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No charges planned in probe of Detroit officials, nonprofit Follow Us Question of the Day     By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 21, 2021 DETROIT (AP) - The state has closed an investigation of Detroit officials and their connection to a prenatal health program supported by the city, Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday. No criminal charges were warranted, although the city could do more to improve “transparency and accountability,” Nessel said. Investigators responded to complaints that Ma...

The Detroit Free Press has settled its public records lawsuit against the City of Detroit for access to documents involved in a 2019 investigation that found Mayor Mike Duggan gave preferential treatment to a prenatal health program run by a woman with close ties to the mayor. The Free Press filed the lawsuit last year after the city demanded $222,667 for the records and estimated it would take about three years for legal staff to review the documents, which the city said totaled about 400,000 pages. Under the settlement, reached in late December in Wayne County Circuit Court, the Free Pr...

Share February 26, 2021, 8:13 AM The city of Detroit will produce some investigative records sought by the Detroit Free Press as part of a settlement agreement ending the paper's suit over exhorbitant costs and time assessed for documents related to the Make Your Date scandal of 2019. The city billed the paper more than $222,000 for documents related to the Detroit Office of the Inspector General's investigation that found Mayor Mike Duggan gave preferential treatment to the prenatal organization, run by a woman with whom he reportedly was having an affair. The paper's requ...

February 9, 2021 Worldwide protests against police brutality, an armed attack on the Capitol, protests in Europe and the U.S. against COVID restrictions– 2020 and 2021 stand out as years when those on the left and the right turned to both peaceful and armed protests to change the directions  governments were headed. Structural racism and racial inequality were at the heart of much of these protests. In its next webinar, the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) yearlong webinar series, “Racism in America,” will examine how protest movements and civil disobedience have sought to both en...

Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan's administration on Tuesday sought to tamp down a watchdog report that found excessive spending and a lack of oversight in a city program designed to help jump-start small businesses, arguing the report was "not in step with reality."  Detroit's Office of Inspector General on Jan. 4 released a report from its nearly 18-month investigation into Duggan's Motor City Match program. The review uncovered weak controls in the program for issuing payments. It also found that an abnormally high number of businesses in the grant-funded effort to support Detroit entrep...