Detroit Informer

Detroit — Mayoral candidate Mike Duggan said Wednesday he’s continuing his fight to keep his name on the August ballot in the wake of a Wayne County Circuit Court judge’s ruling that he’s ineligible to run because he violated the City Charter’s residency Full News here – Metro/State News RSS from The Detroit News

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Former Congressman Mark Schauer says he is running for governor, and Michigan Republicans say they are unimpressed. Full News here – Detroit News

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Sherri Welch – The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau this month is launching a new campaign to market the region as “Detroit: America’s Great Comeback City.” It’s hired Troy-based Simons Michelson Zieve Inc., which does business as SMZ, to develop the campaign. Full News here – Crain’s Detroit Business – Latest News

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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing will hold a press conference to discuss his ‘Active and Safe Campaign,’ Wednesday morning. Full News here – Detroit | WXYZ

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Sherri Welch – United Way for Southeastern Michigan said it has raised $ 35.1 million in its 2012-2013 annual workplace and individual giving campaign, up 11 percent from the amount it raised last year. Full News here – Crain’s Detroit Business – Latest News

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His plantar fasciitis has a couple of premier big men in the East sitting out in Chicago's Joakim Noah and Washington's Nene. Not to mention Knight just got his broken nose reset — the second time he's had that happen in two years. Full News here – Detroit Pistons RSS from The Detroit News

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Community groups and Occupy Detroit using “any means necessary” to save homes from foreclosure. Video Rating: 4 / 5

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DETROIT, MI – The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue (IADS), the last freestanding synagogue in Detroit, launched this week a fundraising campaign with a $ 60,000 goal. The funds will be used to match $ 60,000 raised from private donors and will go toward interior and exterior improves to the 92-year-old building in the city’s Capitol [...]

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Duggan, a former Wayne County Prosecutor who quit his job as Detroit Medical Center CEO at the end of 2012 to focus on running for mayor, has been visiting Detroit homes and doing interviews over the past several months after announcing ‘in September he was exploring a run. Full News here – Detroit News

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At a candlelight vigil to mark 17-year-old Michael Camilleri's passing, friends of the Walled Lake Western High School senior gathered together on the stadium field a couple of Sunday nights ago. Full News here – Schools RSS from The Detroit News

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At a candlelight vigil to mark 17-year-old Michael Camilleri's passing, friends of the Walled Lake Western High School senior gathered together on the stadium field a couple of Sunday nights ago. Full News here – Detroit News columnists RSS from The Detroit News

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Detroit Fire Fighters Kick off Toys For Tots Campaign Bring your generous gift of a new toy to any Detroit Fire Engine house through the month of December and they'll see to it that it gets to a child who will appreciate it. Toys for Tots is a national program to help children across the [...]

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The Michigan secretary of state’s office is announcing that a campaign finance application is now available on the Android smartphone platform. Full News here – Detroit News

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The Party Platform features a summit of Detroit’s wiry young turk type rapping class bringing their post-oughts oddball-ish sweetly-acerbic and genre-jostling rhyme spills into an Irish Pup of all places -ostensibly to toast the end of the painful campaign season- and more visibly the prop the release of a new single by party head JP [...]

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Campaign signs are part of every election cycle.  Brightly colored lawn signs urge voters to cast their ballots one way or another. They have been part of our landscape since summer — outlasting poppies and petunias. Recycling Old Campaign Signs Now the election is over and it’s time for the signs to disappear.  tossing them [...]

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