By Alan Madeleine Perhaps you’re perfectly fine with your city as it is. Perhaps you’ve got no complaints at all. Perhaps, for you, it’s a bed of roses. Nirvana. Heaven on 2.2 square miles of earth. That might go a ways toward explaining why you weren’t there for the single most important political speech of [...]
By Charles Sercombe Pssssst … Don’t tell anyone – especially those pesky voters – but there’s an election here in Hamtramck next Tuesday (Aug. 2). YOU SAY WHAT? Hey, quiet we said. But anyway, yeah, there’s an election, a Primary Election to be exact, to whittle down the field of 13 City Council candidates to [...]
By Charles Sercombe Get your hydroponics and grow lights ready all of you medical marijuana growers and caregivers. Hamtramck is open for business. After several months of haggling and fine-tuning, the City Council approved two ordinances and a permit fee schedule to allow caregivers to set up shop and for commercial growing facilities to open [...]
The Aug. 2 Primary Election is just around the corner, and to help voters find out where City Council candidates stand on several local issues, we invited the candidates to participate in a survey. This week, we have only candidate Ian Perrotta. The following candidates have not submitted their surveys: Abdul Algazali, Abu Mahfuz, Showkat [...]
Last Sunday, Mayor Karen Majewski held her annual “State of the City Address.” Here is the entire speech: STATE OF THE CITY 2011 Welcome, everyone, and thank you for coming to Hamtramck’s 2011 State of the City address. Witam. Mire se vini. Merhaba. Dobro dosli. Laskavo prosimo. Shagatom. Welcome. Your interest in the city is [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the scoop and the highlights – as well as the lowlights – of the latest council meeting By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on July 26, and all members were present. The meeting ran for three hours. You could say that two hours [...]
By David Piestrzynski Special to The Review There’s no need to wonder whether the former St. Lad’s school will become a rotting, empty building. With the closing of Dickinson West Elementary School a few weeks ago, which had been located in St. Lad’s building, city officials were concerned about the future of the structure. The [...]
Since last week’s editorial of our endorsement for City Council candidates, there’s been a certain amount of flak we’ve received. We should say up front that endorsing this or that candidate always makes us more enemies than friends. And it should be stressed that our endorsement are simply that, our endorsements. It doesn’t mean we [...]
DTE Energy representatives attended a Ferndale City Council meeting this week to talk about why and how that city suffered a blackout for three days last week. Why should Hamtramck have an interest in this? Well, Hamtramck as well as the entire metro region should be concerned, very concerned. That’s because we share the same [...]
By Charles Sercombe Last week we left off at “Meet the Candidates Night” right before the question and answer section. The questions were submitted by audience members. Here are some of the highlights of that portion of the night. On the question of what changes should be made to the city, Roger Lamm would come [...]
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