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Still Senator Hothead

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Still Senator Hothead 10/16/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell After watching the Obama-McCain debate last night (Wednesday, October 15. 2008), I went to bed with a very different impression of the last of these skirmishes than the take I got the … Continue reading →

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Monopoly, Detroit style

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Monopoly, Detroit style 10/16/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell They don’t get to pass go. They won’t collect two hundred smackers. Nobody issues them a “get out of jail free” card, either. The prison for most of the staff of the … Continue reading →

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How many goons…

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

How many goons 10/15/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell How many goons does it take to padlock a public boat launch? That was my question after visiting Detroit’s public Riverside Park on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. I’d heard that some vigilantes … Continue reading →

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Newspaper red squads hit again

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Newspaper red squads hit again 10/10/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell A top Detroit News editor recently ordered employees not to take part in political activity. The Newspaper Guild wrote a strongly-worded letter warning the paper that its effort at stifling … Continue reading →

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Unchaining the journalists

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Unchaining the journalists 10/09/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell Pretend you’re living in the United States before the Civil War. My Obama bumper sticker. Joel Thurtell photo. My Obama bumper sticker. Joel Thurtell photo. You are opposed to the practice of … Continue reading →

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Riverside boat launch liberated

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Liberated – Riverside Park boat launch 10/09/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell The padlocks have been cut. The boat launch at Riverside Park is open. That’s what Southwest Detroit activist Deb Sumner tells me. The bolt-cutters were hers. Five volunteers cut … Continue reading →

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The Conyers entitlement: Public servants = private lackeys

Posted on October 9, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Now the taxpayers of Detroit have to pay $90,000 to say adios to a city worker fired by Monica Conyers because the staffer was about to blab that the Mon was making her do personal chores on … Continue reading →

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Pistol-packin’ Monica

Posted on October 8, 2008 by admin

[donation] By Joel Thurtell I’m against the death penalty, so I don’t agree with Monica Conyers that child-killers ought to be executed. Dealt with strictly? Absolutely. But the Detroit City Council President is correct when she says we ought to … Continue reading →

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Equal rights for journalists

Posted on October 7, 2008 by admin

[donation] By Joel Thurtell Now some people will say I’m nuts for defending a reporter fired for wearing a political t-shirt to a political rally she was covering. I’m talking about the case of Karen Dinkins, fired September 21, 2008 … Continue reading →

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Tainted by my t-shirt?

Posted on October 5, 2008 by admin

 By Joel Thurtell I’m sitting here in my t-shirt wondering if this shred of cotton is somehow polluting everything I write because it has a photo of Barack Obama. Is it possible that unseen biases are creeping into my head … Continue reading →

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