Since our story last week about a rumor that the Hamtramck Post Office branch is slated to be closed, we’ve been approached by a postal carrier. The carrier asked to remain unidentified – even avoiding a gender description – for fear of losing his job. What the carrier said is that the branch indeed will [...]
Hamtramck officials are on the right path in making sure our city receives an accurate population count during next year’s decentennial Census. Local preparations for the once-every-10-year national population count officially started on Monday with a meeting of the Hamtramck Complete County Committee. The importance of Hamtramck receiving an accurate head count cannot not be [...]
Tuesday night, Hamtramck City Council voted on a resolution authorizing a contract for the purchase $48,550 of video surveillance equipment by the Downtown Development Authority. Unfortunately the City Council agenda wasn’t published until Friday at 1:50 p.m., allowing little time for public input. The DDA’s agendas aren’t available to the public at all. According to [...]
Thanks to the Hamtramck Public Schools family and the city at large for helping make the last day of classes for Hamtramck Public Schools students safe. The end of the 2008-2009 school year brought a much improved and calmer dismissal throughout the district. Although not 100 percent shaving cream and egg throwing free, it was [...]
A very dear friend from Hamtramck sent me a note and several copies of the new Hamtramck Review, all of which I was very happy to receive. To the new, as well as former, publisher, Mike Wilcox, thank you for stepping back into the picture. We need you, and appreciate your support and participation. To [...]
The Michigan Anti-Bias Crime Statute, pending before the State Senate, addresses hate-motivated crime, which is very different from employment discrimination addressed by Hamtramck’s Human Rights ordinance. Neither state nor federal law provides local law enforcement with the tools they need to prosecute hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and other categories. According to [...]
Regarding the article about “The Little Wooden Bowl.” I thought it was good, however, I didn’t care for the article on immigration. I thought it told only half the story. The real story is about the crime illegal immigration brings to our country. We spend trillions of dollars on health care and schools, welfare because [...]
If you ask us here at The Review, it was $26,000 well spent indeed. That’s how much it cost the city to put an end to what we called Lake Caniff. Outside our office at 3020 Caniff, a sewer line had become so decayed, it prevented rain water from draining properly. The result was that [...]
By Kelli B. Kavanaugh Special to The Review The Detroit Zen Center has expanded its kitchen and now features gourmet raw food, herbal, medicinal Korean teas — and a food co-op that sells fair trade bulk foods and all-natural household cleaners and body care products. “It’s a tea house, organic cafe and organic co-op, all [...]
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