Mayor kicks former mayor off DDA
By Charles Sercombe The bad blood between former Mayor Karen Majewski and current Mayor Amer Ghalib continues to boil. In the latest development, at last night’s city council meeting,…
Speak up or wait until later
By Charles Sercombe If you want to speak to the city council during public comment, you better get there a little early. The council recently adopted a new rule…
City council should clean up its own act
Recently, the city council agreed to limit the time allotted for public comment at council meetings. The new rule allows for only 30 minutes, total, for the public to have…
What a way to end summer …
By Charles Sercombe Now that was a way to end summer. Once again, the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival gave us one more weekend to celebrate our so-very-brief break…
Mayor and city council object being near LGBTQ group in parade
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s cultural war continues to play out. This time, it happened at an otherwise-unsuspecting event: The Hamtramck Labor Day Parade. And, once again, it involved an…
NAYA has Lansing connections
By Charles Sercombe The curious funding item in the new state budget for the National Association of Yemeni Americas (NAYA) recently caught the attention of the Detroit News. The News…
A hardy ‘thanks’ to all of the festival volunteers
We can’t praise Hamtramck Labor Day Festival organizers and volunteers enough for their service this past weekend. Hamtramck once again racked up another successful festival weekend, and in fact it…
In Hamtramck, the Labor Day Festival is a labor of love
By Charles Sercombe It’s hard to believe, but summer’s end is coming up this weekend. And you know what that means: It’s time to throw a celebration. This weekend…
Time to get your dancin’ shoes on for a toe-tappin’ weekend
By Charles Sercombe The music line-up for Hamtramck Labor Day festivals has always catered to a wide-variety of tastes. And this year is no exception. In fact, it’s going to…
Mayor calls former mayor ‘Islamophobe’
By Charles Sercombe Although the Hamtramck mayoral election is now long-over, the battle between the former and current mayors continues. And it’s all playing out – where else? –…
