RSS Feed from The Daily Tribune: http://www.dailytribune.com The latest news from The Daily Tribune: http://www.dailytribune.com website: all stories http://www.dailytribune.com The Daily Tribune Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:47:38 -0400 60 <![CDATA[Pianist Tocco, young prodigies perform for Musicale]]> The Tuesday Musicale of Detroit presents its Artist of the Year concert featuring pianist James Tocco, a Detroit native, former artistic director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

The concert will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, at the Max Fisher Music Center, Orchestra Hall. Tocco will showcase the works of Chopin, Grieg and Liszt among others.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:39:48 -0400 2015-04-21T16:39:48-04:00 2015-04-21T16:40:14-04:00
<![CDATA[Volunteers creating Victory Garden at Orion Veterans Memorial]]> Volunteers in Orion Township at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the local Veterans Memorial will be constructing a raised garden in commemoration of a tradition started during World War I and II.

The permanent garden - with help from employees at the Lake Orion Home Depot store and other locations - is being planted in memory of the gardens that families across the country planted during the war to supplement the war effort.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:34:10 -0400 2015-04-21T15:34:10-04:00 2015-04-21T16:36:52-04:00
<![CDATA[We want the roads fixed, but Prop 1 not the right way]]> I received a letter from Barbara Amble who supposedly lives in Davison, Mich. and is 81 years old. Who is she?

She wants the roads fixed, as do I and many of my neighboring Michiganders.

Yes, we all want the roads fixed. The question is: if there was a warranty or a guarantee on the roads from the former companies who did the work in the first place, why isn't it being enforced?

I am 68-years-old and have been paying through gas taxes since I was legally able to drive for road improvement.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:34:02 -0400 2015-04-21T16:34:02-04:00 2015-04-21T16:34:02-04:00
<![CDATA[GAME TIME: Game 14, Yankees (6-7) at Tigers (11-2)]]> GAME INFORMATION

Game 14: White Sox at Tigers

Time: 7:08 p.m.

TV: Fox Sports Detroit-Plus

Radio: WXYT-AM (1270)

Weather: 52 degrees and cloudy at game time, according to Weather.com, with a chance of rain increasing as the game goes along.

SERIES

The Tigers opened the four-game series with another one-run win, beating the Yankees, 2-1.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:40:57 -0400 2015-04-21T15:40:57-04:00 2015-04-21T16:26:09-04:00
<![CDATA[Fired Inkster cop, a Novi resident, charged for beating black motorist]]> A white Inkster police officer, who was fired following an incident in which he was seen on video beating a black man during an arrest, has been charged on two felony counts.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:19:19 -0400 2015-04-21T15:19:19-04:00 2015-04-21T16:13:56-04:00
<![CDATA[Newlywed Detroit Lions QB Matthew Stafford back to work]]> ALLEN PARK >> After sky-diving in New Zealand getting back to work could seem rather mundane, but Matthew Stafford is fired up.

The Detroit Lions quarterback was married on April 4 to long-time girlfriend Kelly Hall, then they flew to the other side of the world for an adventurous honeymoon that included bungee jumping and jumping out of a plane.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:09:38 -0400 2015-04-21T16:09:38-04:00 2015-04-21T16:09:38-04:00 TOUT
<![CDATA[Newlywed Detroit Lions QB Matthew Stafford back to work]]> ALLEN PARK >> After sky-diving in New Zealand getting back to work could seem rather mundane, but Matthew Stafford is fired up.

The Detroit Lions quarterback was married on April 4 to long-time girlfriend Kelly Hall, then they flew to the other side of the world for an adventurous honeymoon that included bungee jumping and jumping out of a plane.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:05:08 -0400 2015-04-21T16:05:08-04:00 2015-04-21T16:05:08-04:00 TOUT
<![CDATA[Cranbrook Graduate Exhibition combines disciplines, cultural ideas]]> The Cranbrook Art Museum is throwing open the doors for its annual exhibition showing off the talents of students graduating this spring from the esteemed Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Each year, the annual exhibition, and its accompanying "Open Studio" event, draws visitors from around the country as well as some of the largest crowds of the year to the museum campus in Bloomfield Hills.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:56:28 -0400 2015-04-21T15:56:28-04:00 2015-04-21T15:56:28-04:00
<![CDATA[Royal Oak crime rate drops 25 percent over past four years, fell 4.3 percent from last year]]> The crime rate in Royal Oak dropped more than 4 percent last year and is down about 25 percent over the past four years.

That was part of the message Police Chief Corrigan O'Donohue took to City Commissioners with the release of his department's annual report Monday.

"We've continued to see dramatic reductions in part A crimes," O'Donohue told commissioners Monday night.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:32:53 -0400 2015-04-21T12:32:53-04:00 2015-04-21T15:56:21-04:00
<![CDATA[Founder of Rochester Earth Day festival urges participation in holiday, green movement]]> The efforts of activists who pushed environmental issues into the public conscience in the 1970s should not be forgotten as Earth Day marks its 45th anniversary Wednesday, according to a local environmentalist.

Legislation like the <![CDATA[Town hall meeting in Oak Park to discuss May 5 ballot proposals]]> The City of Oak Park is hosting a town hall meeting on Tuesday, April 21, to discuss the two issues its residents will be voting on during the May 5 special election.

The issues include a statewide road tax proposal, otherwise known as Proposal 1, and a local proposal to legalize the sale of spirits and mixed spirit drinks in the city.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:26:30 -0400 2015-04-21T13:26:30-04:00 2015-04-21T15:52:08-04:00
<![CDATA[Royal Oak Beaumont to mark Earth Day with fair]]> Royal Oak Beaumont is inviting patients, their families, employees and the public to the hospital's Earth Day fair Wednesday.

"Part of being a world-class medical facility means enhancing the environment here on campus and inviting the community to experience that atmosphere," Beaumont retail food service manager Eileen Miskiewicz said in a press release.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:50:56 -0400 2015-04-21T15:50:56-04:00 2015-04-21T15:50:56-04:00
<![CDATA[The right's new claim: same-sex marriage is deadly]]> As the Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next week, conservative scholars have produced a last-ditch argument to keep the scourge of homosexual unions from spreading across the land: Gay marriage kills.

They're saying that legalizing same-sex marriage will cause 900,000 abortions.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:49:35 -0400 2015-04-21T15:49:35-04:00 2015-04-21T15:49:35-04:00
<![CDATA[Will influence of big money be a big issue in 2016?]]> For many years, Democrats have wanted more restrictive campaign finance rules, while Republicans have wanted to loosen restrictions. But it's likely that the 2016 campaign will feature more outside money than ever before, as millionaires and billionaires take advantage of an almost-anything-goes environment to buy themselves candidates and shift the race in their favored direction.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:49:32 -0400 2015-04-21T15:49:32-04:00 2015-04-21T15:49:32-04:00
<![CDATA[Monopolies in stock trading weren't so bad after all]]> The people who run Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund have discovered something. When stock trading is done in lots and lots and lots of different places, it can actually be hard for investors to get a good deal -- or at least to be able to tell if they're getting a good deal. Bloomberg's Jonas Bergmann and Saleha Mohsin report:

"'There's a rent extraction from all these intermediaries,' Oeyvind Schanke, head of the fund's asset strategies, said in a telephone interview on Friday.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:49:29 -0400 2015-04-21T15:49:29-04:00 2015-04-21T15:49:29-04:00
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