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Do you know why I stopped you? That is what the police officer said to me the other day? Lights blarring and my passengers looking at me. No, I don't know why you stopped me sir. The officer says, 'Your license plate light is out. What?? Yes, your license plate light is out. My question was, how was I to know that? Is there a sensor on the dashboard that lets me know? So I ask, can I get out and look? No, my headlights are shinning on your car, so you wont be able to tell. OK. So for $7.00 and...
On January 29, before the cravenly Republican senators voted on February 5 to give the criminal false president Donald Trump dictatorial powers instead of righteously removing him from office, I and countless others received a fund-raising email from his co-conspirator in his Ukraine coverup--Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell--via the 'Daily Grind News.' Perhaps because I "redacted" the fund-raising information in that January 29 email from Sen. McConnell to which I was responding and had...
On Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. Why make such a spectacle of yourself. It did in some way work. No one is talking about the speach, just about you tearing up the State of the Union speech. According to you who listen to, it might have been a felony. I don’t believe anyone will prosecute if it was, but Nancy Pelosi did make a statement even better than Gretchen Whitmer did. Now it might have been the snubbed handshake that she didn’t receive but I did hear she did a practice tear on the speech to mak...
With all the lunacy going on in Washington the last week with the impeachment trial of President Trump, we were reminded last weekend of what is important. Nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his 13 year old daughter, died in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles. Not being much of a basketball fan, I found out about it during the NFL Pro Bowl. The game was almost secondary in thought as news kept coming in. My thought has been mostly toward Kobe’s wife, Vanessa, an his remaining c...
n 2010, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) (also known as the Hardest Hit Fund) was established to provide help to families in areas of the nation adversely affected by the economic tsunami ignited by wild, predatory speculators in the housing and financial markets. The Hardest Hit program initially focused on five states (Michigan being one of them) with the most distressed homeowners and a funded initiative of 9.6 billion dollars that included 18 states along with the District of Columbi...
I know it isn't February yet, but it doesn't have to be February for you to learn about your history. During 2020, the Telegram News will have a series entitled, 'Pioneers of African American History'. This section will focus on sharing information about unfamiliar African Americans. Most people know about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Madame C. J. Walker, but there are so many others that helped to shape our lives. I grew up in a household that focused on learning...
Good financial habits start with an effort. Do you have $260.00 in your savings account (or in the box under your bed)? If not, do you have a plan to get there by the end of the year? If you saved $5.00 per week last year, you would have saved $260.00. If you saved $10.00 a week, you would have saved $520.00. Taking control of your finances is a way of taking charge of your life. We MUST make financial decisions for our future, today. The goal is to have enough savings to cover your monthly...
The local community would be better if the residents supported the local businesses. Our buying power is just that...Powerful. When we spend our money with local businesses it keeps the doors open and prevent our cities looking like ghost towns. Here are five reasons why you should Think Local, Buy Local and Be. Local. 1. Buy Local -- Support yourself: Several studies have shown that when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned businesses,...
Last week, I received a phone call that turned my life upside down. One of my kids were gone. Someone had taken the life of Tamia Crawford. True enough Tamia was not my birth child, however during her years of high school and her friendship with my sons, she was like part of my family. Do you know what you did? I know her birth parents are hurting. I know her siblings are hurting. I know her family is hurting. You have taken her away from all of these people. Do you know what you did? She...
How much time do your children spend reading in a week? Do they see you reading? I have always been a reader. My parents made sure we read books, mostly Black History books or stories, however we always were reading. I remember my teacher at Northrup Elementary school, Ms. Moore, challenging us to read a book a week. We also had competitions to see who could read the most books and since I love to win... I always kept a book in my hand. Guess what, my kids grew up reading and winning too. My...
A Long Island, New York, high school football coach was suspended for winning-and winning big time. The final score was 61-13. Now if you are a follower of American college football a score like that happens frequently. In fact it may be encouraged to move up in the polls to make the college football playoffs. But to suspend a coach for a game for doing what he is supposed to do, WIN, seems somewhat unamerican. People haven’t been this upset over a win since the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team bea...
Election Day November 3, 2020. President Donald Trump will lose this election and what will he do? Most people that know him and written books have said he will not go quietly into the night. The ex-President will say that the election was rigged by left wing extremist and blame the deep state for his loss. Many in the right wing will say that this is the end of America and some may that to the street because they want single party government that expresses their white extremist issues. America...
I watched a group of young people at the Annual NAACP State Convention this past weekend 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 on the ride home from Saginaw, I decided that it is probably a combination of both. I watched the young people stand and speak so eloquently about things that they want to change in their communities and in the col...
Have you ever contemplated whether your life has meaning? Do you think that the thing that you do will have a lasting impact on your family, community or the world? As I have been looking over my life as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Telegram Newspaper, I often think about those questions. I realized that it isn't something that you think about once and come to an answer, it is something that you continuous ponder. Some of the life statements of Gina Wilson Steward - educator,...
The streets of River Rouge city was flowing with love and appreciation on this past Saturday as they continue to come together and believing that things will get better. When you have people approaching you for prayer with tears running down their faces and trusting that you can get a prayer through for them it speaks volume. There were young men and women touching and agreeing, praying for the people as well as 9 year old LaDreme Stinson seeing her friends on the street and began to pray with...
Well, summer is coming to an end. It is time for the youth to go back to school. Some are going to college and some are going to elementary. That will free up some time for most parents to take some time for themselves. I encourage each parent to take some ME Time. You may ask what is ME Time. That is when you focus on yourself. I know that is hard to do. However if you don’t take some time for yourself your body has a way of letting you know that you should have. (It will shut down on you) W...
f you can't remember a time when overt racism was at this level in America during your lifetime, that's because the majority of Americans alive today have never lived through an America this bad. For some, a state of near comatose denial is preferable to the horror show that is reality, because the reality of America today is too much to bear. For many, denial is the best way to cope. We are witnessing a remainder of the days before and after the Civil War. It is not simply the last gasp of democracy; it is the death rattle of the American...
A Saturday morning shooting rampage in El Paso, Texas on August 3 took the lives of 22 people, and seriously injured more than two dozen others. Reportedly, the alleged shooter wanted to kill as many Mexicans as he could. Armed with safety glasses, ear coverings and an assault-style rifle, the shooter entered a Walmart store during a back-to-school sale. "Saturday's attack on El Paso was an attack on the Mexican heritage of millions of Americans – and also part of a history of white s...
Thank you so much for your support of the Telegram Newspaper. June 1, 2019, marked my 13th year as CEO/Publisher of this awesome community newspaper. I couldn't have done it without the support of you and the community. Think about it, we have expanded from telling the positive news in just three cities to now keeping you informed about happenings in fifteen cities. We have doubled the number of pages from 8 to 16, added color pages, added a website and helped share the news about local...
I have realized that one of the most important things that is missing is ‘community engagement’. Some of the major issues that are affecting our homes, community, state and the nation can be resolved when people get involved. I’m sure that you will agree that the issues of Crime in the city, Illiteracy, Funding and Education in school districts, Pipeline to Prison, Blight, Lack of Faith and Low Voter Turnout are issues that need to be addressed. If you agree with me, then I ask, what are you doi...
The utterance of two words can make the difference in a person’s day…..”Thank You”. I always say Thank You. It’s a way of showing gratitude. For example, when I’m going through the serving line at church or at a buffet, I always say think you. That person with that spoon in their hand has given up their time with their family and put off eating to serve you. So why not say Thank You. When my son played Coach Pitch baseball, his coach, Judge Marrow, would give each kid a piece of bubble gum...
Back in early 2016, might Hollywood have ever accepted this far-fetched 'TRUMPian Tale' for a movie? Let us reflect for a moment that there ac- tually has dwelled in our dis-United States a psycho-pathologically narcissistic, infantile, draft-dodging liar named Trump whose Wharton professor once pronounced him "the dumbest student I ever had," and who was given $400 million by his father--a former Ku Klux Klansman--to get started in business. This racist, ignorant, amorally sinister son of an...
For years, Sanctuary Cities across the country have been saying how open and welcoming they are to undocumented (illegal) immigrants. The mayor of Oakland, California, last year, warned undocumented immigrants that ICE was going to come through the city. An the mayor of Philadelphia was dancing the Happy Dance (literally) when the city council voted to make it a sanctuary city. So to help with the overcrowding of immigrants in border towns, like San Diego and El Paso, President Trump came up wit...
No form of lynching should be tolerated or permitted in America. A lynching is defined as putting a person or a group of people to death by hanging a person or group with or without legal due process. However, in the not so distant past, the hideous act of racially-motivated lynching African Americans was considered legal, judicial and moral under state and federal laws. The Congress of the United States finally has a bill pending enactment that makes lynching a federal crime. We support this...
According to Webster it is a tax on certain things that are made, sold, or used within a country. An excise tax, more commonly known as a “sin tax” is usually reserved for products that are believed to be bad for people, such as cigarettes and alcohol, or items bad for the environment, like gasoline. Will now the, ever popular, United Nations want to impose an excise tax on meat, to get people to stop eating meat and animal products. The reason? Raising animals for food is unsustainable for the...
