Snyder’s office says deal can’t be undone
DETROIT (AP) — The office of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says an agreement to build a second international bridge across the Detroit River can’t be undone by a ballot effort.
Spokeswoman Sara Wurfel told the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News on Monday that a constitutional amendment wouldn’t undo the deal if passed by voters.
Bridge opponents disagree. And they say they have enough signatures to let voters weigh in.
Manuel “Matty” Moroun, the private owner of the Ambassador Bridge, opposes the Canadian-financed span. His Detroit International Bridge Co. wants to add a span of its own. Moroun’s company is pushing a November ballot proposal that would require voters’ approval to build an alternative bridge.
U.S. and Canadian leaders announced the agreement Friday to build the bridge at no cost to Michigan.
Detroit riverfront
curfew draws attention
DETROIT (AP) — A curfew on privately owned sections of downtown Detroit’s riverfront is attracting attention following recent enforcement.
The Detroit RiverFront Conservancy requires visitors under age 18 who are on the property past 5 p.m. to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Detroit News reports Tuesday it’s a policy the conservancy says it hasn’t been actively enforcing, but Detroit police have been.
Conservancy spokesman Marc Pasco says the curfew began in 2010. Details are posted on signs at the RiverWalk. The general curfew for youth in the city of Detroit is 10 p.m.
Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens said officers aren’t specifically assigned to the RiverWalk, but they will patrol the area at the request of the conservancy.
Couple ties knot at demolition derby
IRON RIVER (AP) — A couple in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula got their marriage off to a smashing start over the weekend.
WLUC-TV reports Heather Benette and Dennis Charbarneau tied the knot Saturday ahead of a demolition derby at the Iron County fairgrounds in Iron River.
They’ve known each other for nearly two decades and, after going separate ways, saw each other again at a wedding in 2010.
Benette and Charbarneau wanted to get married in a unique way, so the ceremony was held in the middle of the arena before the start of the demolition derby.
They say their love, unlike the cars at the demolition derby, is indestructible.
Vandalism of Picasso painting videotaped
HOUSTON (AP) — Police have video recordings to help them search for a man who spray-painted Pablo Picasso’s “Woman in a Red Armchair” at a Houston art museum.
Officials say the vandalism happened recently at the Menil Collection, where the 1929 painting is one of nine Picassos.
Menil spokesman Vance Muse tells the Houston Chronicle that museum security officers detected the vandalism almost immediately, when the paint was barely dry. Chief conservator Brad Epley began repair work immediately, and Muse says the painting has “an excellent prognosis.”
Police have security video — along with a cellphone video taken by a witness.
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