Detroit Adult Entertainment: Canton author pens story of overcoming abuse
October 18, 2009 at 9:37 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… One of the decisions I made when I decided to write the book was to be brutally honest,” Milligan said, sitting with wife Sarah in the dining room of their home near Beck and Cherry Hill roads. She occasionally placed a comforting hand on his back as he talked about his first book.
Milligan said he spent his early years in Ypsilanti — the second youngest of seven siblings. His younger sister verified statements Milligan made for this story.
Milligan said his late father left home when he was only 2 years old but returned, off and on, over the years, and the father was abusive to the mother.
During what Milligan called his mother’s “fits of rage,” he recalled times he said he was punched, kicked and hit with objects such as hammers, ash trays and belts. He said his mother received government aid but also worked as a prostitute to get money, partly for her substance abuse involving alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs.
“She was a prostitute as long as I can remember,” he said.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit City Council candidate Andre Spivey has a mission
October 18, 2009 at 4:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTo that end, he has been knocking on doors throughout the city, attending home meetings and making the rounds at candidate forums since the primary, trying to close the gap between a failed campaign and the ninth seat on the council.
Spivey sees a pragmatic approach to fixing what ails Detroit.
“We have to change, but manage the change,” he said. “You can’t change too fast, can’t change too slow.”
The change includes: encouraging regionalizing city services; cutting health care costs; selling off city-owned properties to get them back on the city’s tax rolls; resurrecting City Airport as a revenue generator for the city; streamlining the process to bring businesses into the city, and giving the Detroit Police Department the resources it needs to reduce crime.
‘That’s not my fight’
Recent discussions in City Council about curbing strip club operations don’t interest him. That might surprise some who know Spivey as pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church for the past five years.
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