Detroit Adult Entertainment: Enter Your E-Mail Address to Sign Up
March 11, 2010 at 8:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsO’Keefe finally lopes into the Manhattan apartment, wearing a black newsboy cap and leather jacket. Only the stubble on his chin keeps him looking 25 instead of a skinny 14. He is as serious as Breitbart is goofy, as focused as Breitbart is scattered. All O’Keefe will say about his relationship with Breitbart is “He doesn’t tell me what to shoot.” Then he asks me to turn off my tape recorder, powers up his laptop, and talks us through his latest sting. I keep taking notes.
This time, there are no prostitutes involved, just a shady, and serious, tax-fraud scheme. The ploy involves the Obama administration’s 10 percent tax credit to first-time home buyers. The law says that the credit maxes out at $8,000 for an $80,000 home. But at the Detroit office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the rule seems open to interpretation. O’Keefe asks a staffer, What if I bought a place for $50,000, but the seller and I agreed to write down $80,000 as the purchase price?
Detroit Adult Entertainment: ACLU’s gay history
March 11, 2010 at 8:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsACLU’s gay history
Fifty years in, a look back at the Michigan chapter’s fights for LGBT rights
Originally printed 3/11/2010 (Issue 1810 – Between The Lines News)
In 1966, Michigan’s gay community faced many challenges. Undercover police officers regularly baited and arrested men in prostitution stings at gay pickup areas. Raids on downtown Detroit gay bars were frequent and their owners felt harassed. The gay community was fearful. Yet there was one organization willing to fight: the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.
“Miranda rights weren’t being read to people,” said Rolland O’Hare, ACLU of Michigan’s first chairman from 1961 to 1966. “Once someone was arrested, there was no appointment of counsel. It made sense to stay in the closet.”
That same year, O’Hare was approached by a man denied a promotion at a local automotive assembly plant because fellow employees refused to work for a “queer.” O’Hare, a practicing labor attorney, recalls that the discrimination the gay community experienced in those days was not immediately obvious to the ACLU.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Detroit: the last days
March 11, 2010 at 8:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsBut statistics tell only one part of the story. The reality of Detroit is far more visceral. My producer, George Hencken, and I drove around recce-ing our film, getting out of the car and photographing extraordinary places to film with mad-dog enthusiasm – everywhere demands to be filmed – but were greeted with appalled concern by Bradley, our friendly manager, on our return to the hotel. “Never get out of the car in that area – people have been car-jacked and shot.”
Law and order has completely broken down in the inner city, drugs and prostitution are rampant and unless you actually murder someone the police will leave you alone. This makes it great for filming – park where you like, film what you like – but not so good if you actually live there. The abandoned houses make great crack dens and provide cover for appalling sex crimes and child abduction. The only growth industry is the gangs of armed scrappers, who plunder copper and steel from the ruins. Rabid dogs patrol the streets. All the national supermarket chains have pulled out of the inner city. People have virtually nowhere to buy fresh produce. Starbucks? Forget it.
See the full article from “The Guardian”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Women rob man at gunpoint at local motel
March 11, 2010 at 8:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe man, 27, told police he met the two women at the MGM Grand and they agreed to follow him in their car to the Econo Lodge motel, 32703 Stephenson Highway, south of 14 Mile.
“He went and got a room at the desk and said the two women went with him to the room,” said Madison Heights police Lt. Robert Anderson. “He asked them to join him in the shower and went into the bathroom to disrobe.”
But once in the bathroom, the man told police one of the women pulled a handgun.
“He said they took less than $200 from his wallet and tied him up,” Anderson said.
The two women reportedly fled in a blue Dodge Stratus.
Police said the man wriggled free after he was tied up and called the desk person who alerted police about 3:45 a.m.
“He claims they weren’t prostitutes because money was never discussed,” Anderson said.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Get the buzz
March 11, 2010 at 8:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsAdams and his wife, Sharon, have worked with the Lindsay Heights/Walnut Way neighborhood organizations in Milwaukee for the past 15 years. The Walnut Way Conservation Corp. is a nonprofit organization with a mission “to sustain economically diverse and abundant communities through civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and ventures for prosperity.” In practice that means, urban agriculture, job training, business ventures, youth education, fighting blight and crime, and more. There’s a lot more than beekeeping going on there.
The Walnut Way Neighborhood Center (walnutway.org) is housed in a former drug-house murder site. What has been accomplished in the area in the 12 years since the organization incorporated gives me hope that we can turn things around here in Detroit — if community groups can move forward in cooperation with city government.
The Walnut Way neighborhood suffered from the usual litany of urban woes: drugs, home invasions, prostitution, abandoned houses. But now, according to Adams and the Walnut Way website, the gunfire, drug trafficking and prostitution have virtually disappeared from the nei …
Detroit Strip Clubs: Monica Conyers gets 37 months for bribes, vows appeal
March 11, 2010 at 6:37 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCohn, who said Conyers must also serve two years of probation after her release, said she does not have to report to prison before July 1, allowing her time “to get her affairs in order.”
Conyers, 45, admitted in June she took at least $6,000 in cash bribes in connection with her vote on the $1.2 billion contract the council awarded to Synagro Technologies Inc. of Texas in 2007. She had originally spoken out against the controversial deal, but her vote proved to be the deciding one as the contract passed 5-4.
‘Relevant conduct’ counted
Part of the controversy over her attempted plea withdrawal stemmed from Cohn’s comments that he would consider other “relevant conduct,” such as alleged shakedowns of a strip club, a technology company and a real estate developer with matters before the City Council or the General Retirement System, where Conyers sat as a trustee.
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