By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck is all over social media. One website about the city focuses on the Hamtramck Public School District, and, more specifically for the most part, Superintendent Jaleelah…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck is about to get greener. We’re not talking green as in financial grants, the creation of more parks, or the worst dread in the world…
By Charles Sercombe As residents on Caniff, between Conant and Buffalo, already know, the street is now open for traffic. After a whole summer of tearing out the old…
By Charles Sercombe The bad blood between former Mayor Karen Majewski and current Mayor Amer Ghalib continues to boil. In the latest development, at last night’s city council meeting,…
By Charles Sercombe If you want to speak to the city council during public comment, you better get there a little early. The council recently adopted a new rule…
By Charles Sercombe Now that was a way to end summer. Once again, the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival gave us one more weekend to celebrate our so-very-brief break…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s cultural war continues to play out. This time, it happened at an otherwise-unsuspecting event: The Hamtramck Labor Day Parade. And, once again, it involved an…
By Charles Sercombe The curious funding item in the new state budget for the National Association of Yemeni Americas (NAYA) recently caught the attention of the Detroit News. The News…
By Charles Sercombe It’s hard to believe, but summer’s end is coming up this weekend. And you know what that means: It’s time to throw a celebration. This weekend…
By Charles Sercombe The music line-up for Hamtramck Labor Day festivals has always catered to a wide-variety of tastes. And this year is no exception. In fact, it’s going to…