This week the city’s ambitious alley repaving program kicks off. We can thank former City Manager Katrina Powell for putting this together. For unknown reasons – dysfunction? – city officials…
A big congratulation goes out to the organizers and volunteers of the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival. This year’s festival offered more vendors and another great year for enjoying local music.…
Last week it was reported that young male drivers are speeding and driving recklessly in the neighborhood around Pulaski Park. It’s also well known that this is a problem throughout…
Hooray for the Detroit City Football Club. The soccer team completed another successful year — in fact, a wildly great year. Schools Superintendent Tom Niczay said the relationship between the…
Hamtramck voters have spoken and wisely chose experience in Tuesday’s Primary Election. Mayor Karen Majewski handily beat her opponents by hundreds of votes, and council incumbents Andrea Karpinski and Ian…
A school board functions best when it can be a genuine link between the community and the school system. All seven members are responsible for working with the students, staff,…
One of Hamtramck’s most prominent commercial property owners has come under scrutiny in the past couple of weeks. A report in the online publication Mlive.com has stirred up a hornet’s…
It’s not often we talk about issues outside of Hamtramck. But recently Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, signed into law two very bad pieces of election law that will negatively…
It’s a new year and already we are off to a rocky start, politically speaking. City Councilmember Anam Miah distributed an open letter to the community making scathing comments on…
History will likely be kind to former Mayor Robert Kozaren. He was the city’s longest serving mayor, having been in office for 18 years, and he is arguably the most…