Down the street in front of Pope Park, someone pasted up a mug of what looks like now former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, looking all thuggish. You get the feeling Kwame’s troubles are far from over?

I wonder how long it will take for Detroit to shake off this scoundrel’s misdeeds.

(It's now a few weeks since this post and readers will notice a comment from Melody about who this is. It's a dead rapper, not Kwame. So much for my knowledge of pop culture. One good thing, Kwame is now finally gone.)



You know, getting evicted is always a sad sight, but this is a new low. I was told a woman was kicked out of an upstairs apartment on Caniff, and this is how the landlord handled it.

For the record, landlords can’t dump the possessions of an evicted tenant onto the ground. This was done on Wednesday – before the rainstorm. The city requires possessions to be placed in a container, something like a dumpster, to make sure nothing gets wrecked or stolen.

You don’t see it in this photo, but there were pieces of clothing hanging out of an open window in the apartment. I was told they threw her clothes out the window. Nice, real nice.