Category Archives: Kwamegate

Adios, Caesar!

Posted on August 25, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell One bigshot Detroit Free Press manager isn’t waiting to find out if the paper wins a Pulitzer for its lynch, er, excuse me, coverage of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s travails. He’s Executive Editor Caesar Andrews, a Gannett … Continue reading →

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ACLU looks into Wayne court file snafu

Posted on August 25, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell The Detroit branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has asked Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett to explain how the public can have access to files of the Wayne County Circuit Court. The court has been operating … Continue reading →

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Message to guv: butt out

Posted on August 20, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell It took a Wayne County Circuit judge to do what Detroit’s Sludgegate-tainted City Council members should have had brains enough to do. Butt out. Now it’s time for Michigan’s governor to realize there is only one proper … Continue reading →

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Kwamegate and Detroit’s presumption of guilt

Posted on August 16, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell For three hours, sanity replaced the spite that governs the ever-more-depressing courtroom saga of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Despite the histrionics of an assistant Wayne County prosecuting attorney, Wayne Circuit Judge Leonard Townsend flatly stated in court … Continue reading →

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Playing dumb

Posted on August 15, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Like everyone else in Michigan, I’ve been following Kwamegate pretty religiously. How can you not? The stories are everywhere, even when there’s not a story. Occasionally, when my reactions to media coverage become too powerful to control, … Continue reading →

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‘Freedom of information,’ except…

Posted on August 14, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell After all the hoopla about the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News’ battle to open more of the Kwamegate text messages to public view, I wanted to learn what the legal issues were. So I headed for … Continue reading →

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No files? It’s circus court

Posted on August 13, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Who ever heard of a court that works without files? Sounds like something Franz Kafka would make up. You know, that insane novel of his, “The Trial,” where a guy spends his life trying to make contact … Continue reading →

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Figuring it all out

Posted on August 11, 2008 by admin

Control. That’s what I wanted. Before we left for vacation on August 1, I wrote enough columns to post a new one each day that I was gone. Well, almost. True, I recycled one. Hey, Bob Talbert did that. Remember … Continue reading →

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Kwamegate + Sludgegate = elitism, entitlement

Posted on July 31, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell A few minutes after six this morning, having brought the day’s issues of The Detroit Free Press and The New York Times in and while I measured coffee into the java machine, it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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“Irrelevant” reporters?

Posted on July 30, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell [donation] Judges say the goofiest things. If I were Detroit Free Press reporters, I’d be mad as hell. Can you believe it? Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr. said the paper’s ace reporters are irrelevant. That’s … Continue reading →

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