The 313 Project seeks volunteers for a big community clean up
The 313 Project is gearing up for a big community clean up on the East Side on Saturday, April 20 beginning at 9 a.m. The nonprofit group will be renovating and blight busting in and around 11001 Chalmers located off of I94, where it is currently using the $25,000 Home Depot grant it recently received to renovate legal aid, classroom/GED instruction, and youth and veterans counseling space. The Home Depot grant funds will also be used to renovate homes in the area to provide transitional housing for homeless veteran and youth clients. The group will also be cutting away invasive plants growing around the blighted homes; planting shrubs and flowers (and other general beautification tasks); boarding up at least a dozen homes (there are easily 50 empty homes in a one block radius of our target site) and other service tasks. To volunteer or for more information, email the313project@gmail.com.
State AG Schuette seeks criminal probe of meningitis deaths
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is seeking a criminal investigation into the deaths of 17 residents from contaminated steroids supplied by a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company.
Bill Schuette announced Tuesday that he asked the state Court of Appeals to order a multi-county grand jury probe of the New England Compounding Center. He said Michigan leads the country in patients affected by the fungal meningitis outbreak, with 259 infections and 14 deaths.
Three residents died after being treated in Indiana, so Michigan's death toll also has been reported at 17.
Schuette says there is probable cause to believe crimes were committed in four counties that have private clinics that administered steroids.
Wayne County sheriff, Benny Napoleon, plans run for mayor
DETROIT (AP) — Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon plans to run for mayor of Detroit with a pro-business platform to revitalize the city and its neighborhoods.
The 57-year-old tells the Detroit Free Press in an interview published Tuesday that he’ll focus on welcoming business expansion to support efforts to fix Detroit’s weakened public safety systems and help support better public schools.
Napoleon is a former Detroit police chief. He says Detroit needs to: “Make it quick, make it simple, make it safe.”
The interview came ahead of a formal campaign announcement planned for Tuesday night.
Several others have announced plans to run. Mayor Dave Bing was elected in 2009 to a four-year-term and could seek re-election.
This year’s mayoral race comes as Detroit's finances are being run by a state-appointed emergency manager.
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