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DETROIT - "White Boy" Rick Wershe is less than 24 hours away from his best chance at release during a prison sentence of more than 29 years. On Friday, the Michigan parole board will vote on whether or not to release Wershe, who is the longest serving nonviolent juvenile offender in the state's history. On June 8, Wershe went through an intense four-hour parole hearing in Jackson, Michigan, with two members of the parole board and Assistant Attorney General Scott Rothermel. ...The information provided by Wershe led to the arrests of family and friends of Coleman Young, including his favorite...

This installment exposes the worse of the Democrat mayors Chapter Nine: Corrupt Democrat mayors Frank Hague From 1917 to 1947 Frank Hague, himself a street hoodlum “made good,” was the Democrat boss of Jersey City New Jersey and its mayor. Hague literally punched and stole his way to the Jersey City’s mayor’s office. He was the absolute king of Jersey City and twice used “his” judges and fraudulent paid witnesses to falsely convict a political opponent (a naïve ‘reformer’) and send the man to prison. He frequently declared, “I am the law.” Hague was so powerful that Democrat President Franklin...

The argument against liberals ever being in charge of our lives can be reduced to a single word: Detroit. Detroit has fallen from its position as one of the greatest cities in America at the beginning of the 1950s to a perfect reminder of what liberal Democrats will do when given enough power and enough time to show who they really are. “The Motor City” had an unbroken succession of liberal Democrat mayors for more than 40 years and each of these men has contributed to the steady decline of their city. Acting in concert with greedy unions these mayors...

The Motor City shows that the era of big government, big labor, and big business is long gone.Detroit, once one of the nation’s most vibrant cities, faces imminent bankruptcy. That’s the headline from the report last month of emergency fiscal manager Kevyn Orr, issued 45 days after he was appointed this spring by Michigan governor Rick Snyder to take over the city’s government. “The path Detroit has followed for more than 40 years is unsustainable,” Orr said. “And only a complete restructuring of the city’s finances and operations will allow Detroit to regain its footing and return to a path...

McPhail announces candidacy for 2005 Detroit mayoral election 12/14/2004, 8:29 p.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit City Council member Sharon McPhail held a Tuesday evening rally to kick off her campaign for the city's 2005 mayoral election. McPhail announced her candidacy along with former Detroit Police Chief Benny Napolean, who is running as McPhail's choice for the appointed Deputy Mayor position. The pair has adopted the campaign theme "Elect the Power of 2." "We multiply possibility by two, we multiply strength by 2, we multiply hope by two," McPhail told supporters gathered at the rally. "Walk with...

Having watched Detroit self-destruct, I reflected this weekend about how it happened, making sure to retain positive memories, while being concise in my summary. In the spring of 1966, I was eight years old, attending Anthony Wayne Elementary, a public school with a 90% white and 10% black population. Detroit couldn´t have been a better place to be for a kid. The Motor City and the Big 3 (GM, Ford and Chrysler) were still on a roll, but there were warning signs on the horizon. AM radio station CKLW belted out the Supremes, the Monkees, and the Beatles. We could...