Reckless driving has become Dearborn’s epidemic

August 20th, 20221 DEARBORN — ​​Reckless driving has no doubt become the city’s personal epidemic and the revving engines and mufflers screaming like banshees throughout neighborhoods on a daily basis are now our perennial background noise. Sadly, the number of fatal accidents, too, do not seem to be going away any time soon and the keen interest...

City of Dearborn Heights to crack down on blight and ordinance enforcement

May 6th, 20222 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The city is planning city wide sweeps to address blight and ordinance enforcement. Mayor Bill Bazzi told The Arab American News that the city has been receiving several complaints about blight and ordinance enforcement throughout both the north and south ends of the city. “These aren’t new complaints,”...

Discrimination complaints forces city to revise confusing gazebo ordinance

September 22nd, 20180 DEARBORN – Inconsistencies in ordinances have been causing confusion among city officials, as residents who have gazebos on their properties complain of excessive ticketing and press administrators struggling to iron out the enforcement language, to find a fix. Although City Council members attempted to tackle this issue last...