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BY BRENT SNAVELY
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Rev. Jesse Jackson and UAW President Bob King greeted about 800 Ford workers this morning at the Dearborn Truck Plant in an effort to drum up support for a march in Detroit on Saturday.
Called “Rebuild America,” the campaign’s goal is to convince Congress to provide stronger support for the creation [...]

Clayton Hardiman | Muskegon Chronicle
For more than 20 years, it sat dormant — an empty storefront whose significance as a community voice was barely a whispered memory.
But 1877 Peck is back, this time with a name.
And the whisper is now a roar.
Friends, neighbors, dignitaries, well wishers and listeners, more than 100 strong, crowded around [...]

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Jonathan Oosting | MLive.com Jonathan Oosting | MLive.com

With one week to go before Michigan’s gubernatorial primary, Attorney General Mike Cox finds himself again denying accusations he attended a long-rumored party thrown by then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion in 2002.
WDIV, the Detroit Free Press and Fox 2 report attorney Norman Yatooma has [...]

Scott Martelle Contributor
Source: AOL News

(July 21) — Middle-class black Americans dipped into their retirement accounts to stay afloat during the recession at a higher rate than their white counterparts did, broadening the “retirement gap” between whites and African-Americans, according to a new study.
Nearly half of all blacks making at [...]

Democratic House Speaker Andy Dillon was endorsed today by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, while Republican Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder earned the nod from former Gov. William G. Milliken.
Bing announced his endorsement today of Dillon for governor at a news conference held at Dillon’s Detroit campaign headquarters — the same location where Bing established his [...]

We are happy that the President has made his way to West Michigan twice in the last months, first to Kalamazoo and this past week to Holland. Demographics are changing in West Michigan signaling the area is become more progressive.

The Gubernatorial Race is Heating up! In case you missed it House Speaker Andy Dillon came through Grand Rapids. Read Ms. Monica Scott article from the Grand Rapids here!
Monica Scott The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — House Speaker Andy Dillon, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, today brought his “Renewing the Michigan Dream” tour to Creston High [...]

Jonathan Oosting | MLive.com Jonathan Oosting | MLive.com

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants Detroit voters to have the opportunity to decide whether the mayor should run the city’s public schools instead of an elected school board and hopes City Council will reconsider placing the issue on the November ballot.
“It’s a chance for Detroiters to determine [...]

Marisa Schultz and Darren A. Nichols / The Detroit News
Detroit — The Detroit Public School Board is making their case before City Council today to ward off an effort for mayoral takeover of the 87,000-student district.
Board President Anthony Adams and Vice President Tyrone Winfrey presented the school board’s accomplishments before council members who will decide [...]