Category: Justice
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Special Master: More Stuff on the Justice Dung Heap
The stuff is flying. And here comes the odiferous special master. It splats down to delay and dilute and otherwise undermine the constructs of justice. Decision makers only roll it out for special people and cases. And Mr. Trump is oh-so-stinky special; just ask any GOP of rank. If you are in a jam and…
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Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Royal Oak Comet Burger Today
One day soon might be your last chance for a Royal Oak Comet Burger. The iconic burger joint is to undergo significant change in September, right after Labor Day (a.k.a Arts Beats and Eats). At least a change in ownership, maybe keep the name, and then it’s those devilish details. With the Main Street Theater,…
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Coming of Age in Prison
Coming of Age in Prison was the topic of interest at the Birmingham Next last evening (11/18/21). Wendi Johnson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University, gave the audience a preview of her new research on this important topic. Ms. Johnson provided an insightful look at the lives of three Michigan men; each of them were…
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Michigan’s COVID19 Success Leaves Prisoners Behind
Michigan’s COVID19 success has been declared and the state has publicly moved on to important but less-urgent steps. Why is Michigan a national leader in prisoner deaths? We are better as a state with Governor Whitmer, and this is not an attack on her. Rather, it is an observation that MDOC COVID19 practices are questionable,…
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Will There Be an Election in the Fall?
Will there be an election in the fall? Not necessarily, not if you go by what Trump says and does. He will not accept the reality of losing. So, he will work to control the election by any available means, or halt it all together. He has alluded to this, and he can now be…
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A Tale of Two Zoom Meetings
Yesterday I attended two zoom meetings, one originating out of Detroit, and one out of Lansing. The contrast was stark. The difference in the way they broached racial disparity, a pandemic within the pandemic, was startling. For Detroit, these zooms showed that the pandemic has not changed anything except accelerated Black deaths. COVID19 has served…
