AltWeeklies Wire
A Six-Way Race to the Startnew
Detroit voters are less than two weeks away from a mayoral primary that has been overshadowed by an emergency financial manager and a subsequent bankruptcy filing. Metro Times editors sat down for in-depth interviews with the race's top six candidates to hear how each would rescue a city drowning in debt and apathy.
Metro Times |
Bryan Gottlieb and Curt Guyette |
07-24-2013 |
Politics
G.O.P. Smackdown: The Stakes Are High in Michigan Slugfestnew
Michigan's Feb. 28 primary could prove a critical juncture in the blood sport leading to the GOP convention. Should Romney lose here and limp away wounded, it could lead to the first brokered convention in more than a half century.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
02-23-2012 |
Elections
Why's the Detroit Mayoral Race Getting So Little Attention When So Much is On the Line?new
What's that you say? There's a mayor's race going on in Detroit? If this is news to you, or if you are vaguely aware that a mayoral primary will be held Aug. 4, but have no clue about the quintet of challengers vying to unseat newly elected incumbent Dave Bing, you can be forgiven.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
07-28-2009 |
Politics
Tax Fact & Fiction: A Closer Look at the Candidates' Plansnew
It wouldn't be an election year without candidates promising tax cuts, right? But who gets them, how much they are, what's the likelihood they can ever be made and what they say about each candidates' priorities are the bigger questions.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda and Curt Guyette |
09-30-2008 |
Politics
The Drive to Oust Detroit's Mayor Picks Up Speednew
The recall campaign has a total of 180 days to gather nearly 57,000 valid signatures to get the measure on the ballot. But, to qualify for the November election, those names have to be submitted by Aug. 1.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
07-22-2008 |
Politics
The Lost Cause of the John Edwards Campaignnew
His campaign manager, David Bonior, talks about what went wrong, and what's ahead.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
02-19-2008 |
Politics
John Dingell's Iraq Inkblotnew
It is odd that a seemingly straightforward piece of legislation could be a sort of political Rorschach test, with different people seeing in it very different things. But that's exactly the case with Dingell's timetable to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
11-06-2007 |
Politics
Rhetoric Shiftnew
Rep. John Conyers backs off impeachment talk.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
12-20-2006 |
Politics
Detroit Mayor's Alleged Extramarital Affairs Result in Whistleblower Suitnew
One of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's security officers and a former deputy police chief claim their careers were ruined when it appeared they might reveal the mayor’s "philandering," according to legal documents obtained by Metro Times.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
08-07-2004 |
Politics
Tags: confidential, Carlita Kilpatrick, Chief Administrative Officer Derrick Miller, chief of staff, Christine Beatty, deposition, Detroit Police Department, Gary A. Brown, Harold C. Nelthrope, lawyer, Manoogian Mansion, Michael L. Stefani, overtime, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Michael Callahan, Whistleblower Protection Act lawsuit
Arab-American Support for Bush Is Waningnew
A polar shift in the attitude of Iraqis toward their American “liberators” is mirrored in the political atmosphere among Arab-American and other Middle Eastern voters here in the United States.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
06-16-2004 |
Politics
