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Kwame Kilpatrick Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Vicki Mabrey reports: Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit’s embattled mayor, has finally left the building. The Manoogian Mansion, to be exact. That's the name of the 4,000-square-foot Italian- and Spanish-influenced residence where Detroit's mayors live. The mansion, built in 1928 for $300,000,...

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September 22, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (11)

Banker's Honor

With Lehman Brothers imploding on Monday, and the market spiraling downward, my friend Deborah Lawrence Botham e-mailed to say she'd enjoyed my post on greed. In the course of that e-mail she wrote a couple of lines about her late...

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September 17, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Is Greed Good?

That mythic creation of the go-go '80s, the character Gordon Gekko in the film "Wall Street," said it is. I would beg to differ. I started thinking about this when a friend from California found this in her inbox: "Remember...

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September 15, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (20)

Foreclosure Lists Used to Prevent Voter Fraud?

Vicki Mabrey reports: As if people about to lose their homes don't have enough to worry about, here comes this controversy: an alleged plan by Michigan Republican Party officials to use foreclosure lists to make sure there's no voter fraud....

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September 12, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (14)