Two key supporters of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are backing, or leaning toward backing, former Councilman Nicholas Hood III, alliances that hold both promise and pitfalls as Hood launches his mayoral campaign.
DETROIT -- Freman Hendrix, the former deputy mayor who lost a tough mayoral battle to Kwame Kilpatrick nearly four years ago, officially announced his second campaign to be mayor Sunday and promised to bring fresh ideas,...
DETROIT -- Sharon McPhail, the controversial former city councilwoman and general counsel of disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, says she's campaigning to succeed him and continue the good work of his administration.
The Rev. Nicholas Hood III, a former Detroit City Council member and city pastor, plans to announce Monday he will run for mayor of Detroit. Hood, pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ in the city's cultural center, will...
Why did Sen. John McCain pull out of Michigan? Knee-jerk voters. A new Rasmussen Poll said 59 percent of Americans believe our legislators are so inept, they'd vote to replace the entire Congress. I bet the other 41 percent...
Timing is everything as Detroit businessman and former NBA All-Star Dave Bing will attest. Whether sinking a shot before the buzzer to getting into the incredibly competitive steel industry as a novice to launching his bid to...
BY JIM SCHAEFER • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • October 12, 2008 James Thomas is one of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's well-known attorneys. Hackney is a 29-year-old Trenton resident whose family put her through a fine...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN (Nation of Islam)......JEREMIAH WRIGHT (Obama's pastor)......WILLIAM AYERS (Former Terrorist)..... TONY REZKO (Neighbor) KWAME KILPATRICK (Former Mayor) FRANKLIN RAINS (CEO Fannie May 2001 to 20004) BARNEY...
Lansing lawmakers emphasize Detroiters would make decision through referendum. A movement is gaining ground among Lansing lawmakers that could result in City Council members being elected from specific parts of Detroit instead...
DETROIT -- Former Mayor Dennis Archer on Friday said his wife, 36th District Court Judge Trudy Archer, did not have a personal assistant paid for with tax-dollars as former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had done for his spouse.