Hearing could oust Detroit mayor
DETROIT (AP) — Mired in criminal charges for months, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now finds his political future strapped to a little-used provision in the Michigan Constitution that allows a governor to evict an elected official for misconduct.
A fellow Democrat, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, confirmed Tuesday what had been in the works for much of the summer: A hearing will begin Sept. 3 to determine if Kilpatrick was seeking private gain when he endorsed an $8.4 million settlement with three fired police officers.
That deal carried confidentiality provisions to keep a lid on text messages that would reveal a red-hot affair between the married mayor and his chief of staff — a relationship they had denied during testimony in a whistle-blowers’ trial last year.
It will be the first time since 1982 that a Michigan governor has considered the removal of an elected official. The target then was a township official who drank too much, not the high-profile leader of the state’s
Relations strained between mayor, guv
DETROIT (AP) — Jennifer Granholm and Kwame Kilpatrick come from the same powerful Democratic political machine, both students of the late Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara.
Yet Michigan’s gov
Rise in poverty unique to Michigan
(AP) — Michigan was the only state where poverty rose and incomes fell last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
The statistics illustrate the uniqueness of Michigan’s economic swoon
Granholm moderates energy meeting
DENVER (AP) — High gas prices, dependence on foreign oil and concern over the nation’s energy future were on the minds of people as Gov. Jennifer Granholm moderated a town hall meeting Tuesday night a
» Full StoryNative son plans state movie studios
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A Michigan-born filmmaker’s entertainment company has announced a three-phase plan to create motion picture soundstages and production facilities in three locations around the stat
» Full StoryTeen sentenced in mob attack case
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — A 17-year-old who authorities say threw a brick at a car, sparking an attack by a mob of young people on a motorist in Mount Clemens, has been sentenced to 19 months in a youth pr
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