell of a lot. In the past eight months alone, a majority of Black businesses have closed, Black families are experiencing high unemployment and facing economic insecurity. Most tragic of all, Black people have died from the novel coronavirus at double the rate of whites. It didn't have to be that way, but...
We saw the last 2020 presidential debate last week and it was pretty balanced and tame than the first debate. But one thing popped out during the debate that made everyone heads spin. He said that he would faze out fossil fuels, I think he said in five years, but I hoped I heard it wrong. He tried to deny that he would end fracking but there is video that proves he said it. That night Biden probably lost Pennsylvania and Ohio. Why would a presidential candidate want to end America’s energy s...
A paraphrased quote attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., says "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." The current zeitgeist has cast a pall of perplexing uncertainty for many over the status of the soul of this nation. It is a seismic moment of truth for us all. The malaise of mistrust. The nightmare of division and hyper-partisanship. The maelstrom of racial and economic inequity and injustice. The ongoing crisis of the pandemic and other issues that...
I watched a group of young people over the last few months and I began to ponder the question, why are they activist? Were they born with the Activist gene or did they become activist because of the associations that they have had. After thinking about it for a while, I decided that it is probably a combination of both. I watched these young people stand and speak so eloquently about things that they want to change in their communities and in the colleges and schools that they attend. They...
DETROIT – "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. This comes at a time when silence is betrayal," Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The recent takedown of the thirteen members of this band of domestic terrorists who threatened to kidnap, place on trial, and carry out a sentence on the life of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer should be a call t...
Detroit businessman and Citizens for Detroit's Future/Citizen Detroit President, Tom Barrow released the group's position on Proposal ‘N’ This controversial proposal will appear only on the city of Detroit ballot and is an initiative to authorize the city’s mayor to borrow $250,000,000 advertised to demolish abandoned homes, eliminate "blight". It is at best puzzling why a city, reeling from bankruptcy which led to its selling all of its valuable assets to private investors and which now suffers from a 68% decline in its essential gener...
There has only been one thing in the news this past weekend, even as news about an FBI conspiracy against President Trump has started to come out. The President went into Walter Reed Hospital last weekend with a case of Covid-19. From what I understand a mild case of the virus. As of this writing the President should be back in the White House by Thursday. His wife Melania also has a case of Covid-19, along with many aides. At first many people were sympathetic, but after the first five minutes...
RIVER ROUGE – A public hearing is when the citizens of a city are able to voice their comments on a certain issue that will affect the city. A public hearing must be published in a newspaper two weeks before the hearing date. Most notices for River Rouge are published in the Telegram Newspaper. However, this one was not. I would like to inform the citizens of River Rouge that a public hearing will be held on Monday, October 5th at 4:00pm in the City Council Chambers. The purpose of the Public He...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal lioness of the Supreme Court, died last week. She was 87. She was nominated to the Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and stayed on until death. She became part of the liberal wing of the court as it shifted to the right. But ideology did not seem to define her as one of her closest friends became the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. President Trump has a short list of replacements for Ginsburg, mostly women, but would like to...
he shocking revelations from the last few days that Trump disparaged the military and intentionally downplayed the threat of the coronavirus have confirmed what I have believed since this President assumed office. Donald Trump is a deplorable, morally repugnant, morally bankrupt, con man devoid of any character who has proven himself to be the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. Never before has this country been led nant, morally bankrupt, con man devoid of any character who h...
There is so much bad news around us. It is easy to be cynical and pessimistic. Self-interest is seen as what gets people going. Everyone is trying to maximize their utility and they act rationally, economists say. But there are people indispensable in our society that put their life on the line for the rest of society. They are the first responders- police, fire and paramedics. Many of them have died serving society. They are society's unsung heroes. Recently, we heard the sad news of the death...
History is prone to repeat itself. This is a column I wrote in 2018. I wanted to republish it so we could see that we need to work on this vigorously. February 16, 2018 It started in 2016, now it's 2018. What has changed? Former San Francisco 49er player, Colin Kaepernick brought attention to the plight of African American and people of color who have become victims when many are confronted by the police. His silent protest was simply taking a knee while the National Anthem was being played...
I sometimes ponder on the question, what is the responsibility of elected officials? I believe that their main responsibility is to represent the people in the area where they were elected. Whether it is a city council, state representative, governor, etc., they are to represent the people. However, there are times when elected officials seem to vote their own agenda. They may vote to pass legislation that will benefit their friend's company and sometimes they may vote not to support the best...
Where do you get your news from? I'm not talking about news outlets that only tell stories about people in your community when they commit a crime. I'm talking about news outlets that tell stories about positive news going on in your community. Aley Haley, writer of the acclaimed book, 'Roots', lived by six words, "Find the good and praise it." Each week, the Telegram Newspaper strives to share information about the good people are doing while reporting on positive stories that are happening in...
There has been so much going on in 2020, that it is hard to determine which issue to focus on. Within the pages of the Telegram News, I try to encourage our readers to get involved in their communities. We do a good job at keeping you focused on an issue, but now we have to figure out a way to do many things at once. Here is my attempt to prioritize our efforts for the remainder of 2020. Since it is so much going on, we are asking for 'All Hands On Deck. 1. COVID-19 – You can't help your f...
