Tag Archives: Matty Moroun

The Matty warranty

By Joel Thurtell Detroit’s City Council is getting lots of pressure to approve Mayor Duggan’s deal to dice up Riverside Park for the billionaire Matty Moroun. People with no stake in the outcome of this issue are urging council to … Continue reading

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Professor mayor

By Joel Thurtell Butch Hollowell, Mike Duggan’s mouthpiece, claims there was nothing to hide in his private emails to minions of Matty Moroun last spring as city officials cut the land swap deal involving Detroit’s Riverside Park. If there was … Continue reading

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I’m ‘yellow’! No, I’m ‘red’!

By Joel Thurtell It’s an idictment meant to unsettle the nerves of any correct-thinking Journalist: I’ve been charged with Yellow Journalism. My accuser — whom I don’t know — sent me an e-mail under the subject heading “Manny Maroun”: Joel, … Continue reading

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Matty & money, again

By Joel Thurtell The pixels were hardly dry on my recent post assigning kudos to The Detroit News for publicizing billionaire Matty Moroun’s largesse to key political and judicial people when reality arrived in the form of a corrective note … Continue reading

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The bomb under Matty’s bridge

By Joel Thurtell Stamper downplayed more specific concerns about the Ambassador bridge: that a fuel station near the bridge might be a hazard, for instance — saying it doesn’t pose a risk now and is being moved anyway, further away … Continue reading

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Please don’t look at these pictures!

Here at joelontheroad.com, we believe wholeheartedly in recycling. To prove it, we’re re-running the September 22, 2008 JOTR story about my run-in with one of Matty Moroun’s shotgun-totin’ goons. By Joel Thurtell Matty Moroun doesn’t want you to see these … Continue reading

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Everything’s binary

By Joel Thurtell Some questions are like a light switch. Their answers are either on, or they’re off. Yes or no. Like my questions to Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel through his press secretary, back on January 27, 2009: 1) Given Detroit’s … Continue reading

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Matty to buy Riverside Park?

By Joel Thurtell Is the City of Detroit trying to sell Riverside Park to Matty Moroun? There’s a hint in that direction in a Monday, January 26, 2008 Detroit News article about the city’s dire financial straits. City officials are … Continue reading

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Bye-bye Matty?

By Joel Thurtell David Josar of the Detroit News called today to say he’s mentioning me and my blog in a story about the city’s attempt to evict Manuel “Matty” Moroun from Detroit’s public Riverside Park, whose boat launch the … Continue reading

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City sues to evict Matty from Riverside Park

City sues to evict Matty from Riverside Park 11/26/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell The city of Detroit Monday filed suit in 36th District Court to evict the Detroit International Bridge Co., aka the Ambassador Bridge, aka Manuel “Matty” Moroun, from … Continue reading

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