In County Commission election, vote for SCOTT
This year’s election for county commissioner offers some interesting choices for Hamtramck voters. City Councilmembers Cathie Gordon and Tom Jankowski are among five challengers taking on incumbent Martha Scott. Commissioner…
Council should trust City Manager’s advice, pass Budget Plan
Passing a city budget plan is never an easy chore for the city council. But passing a plan to reduce the city’s growing deficit is going to be near impossible,…
Resistance to city budget is baffling and undermines recovery
For some reason, certain city councilmembers had a problem adopting this year’s city budget. Budgets are never easy, but this time around there was more than the usual confusion. For…
Time is running out for police contracts
It may be the best deal Hamtramck police officers, and their brass, can get. But the new contracts passed Monday night by the city council for the police department’s two…
Expanding fire service could bring in extra revenue
Hamtramck firefighters say they are working on a plan to save the city money. One plan being considered, although not aggressively, firefighters admit, is to take over fire service in…
Do local officials know something we should all know?
We can’t help but chuckle at the thought that four out of six city councilmembers are seeking higher office in the upcoming election cycle. There’s nothing wrong with local elected…
Setting up our schools for failure seems to be the plan
You seriously have to wonder if state officials are setting up local school districts for failure. According to Hamtramck Schools Superintendent Tom Niczay, all schools have to pass certain performance…
GM is not being a good corporate neighbor
Talk about adding insult to injury. As our readers know, Hamtramck is hurting awfully bad, financially-speaking. In fact, we are a hair’s width away from total financial collapse, and subsequently…
Cutting business tax could further harm cities
There is a tax bill winding its way through the Michigan legislature that could financially devastate cities and school districts. State lawmakers, or more specifically, Republican lawmakers, are supporting a…
In Hamtramck, street art is anything but ‘dead’
It’s an old saying but one worth repeating: art is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, people are going to disagree on what is a piece of…
