Category Archives: Bad government

HISTORY ONCE LIVED HERE

Posted on November 20, 2024 by admin

Headline: A GOVERNOR’S PLYMOUTH TWP. HOME IS UP FOR SALE Published with permission of the Detrout Fre Press Byline:  BY JOEL THURTELL Pub-Date: 7/23/2006 Memo:  PLYMOUTH, CANTON, NORTHVILLE Correction:  Text: There’s not much action these days in the shady little … Continue reading →

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PICKING UP THE JUMBLED PIECES

Posted on November 20, 2024 by admin

Reproduced with permission of the Detroit Free Press Headline: EX-GOVERNOR REBUILDS LIFE Sub-Head: Byline:  JOEL THURTELL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Pub-Date: 3/7/1985 Memo:  ALSO RAN IN WAYNE WEST AND DOWNRIVER ZONES Correction:  Text: Almost a decade ago, state Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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A masterpiece of deceit

Posted on October 21, 2024 by admin

BY LUKE WARM PROFESSOR OF MENDACITY UNIVERSITY OF MUNCHAUSEN Students — I apologize for interrupting the flow of my lecture series on “Merging the Big Lie with the Little Truth.” But just today I was shown a masterpiece of underhanded … Continue reading →

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Diggs Standard for Supremes

Posted on May 1, 2023 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Staff Writer A former congressman named Charles Diggs spent seven months in prison in 1978 for what reportedly is routine behavior by three justices on the U. S. Supreme Court. According to the April 30, 2023 New … Continue reading →

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FDA approval of Alzheimer’s ‘cure’ a huge gift to drug maker

Posted on June 8, 2021 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single disease that afflicts a vast portion of the world’s population must be in want of a cure. According to the FDA, that single disease is Alzheimer’s, and the … Continue reading →

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SPIKING THE SUPER BOWL POOL

Posted on February 1, 2021 by admin

First posted on February 5, 2012 JT Revised version posted February 1, 2021  By Joel Thurtell I’m no sports writer, so it was neat to think my byline would appear over a Super Bowl story. What a drag that my first-ever Super … Continue reading →

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SPIKING THE SUPER BOWL PIZZA

Posted on January 21, 2021 by admin

Spiking the Super Bowl Pizza  Breaking news January 20, 2021 – In a parting shot at anyone who believes in rule of law, the now former President, Donald Trump, commuted the prison sentence of disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Current … Continue reading →

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CASS COUNTY ‘JUSTICE’

Posted on July 1, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL Police unions are taking the rap for defending lawbreaking cops. Police chiefs argue that they are powerless to fire bad cops. There was a time when top cops openly made the case for protecting bad police officers. … Continue reading →

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THE 1977 POLICE KILLING OF MCELDON TISDEL

Posted on June 29, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL She might as well have shot him herself.  The cops did the job for her. The victim was 28-year-old McEldon Tisdel, a black man  living with his family in a nearly all-white village in southwestern Michigan. Through … Continue reading →

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THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL — underground at the Free Press

Posted on April 20, 2020 by admin

BY JOEL THURTELL Thirty years ago, journalists at Detroit’s two daily newspapers were just waking up to the realities of the merger of their operations into one operation aimed at making a fortune for owners Knight-Ridder and Gannett. No, no, … Continue reading →

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