Meet the candidates this Sunday
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s next city election is just a few weeks away. The ballot features a race for three city council seats, three city charter changes, and another attempt…
Mayor Ghalib and former Trump official: joining political forces?
By Charles Sercombe They say that politics can make strange bedfellows. And for those unfamiliar with the phrase, it means “that political alliances in a common cause may bring…
New law has its critics
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck has a new law, aimed at protecting minorities from intimidation. But not everyone is welcoming the new law. For the past few weeks, the law…
Website calls for the firing of the HPS superintendent
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck is all over social media. One website about the city focuses on the Hamtramck Public School District, and, more specifically for the most part, Superintendent Jaleelah…
Tree grant coming this way
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck is about to get greener. We’re not talking green as in financial grants, the creation of more parks, or the worst dread in the world…
Street repaving continues to roll on for this year and next
By Charles Sercombe As residents on Caniff, between Conant and Buffalo, already know, the street is now open for traffic. After a whole summer of tearing out the old…
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…
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…
