The city of Detroit fired its chief bus safety officer Wednesday after he blew the whistle on a top Department of Transportation official for allegedly showing up drunk at a transit center, berating employees, assaulting a security guard, and driving off in a city-issued car.  

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The former Vice President and Democratic Party presidential candidate visited the Fillmore in support of 107 Days, her political memoir of the 2024 election.

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On Friday, Jan. 9, Mayor Mary Sheffield addressed the city at a public investiture ceremony at the Detroit Opera House. The former Detroit City Council president, Sheffield, 38, is the first woman to become mayor of the city.

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Mary Sheffield, a political phenom whose rise began when she was elected to Detroit City Council at age 26, made history Sunday when she was sworn in as the city’s first woman mayor. 

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Before she takes office next month as Detroit’s first woman mayor, Mary Sheffield quietly got married over the weekend. The news was confirmed Monday in a statement by Sheffield’s transition team, Rise Higher Detroit. “Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield and her fiancé, Rickey Jackson, Jr., exchanged vows in a private ceremony over the weekend in Detroit,” the […]

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