Category Archives: Politics

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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Flint’s man-made water crisis: where are the watchdogs?

Posted on January 16, 2016 by admin

By Joel Thurtell What a disaster the Flint water crisis has become. There was no need for tens of thousands of people to lose their publicly-provided source of clean drinking and bathing water. But government stupidity, folly, dishonesty made it … Continue reading →

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Props 1-6: How I voted

Posted on November 2, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell No on Prop. 1 — emergency municipal managers. Michigan has had an emergency financial manager law since 1990 that has returned many local governments to solvency. The constitutional amendment would give managers power to tear up municipal … Continue reading →

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Hey, Donald — you are full of what?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Thank God this is not a family newspaper. I can report exactly what Chrysler vice president Ralph Gilles tweeted about Donald Trump. Without resorting to #$&%! Full of shit. That’s what Gilles said. According to the Detroit … Continue reading →

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All in the family: Sarah Palin

Posted on October 6, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell As soon as John McCain announced Sarah Palin was his running mate in 2008, my sister-in-law, Anne Potter of Dayton, Ohio, started hearing from people who thought she was the spittin’ image of the wannabe VP. So … Continue reading →

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Guts on the floor

Posted on February 1, 2012 by hro50ta1

eviscerate vb 1. (tr) to remove the internal organs of; disembowel 2. (tr) to deprive of meaning or significance 3. (Medicine / Surgery) (tr) Surgery to remove the contents of (the eyeball or other organ) 4. (Medicine / Surgery) (intr) … Continue reading →

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‘What Nancy Pelosi knows’

Posted on January 24, 2012 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Mitt Romney wants to know ‘what Nancy Pelosi knows’ about ethics violations by Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker of the House. I’d settle for knowing what Nancy knows about her fellow Democrat, John “The Con” Conyers. … Continue reading →

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Why Republicans suck

Posted on January 19, 2012 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Aren’t there some nice Republicans? Are they all jerks? Have you ever seen a group of people more bent on helping themselves and screwing everyone else? This whole brou-ha-ha about Mitt Romney not releasing his tax returns … Continue reading →

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A “progressive” tax

Posted on April 20, 2011 by hro50ta1

By Rich Sob JOTR Fat Cat I don’t make any excuse. I’ve got lots of money. More than I could possibly spend. And I want more. But know what I REALLY want? Two things: no more class war, and a … Continue reading →

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