Detroit Strip Clubs: Council should dance around strip clubs
September 23, 2009 at 6:13 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAt a hearing before the Detroit City Council on Tuesday, workers from the citys 33 strip clubs opposed the measure, with employees testifying that their jobs provide crucial financial support for their families. Are strip club activities demeaning and exploitive? Probably so, but so are a lot of things in society, including some advertising, that we dont ban. Many successful women have put themselves through college or law school by dancing. Its not, in general, governments job to impose a moral code on consenting adults. Closing strip clubs and pushing the activity out of regulated businesses and onto the street would make it more dangerous — and no less demeaning.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Leave strip clubs alone, Detroit City Council told
September 23, 2009 at 6:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLeave strip clubs alone, Detroit City Council told
BY NAOMI R. PATTONFREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
DJs, dancers and strip club owners went before the Detroit City Council on Tuesday, asking that the city allow them to continue in the adult entertainment business without additional government oversight.
Many said they are putting themselves through school. Others said they are the only providers for their families. Most said they have no choice but to dance.
“All of us are young. There’s nothing else out there. There’s no jobs,” said Valentina Anderson, who said she is a single parent.
For years the council and city officials have clashed over how to craft ordinances to regulate Detroit’s 33 strip clubs.
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The council hired Tennessee attorney Scott Bergthold, an expert in shutting down strip clubs, as a consultant, for $75,000.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Paparazzi sue Tom and Gisele
September 23, 2009 at 6:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe photographers say they had permission to take pics from property near the wedding site. Security guards for the happy couple disagreed, however, and demanded a camera and their memory cards, the photographers allege.
The suit says Brady and Bundchen were negligent in hiring and training the security team. It asks more than $1 million in damages.
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• Kevin Jonas (surprise!) has selected brothers Joe and Nick to be his best men at his upcoming wedding to Danielle Deleasa, he tells People. No date has been announced for the 21-year-old pop star’s wedding.
• “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Nene Leakes admitted to having an adult entertainer past. Now Foxnews.com is reporting that Kim Zolciak worked the Atlanta stripper scene back in the early 2000s under the dancer name Barbi.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club crackdown hearing draws dozens
September 23, 2009 at 6:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip club crackdown hearing draws dozens
Darren A. Nichols / The Detroit News
Detroit — The issue of whether morality can be legislated took center stage when more than 100 people attended Tuesday’s Detroit City Council hearing on the possible crackdown on strip clubs.
Workers from the city’s 33 topless clubs voiced their opposition to the possible changes, saying a ban on lap dances and VIP rooms would force them out of business and leave more city residents unemployed.
“I take care of my family,” said Omni Jenkins, 21, a dancer at a local club. “By cutting us off and making up all these rules, it’s going to cause crime rates to go up. It affects not only the entertainment community, but Detroit as a whole.”
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The city has settled two federal lawsuits involving strip clubs recently for almost $670,000. The clubs say they bring in more than $3 million annually to Detroit in property taxes and fees and employ nearly 6,700 people.
Detroit Escorts: ECORSE: Man at center of FBI probe locked up — again — on …
September 23, 2009 at 1:37 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsBy Jason Alley
ECORSE — One of the men federal authorities say bribed city officials to bilk the city of more than $2.5 million was jailed Tuesday on unrelated charges.
Sheldon Divers, 40, was arrested at about 6:30 p.m. in Ecorse during a routine traffic stop. He was driving with a suspended license — an infraction he’s previously been arrested for — as well as wanted on three outstanding warrants. His vehicle was towed.
Divers is wanted for cocaine possession by the Michigan State Police Ypsilanti post, for smoking on an aircraft by the Wayne County Airport Police and for soliciting a prostitute by the Detroit Police Department.
He’s being held on a $2,200 cash bond.
Divers was arrested in River Rouge on June 30 for driving with a suspended license and for being wanted on several outstanding warrants from numerous agencies.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Transcript of live chat with Fred Hall
September 23, 2009 at 12:49 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments12:06 Detroit4Ever: Mr. Hall, here are my questions: 1) What are your plans on DAY 1, if you are elected to office? 2) How do you feel about a Forensic Audit? 3) What are you thoughts about cracking down on strip clubs in the city of Detroit? 4) Name one incumbent and non-incumbent you would like to work with if you and those are elected to city council. (I am done and I look forward to YOUR, not anyone else, response. ) 
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(6 of 7)12:33 Fred Elliott Hall: Detroit4Ever. I do not want to open any more strip clubs. Also, I would like to see less operating in the city of Detroit. 12:36 Fred Elliott Hall: Sharon. We “right-size” by enticing people to move into the regenerated areas with a new, modern, home, tax breaks, and free moving fee. I am not in favor of eminent domain, it will be a slow process but we can finish the process in about 30 years. 1 …
Detroit Strip Clubs: Debating Detroit’s Strip Club Rules
September 23, 2009 at 12:49 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDebating Detroit’s Strip Club Rules
Steve Carmody
(2009-09-22)
DETROIT, MI
(Michigan Radio)
Exotic dancers took center stage at Detroit’s city council meeting.
The city is considering a new ordinance that will greatly restrict the city’s 33 topless clubs. Some club owners say the new rules may put them out of business.
A dancer by the name of Dream’ pleaded with the council to let her keep her job.
“I got a family. I got a family I got to take care of,” a teary eyed Dream told the city council, “We not trying to take you guys jobs from all of you. If you all could just reconsider and think about this again…that would mean a lot to us”
The proposal is backed by a coalition of religious groups. Richard Mack spoke for the religious group.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit City Council Weighs Banning Lap Dances
September 23, 2009 at 12:49 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit City Council Weighs Banning Lap Dances
Tue, Sep 22 2009 05:30pm PDT
DETROIT — City Council here is grappling over the language of a new ordinance that could heavily regulate the city’s 33 strip clubs.
The proposed changes follow a court battle in which a federal judge struck down Detroit’s strip-club ordinance where they could open up. The judge ordered the city regulations rewritten.
But the fear in the adult entertainment community here is genuine because lap dances and VIP rooms could be banned with the new ordinance.
Also dancers could be kept six feet away from customers, on stages at least 18 inches high and in rooms at least 600 square feet. And most club employees would have to pass background checks.
More than 100 workers at the city’s clubs voiced their opposition Tuesday to the full City Council.
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