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Obama
gives
away
$1.4M
Nobel
prize

President
Barack
Obama
plans to
donate
the $1.4
million
from his
Nobel
Peace
Prize to
helping
students,
veterans'
families
and
survivors
of
Haiti's
earthquake,
among
others,
drawing
attention
to
organizations
he said
"do
extraordinary
work."
Obama is
giving a
total of
$750,000
to six
groups
that
help
kids go
to
college.
Fisher's
House,
which
provides
housing
for
families
with
loved
ones at
Veterans
Administration
hospitals,
will
receive
$250,000,
the
White
House
said
Thursday.
And the
Clinton-Bush
Haiti
Fund,
for
which
two
former
presidents
are
raising
money to
rebuild
earthquake-ravaged
Haiti,
will
receive
$200,000.
"These
organizations
do
extraordinary
work in
the
United
States
and
abroad
helping
students,
veterans
and
countless
others
in
need,"
Obama
said in
a
statement.
"I'm
proud to
support
their
work."
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Successful
bond
sale for
City
Today
the City
of
Detroit
successfully
issued
$250
million
in
fiscal
stabilization
bonds.
The deal
was more
successful
than
projected-saving
the city
an
estimated
$1.1
million
annually
due to
lower
than
anticipated
interest
rates
and
bringing
in an
additional
$20
million
more
than
estimated
in the
City’s
Deficit
Elimination
Plan.
Mayor
Dave
Bing
said,
“Our
plan to
bring
financial
stability
to
Detroit
took a
critical
step
forward
today.
We’ve
worked
hard to
restore
trust in
our city
and city
government
and this
deal is
an
endorsement
of our
progress.
We will
continue
to
ensure
the city
is
spending
within
its
means by
eliminating
waste,
going
after
every
dollar
we’re
owed and
maximizing
efficiencies.”
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Groner
keeps
control
of
Kilpatrick
probation
case,
but
Chief
Judge
Kenny
will
assist
him
DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
Wayne
County
Circuit
Judge
Timothy
Kenny
denied a
request
Thursday
to
disqualify
his
fellow
judge,
David
Groner.
Former
Detroit
Mayor
Kilpatrick's
lawyers
claim
Groner
is
biased.
Former
Detroit
Mayor
Kwame
Kilpatrick
will
face the
Wayne
County
judge he
fought
to have
removed
from his
case
March 24
for a
probation
violation
hearing.
Judge
Timothy
Kenny
ruled
that
there
was no
improper,
secret
meeting
between
Circuit
Court
Judge
David
Groner
and a
prosecutor,
and
there is
no
appearance
of bias.
Kenny
also
said he
sees no
evidence
of
involvement
with
Groner's
brother-in-law,
a top
administrator
in the
prosecutor's
office.
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BELLE
ISLE
PICNIC
SHELTER
RESERVATIONS
BEGINNING
MONDAY,
MARCH 29
Are
you
planning
a family
reunion
or
picnic
at Belle
Isle
this
summer?
If so,
it is
time to
reserve
your
picnic
shelter.
The
Detroit
Recreation
Department
will
begin
taking
reservations
for
Belle
Isle
picnic
shelters
at the
Belle
Isle
Casino,
Mon.,
March
29,
through
Wed.,
March
31, from
8 a.m. –
12 p.m.
and 1:30
p.m. - 3
p.m.
(doors
open at
7 a.m.).
Reservations
for July
will
take
place on
March
29,
followed
by Aug.
on March
30 and
May June
and
Sept. on
March
31.3
Payment
must be
made in
full at
the time
of
reservation
with a
money
order or
cashier's
check.
Personal
checks
will not
be
accepted.
For more
information,
please
call
(313)
628-2081
or visit
www.detroitmi.gov/recreation.
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Women
are
winning
the race
in
leadership
DEARBORN,
MI (Tell
Us Det)
- Over
500
women
came
together
to
celebrate
the
growth
and
empowerment
of women
that
have
excelled
in
business
during
these
hard
economic
times.
“A New
You for
a New
Time”
was the
theme of
this
year’s
luncheon.
The
program
was
separated
into two
different
sessions,
and
offered
a
variety
of
speaker’s
and
events
to
encourage
women
that are
trying
to
succeed
in the
workplace.
The
first
session
was
moderated
by
Judith
McNeely
from
Oakwood
Healthcare
System
and
discussed
the best
employment
practices
for
women.
The
panel
consisted
of the
top
human
resource
executives
in Metro
Detroit
to
provide
insight
on how
to be
promoted
in a
changing
work
environment.”
Maintaining
a
positive
attitude
is a
must in
the
future.
Be
creative,
and show
flexibility,”
said
Cathie
Ruffner,
from
McGraw
Wentworth.
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MATRIX
HUMAN
SERVICES
AND
QUALITY
HOME
HEALTH
CARE
SERVICES
OF
MICHIGAN
PARTNER
TO
ENHANCE
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
Southfield-based
home
health
care
agency
to bring
skilled
nursing
to
Matrix
program
DETROIT
– March
8, 2010
– To
further
develop
the
continuum
of care
available
to the
Metro
Detroit
community
through
Matrix
Human
Services,
Quality
Home
Health
Care
Services
of
Michigan
(QHHC),
a
Southfield-based
provider
of
comprehensive
home
health
care
services,
is
partnering
with the
agency
to
enhance
its
Matrix
Quality
Care
program.
The
partnership
was
announced
by
Michael
Gilliam,
president
and CEO
of QHHC
and
Marcella
Wilson,
Ph.D.,
president
and CEO
of
Matrix
Human
Services.
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Monica
Conyers
disrupts
courtroom
as judge
hands
down 37
month
prison
sentence
DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
“I’m not
going to
jail for
something
I did
not do”,
the
words of
former
Councilwoman
Monica
Conyers
filled
the
federal
courtroom
of U.S.
District
Court
Judge
Avery
during
sentencing
proceedings
Wednesday
in
Detroit.
In a
surprise
move
Conyers
asked
the
court to
withdraw
her
guilty
plea of
conspiring
to
commit
bribery
in
exchange
for her
vote on
a
contract
with
Synagro
Technologies.
Despite
the
request
the
Judge
sentenced
Conyers
to a 37
month
sentence
she is
set to
begin
serving
July
1st.
Conyers
told the
court
she
would
appeal
the
sentence
and has
ten days
to make
her
case.
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FAN
GATHERING
RESTAURANTS
TO
WELCOME
2010
NCAA®
MEN’S
FROZEN
FOUR®
VISITORS
AND
LOCALS
DETROIT
- The
Detroit
Local
Organizing
Committee
(DLOC)
for the
2010
NCAA®
Men’s
Frozen
Four®
today
announced
the
Frozen
Four®
Fan
Gathering
Restaurants
that
will
serve as
home
base for
fans of
the four
teams
who will
compete
in
Detroit
for the
championship
of
Division
I
college
hockey.
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Focus:
HOPE and
Partners
to
receive
$3
million
to spur
neighborhood
broadband
adoption
Detroit
– Focus:
HOPE and
two
nonprofit
partners
will
receive
$3
million
in
newly-awarded
Federal
broadband
stimulus
funds to
support
broadband
Internet
training
and
adoption
by more
than
5,000
low-income
households
in
Detroit’s
Central
Woodward/North
End and
Osborn
neighborhoods.
The
funds
are
Detroit’s
share of
an $18.7
million
Broadband
Technology
Opportunity
Program
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Detroit
wants to
save
itself
by
shrinking
DETROIT
-
Detroit,
the very
symbol
of
American
industrial
might
for most
of the
20th
century,
is
drawing
up a
radical
renewal
plan
that
calls
for
turning
large
swaths
of this
now-blighted,
rusted-out
city
back
into the
fields
and
farmland
that
existed
before
the
automobile.
Operating
on a
scale
never
before
attempted
in this
country,
the city
would
demolish
houses
in some
of the
most
desolate
sections
of
Detroit
and move
residents
into
stronger
neighborhoods.
Roughly
a
quarter
of the
139-square-mile
city
could go
from
urban to
semi-rural.
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Massive
school
closures
in
Kansas
City
trumps
Detroit

In this
photo
taken
Feb. 28,
2010,
unused
space is
seen in
the
Board of
Education
building
in
Kansas
City,
Mo. The
district
will
renew
efforts
to sell
the
administration
building,
which is
less
than
half
used, to
help cut
$50
million
from
next
years
budget.
(AP
Photo/Orlin
Wagner)
Kansas
City
school
officials
promised
Thursday
to shut
down
nearly
half the
district's
schools
by the
start of
classes
in the
fall
without
offering
details
of how
they
intend
to
implement
the
complicated
plan in
just a
matter
of
months.
The
drastic
project
also
calls
for
cutting
hundreds
of jobs
and
shuffling
thousands
of
students
—
changes
that
officials
say are
needed
to keep
the
district
from
using up
what
little
is left
of the
$2
billion
it
received
as part
of a
groundbreaking
desegregation
case.
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Bridge
Builder
Dinner
March 25
Supports
Youth
Diversity
Program

Detroit
--
Generation
of
Promise,
a
diversity
and
leadership
program
for high
school
juniors,
will
hold its
Fourth
Annual
Bridge
Builder
Dinner
on
Thursday,
March
25, at
the
Detroit
Yacht
Club.
The
event
raises
money to
support
Generation
of
Promise’s
10-month
program
to
cultivate
cultural
awareness
and
provide
opportunities
for
leadership
development.
Sixty
suburban
and
urban
high
school
students
participate
in the
program
each
year,
representing
the
communities
of
Birmingham,
Dearborn,
Detroit,
Grosse
Pointe,
Southfield
and
Warren.
Reserve
tickets
at
geoghec@focushope.edu
or by
mailing
payment
to
Generation
of
Promise,
1355
Oakman
Boulevard,
Detroit
48238
before
March
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Slowly,
most
Americans
are
regaining
their
lost
wealth

WASHINGTON
(AP) -
Americans
are
recovering
their
shrunken
wealth —
gradually.
Household
net
worth
rose
last
quarter,
mainly
because
the
healing
economy
boosted
stock
portfolios.
But the
gain was
slight.
And it
was less
than in
the
previous
two
quarters.
The
Federal
Reserve
said
Thursday
that net
worth
rose 1.3
percent
in the
fourth
quarter
to $54.2
trillion.
It
marked
the
third
straight
quarter
of
gains.
But
economists
say
consumers
would
need a
stronger
and more
prolonged
increase
in their
wealth
to
persuade
them to
ratchet
up
spending.
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Mich.
congresswoman
called
to
Detroit
grand
jury

DETROIT
(AP) --
A
congresswoman
who is
the
mother
of
Detroit's
former
mayor
says
she's
received
a
subpoena
to
testify
at a
grand
jury and
will
"cooperate
fully."
U.S.
Rep.
Carolyn
Cheeks
Kilpatrick
issued a
statement
Thursday,
saying
she and
office
manager
Andrea
Bragg
are not
targets
of the
grand
jury in
Detroit.
She says
she will
answer
"all
appropriate
questions."
Notice
of her
subpoena
was in
Wednesday's
Congressional
Record.
Kilpatrick,
D-Mich.,
didn't
indicate
when she
goes to
the
grand
jury.
Federal
authorities
are
investigating
corruption
in
Detroit
government
while
Kwame
Kilpatrick
was
mayor.
He
hasn't
been
charged
in that
investigation.
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Homegoing
Services
for Ron
Banks
Announced

DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
Viewing
for
Detroit
native
"Ron"
Banks,
founder
of the
soul
group
The
Dramatics,
will be
held
Thursday,
March 11
and
Friday,
March 12
at
Swanson's
Northwest
Chapel,
Phone:
(313)
272-9000.
On
Saturday,
March 13
at 10am
the
Family
Hour and
Funeral
Services
will be
held
11am at
Greater
Grace
Temple
23500 W.
7 Mile
Rd
Detroit,
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Math,
English
classes
could be
standardized
nationally

SEATTLE
(AP) --
Students
across
the
nation
might
eventually
use the
same
math and
English
textbooks
and take
the same
tests if
states
adopt
new
rigorous
standards
proposed
Wednesday
by
governors
and
education
leaders.
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LINEUP,
TICKET
INFORMATION
FOR 2010
MOVEMENT
MUSIC
FESTIVAL
IN
DETROIT

Movement
Electronic
Music
Festival
May
29-31 in
Detroit’s
Hart
Plaza
DETROIT,
MI -
Paxahau
Event
Productions
announces
discounted
super
early
bird
weekend
passes
for the
Movement
Electronic
Music
Festival
Powered
by Ford
Fiesta
are on
sale
now; and
unveils
a
partial
list of
the
artists
scheduled
to
perform
during
the
festival
May
29-31 at
Hart
Plaza in
downtown
Detroit.
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