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City invests in roads and water mains to keep neighborhoods in good shape
DEARBORN � Like many homeowners, city officials from the Public Works Department also make careful plans for improvement projects during the warm weather season. The Morley Avenue reconstruction project will start this summer and will continue, in phases, until next year. The work list includes storm sewer separation, some sanitary...Dearborn’s 84th annual Memorial Day Parade will follow its traditional route in east Dearborn
DEARBORN � Dearborn's 84th annual Memorial Day Parade will take place on Monday, May 26, and will follow its traditional route in east Dearborn: on Michigan Avenue from Greenfield to Schaefer. Event organizers considered the possibility of moving the Parade to west Dearborn this year, due to the reconstruction of the Greenfield...Wal-Mart opposition group meets in Dearborn
DEARBORN � The Wal-Mart Workers Speaking Tour stopped at the site of one of the country's newest Wal-Marts, Dearborn, on Monday to give citizens a first-hand look at some of the company's labor practices overseas. It was the final event in a day-long series of meetings for community leaders, small business owners, and citizens to...Duvall students ‘gotta have art!’
DEARBORN � The Duvall Art Club explored skull drawing with visiting artist Eugen Clark, instructor at the Center for Creative Studies (pictured below). Mr. Clark shared his talents with the students and took them through a step by step lesson on how to draw a three dimensional human skull using techniques invented by artist...Headed off to success
WARREN � Look out Democratic office holders! An up and coming young Arab American woman may some day vie for your job. Indeed, Fatima Mansour, an Eastside resident headed off to Michigan State in the fall, already knows she wants to be a U.S. senator. And she's been showing her leadership abilities for a while now. Fatima will...Cover the Uninsured Week in Michigan
Free Health Expo for the uninsured at Cobo Center Monday, April 28, includes health screenings and enrollment options for kids and adults. Detroit � Leaders throughout Wayne County including representatives of health systems, labor, business and government will launch Cover The Uninsured Week 2008 with a free health...Michigan schools sign pact that will help more military families afford college
LANSING � Members of the Michigan Legislature this week welcomed representatives of Michigan's universities to the Capitol, where members of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan signed a pact allowing students of Michigan's military families whose parents are transferred out of state to pay in-state tuition rates....Ficano encourages youth to be more involved in public sector
DEARBORN � In a new initiative to address the needs of youth and encourage them to be more involved in the public sector and community service, the office of Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano has launched a new program called: Meet your County Executive. The first session was held on March 27th, at Fordson High School. The...Dearborn boxer loses in Florida
But trainer says referee call was a mistake DEARBORN � Deep in his heart, Brian Mihtar knew the day would come. He knew not only that he would lose his first professional fight, but he also knew that one day he would be on the wrong end of a questionable decision by the judges. That's why Mihtar, a Dearborn boxer who...Online campaign for Palestine begins
Westland � As reports of constantly worsening conditions in the Palestinian territories accumulate, a new website is offering a proactive way for people to take action and put their frustrated energy to work. Five for Palestine, an online campaign created by a Washington-based non-profit, offers a clear set of quick measures to take...ACC teaches at Macomb multicultural fair
WARREN � In the real world, the mixing of cultures often leads to war and other types of strife. But the Multicultural Fair at Macomb Community College in Warren this week was a feel-good event from the beginning as students and faculty mingled with representatives from different cultures in the names of understanding and...A thousand people turn out for Palestine
Dearborn�More than 1,000 supporters of Palestine came together April 11 for an event that was both somber and celebratory of energetic youth in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1948 displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the creation of Israel, or Al-Naqba (the catastrophe). Craig and Cynthia...The fight that calls for something other than a war
Terrorists are not all the same. A gripping account of the talks that brought peace to Northern Ireland, published on the 10th anniversary of the Belfast agreement, begins with a useful caution: the experience gained in persuading the Irish Republican Army to swap the Armalite for the ballot box should not be applied indiscriminately...Petraeus points to war with Iran
The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East. Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee, has "fueled the recent...What is wrong with Egypt?
Not since the downfall of the British puppet King Faruq in 1952 has the Egyptian national will been so shamefully subservient to a foreign power, namely the United States, whose politics and policies are tightly controlled by Zionist Jews. Today, Egypt, which could have become an African or Middle Eastern economic tiger, is facing......
Time for Iraq’s neighbors to show leadership
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has once again set herself an impossible goal. This time, she is not attempting to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace � a task at which she has been spectacularly unsuccessful � but rather to improve the security of Iraq. At an international conference in Kuwait, 21-22 April, she is hoping...When Muslims need help
So the marriage has broken up, and you're feeling down. Or you're into a lot of self-defeating behavior. Or, or�. In any case, some kind of counseling seems to be in order. If you are a Muslim, does that have any implications for the sort of help you should get? David Hodge and Aneesah Nadir think that it......
Government goes into hiding
When Amnesty International and the British Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the independent Military Police Complaints Commission about the transfer of Afghan prisoners and their possible abuse, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that �There is no refusal to cooperate� with the investigation. But Peter...CNN downplays Israeli crimes in Gaza
The headlines say it all. CNN reported, "Israeli-Palestinian fighting kills 21." Who exactly did the killing is hidden. The article also used photographic trickery to downplay the magnitude of the crimes. The BBC's website read, "Day of Gaza unrest leaves 22 dead," but featured a powerful online video. One...Democracy is future of Middle East
Not many people know about the appeal that Akbar Ganji and Abdel Karim Sourouj hold for millions of Iranians who are eager to see change in their political system. Not many know that Syrians call the human rights dissident Riad al Turk "their Nelson Mandela." It is not well known that the Moroccan Fatima Mernissi and the Lebanese...Immigrants are important to economy
Editor's note: The following is a release published by the Immigration Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Tax Day would seem to be an appropriate time to inject some bottom-line reality into the long-running debate over whether or not immigrants in the United States "pay their own way" as......
Carter snubbed by Israeli officials
April 18th, 20080 But majority of Israelis agree the Jewish state should talk to HAMAS JERUSALEM (IPS) � Three decades after he brokered the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has become persona non grata in the Jewish state. Both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud...Yemen: United on paper only
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser is apparently the most famous Yemeni girl in the world. Last week, the 8-year-old went alone to a courthouse in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a and personally requested that a judge accept a petition against her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man. She also demanded that the judge compel her husband......
Understanding the six basic issues for HAMAS
Achieving a peaceful Israeli-Palestinian win-win situation is to deal with HAMAS in the total context of its actions. This means understanding that HAMAS represents: resistance, respect, reciprocity, reconstruction, rights and refugees. BEIRUT � The controversy over whether former U.S. President Jimmy Carter...U.S. and Iran holding ‘secret’ talks on nuclear program
Iran and the United States have been engaged in secret "back channel" discussions for the past five years on Iran's nuclear program and the broader relationship between the two sworn enemies, The Independent can reveal. One of the participants, former senior U.S. diplomat Thomas Pickering, explained that a group of former American......