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Oct 30, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | James H. Dickson
You are dangerous. You are deplorable. You are a Nazi, voting for Literally Hitler. You are garbage. Sometimes, when you say it all, you’ve said nothing at all. So it was when Detroit City Councilman Coleman Young II joined me on The Pulse. Roop Raj invited us to talk about Donald Trump’s “Detroit diss,” his warning that under Kamala Harris, America would go the way of its dodo bird.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | James H. Dickson
Liliana, a student at Rochester’s Hart Middle School, had stayed up late on a school night. Not to gossip with friends or cram for a test, but to ask that the adults sworn to protect her at middle school would actually do their jobs. “At school, we have a biological boy using our bathroom, and staff blocking off our bathroom, restricting girls from entering as this biological boy uses our bathroom,” Liliana told the Rochester school board.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | James H. Dickson
I’ve been in the room with Gary Miles and done stories on Jocelyn Benson many times before. Both the Detroit News editor and Michigan’s Secretary of State are smart people who take pride in their work. I know who they are, but I don’t know what they’re doing. Two weeks before the most important election of our lives, Miles and Benson have chosen to announce their inability to the world.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Charlie LeDuff |James H. Dickson
Dearborn — Parachute artists from the out-of-town press corps have landed. It’s that time in the political cycle when they all drop into Michigan to inspect us like so many zoo animals. They’ve been calling me. Their question—without variation—is this: How will Dearborn vote? Their presumption is that if Muslims stay home, then Kamala Harris is doomed. While every person and every vote matters, Dearborn as a voting bloc matters little in the Mother of All Swing States.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Mitch Miller |Buddy Moorehouse |Bobby Mars |James H. Dickson
Detroit — The bartender at Sidekicks Saloon had to yell her recommendations to me, because the music in the nearly empty bar was too loud. “Evie’s Tamales for tamales, Tacos El Loco for tacos, and La Sierra Bar for trouble.” She said I would find everything there: drug dealers, bar fights, illegal immigrants. You can hardly miss La Sierra Bar on Panama Street in Claytown. It’s a commercial building that’s been painted banana yellow and lime green, surrounded by dilapidated homes.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Bobby Mars |Kaylee White |James H. Dickson
Woke up last week to find out my car window was smashed overnight. The passenger side window, nearest the sidewalk. Shattered glass littered the curb and filled every nook and cranny of the car. The contents of my glove box were scattered across the dashboard. Nothing was stolen; there wasn’t anything valuable to take. Just an immense, bothersome headache that took a week to fix, and tiny shards of glass embedded in every seat, impossible to get rid of without a pricey detailing bill.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | James H. Dickson
Pull a thread, any thread, and the Slotkin family quilt unravels a little bit more. This much we do know: There is a woman named Elissa Blair Slotkin. She’s a Democrat, a congresswoman, and running for the U.S. Senate. Everything else is questionable or untrue. Slotkin’s Green Acres is just a house with an empty field. There’s not a corn stalk or soybean planted at her Holly home, and there hasn’t been a head of cattle there since Jimmy Carter was president.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Kaylee White |Bobby Mars |James H. Dickson
In September, a high school teacher in Eaton County was arrested for trying to have sex with a 15-year-old boy he met on Grindr. The 15-year-old boy happened to be a detective who had been communicating with Waverly High School teacher Robert Herzing, 32, for months. Over the course of their communications, Herzing admitted he was looking for a “friends with benefits” type of relationship. He also said he was a public school employee who taught journalism and reading.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Charlie LeDuff |James H. Dickson |Bobby Mars
The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press have been evicted from their offices atop the Dan Gilbert-owned Federal Reserve Building in the heart of downtown. The mortgage mogul has decided not to renew the papers’ leases, after first agreeing to renew them. People inside Bedrock—Gilbert’s real estate arm—tell me they have no idea why the boss decided to swat the newspapers from their sparrow rookery. Reporters know little more. How does it come to this?
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
enjoyer.com | Bobby Mars |James H. Dickson
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, no stranger to more unorthodox feminist media campaigns (like creating her very own Barbie Doll, Lil Gretch) stunned in a new Instagram Reel this week. The reel opens—a pretty girl in a pink outfit (Instagram propagandist Liz Plank) is on her knees, eyes closed, smiling, waiting. She opens her mouth, tongue agape, as a single Dorito (Nacho Cheese flavor by the look of it) is placed directly into her mouth by a woman standing before her.
