Local 4's Ruth Spencer answers more questions about the digital television transition that takes place next year.

Hundreds of windows are shattered by BB guns in three local communities.

The public relayed their thoughts on DTE's recent handling of power outages at a public forum on Monday.

The Detroit City Council has denied the sale of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel.

Old Tiger Stadium had its first date with the wreaking ball on Monday.

Scores of Michigan school districts will have fewer teachers and larger classes in the fall with athletics and the arts facing severe cutbacks or elimination as officials race to balance tight budgets by Tuesday's deadline.

The elected officials responsible for Detroit's well-being - mayor, city council, public schools - are all roiling from scandal, budgetary problems and a general sense that the folks in charge may not know how to improve their fortunes. If ever the city needed strong leadership, it's now. But where will it come from?

Mayor Talks About Coleman Repair

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Statement by Michael Casserly
Executive Director Council of the Great City Schools

The Council of the Great City Schools deplores the release of information published in Detroit newspapers today that is preliminary and incomplete and not finalized by the Council and the review teams.

We continue to process information to complete and issue a report to the Detroit school system on the teams' overall findings.

The Detroit Public Schools board appears poised to approve a $1.1 billion budget today that includes hundreds of layoffs and other cuts to avoid a shutdown of district operations by Tuesday, board members said Sunday.

GRAND BLANC -- Arnold Palmer phrased it best when he lamented once that the game's called golf because the other "four-letter words" were taken. It's masochistic torture, inspiring the inner volcano in all of us.

In response to the June 25 article "Students can miss class but still pass": Thank goodness my children and grandchildren are grown and out of school. If they had been allowed and chosen to take as many days off as they wanted and test out of classes that did not suit them, pandemonium would have reigned supreme in their homes.

Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most important civil rights decisions: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Bakke addressed the contentious issues of race and affirmative action in university admissions. Sadly, the case is still widely misunderstood and misrepresented.

It is absolutely appropriate for elected officials in Congress to explore the possibility that speculation is driving some of this year's incredible escalation in oil prices. U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak took on that task last week.

Friday is the Fourth of July, giving Americans a chance to honor their country by setting stuff on fire.

On the day after Christmas, when many Americans trade in their unwanted merchandise, the Lions traded in their coach, Wayne Fontes.

There's no compassion for Denny McLain. He has earned every ounce of vitriol spewed in his direction. He has twice gone to prison -- once for racketeering, extortion and cocaine possession, and another time for embezzling a pension fund.

More than 130 million Americans will get an economic stimulus payment by mid-July. I talked to five diverse Michigan households in April about what kind of money they thought they would get -- and what they thought they'd do with it.

So everyone has a gun. Let's start with that idea. Everyone has a gun. What will this mean?

Few landmark Supreme Court rulings have been so widely predicted as Thursday's decision striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. The mere fact that the court agreed to hear the case was a pretty good indication that the justices were itching to make some kind of big statement about the Second Amendment.

It is my belief that even the most mundane and boring gifts -- socks and underwear, windshield wiper solvent, a gift card to Red Lobster -- can be made to look extra special with festive packaging. A cute bow. Fancy paper. You get the idea.

The Pistons should hold off on big free agents until the summer of 2010, when LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire and Joe Johnson will be available.

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