Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Majestic Star Casino LLC, the owner of two side-by-side floating casinos in Gary , has sought bankruptcy protection from creditors about three weeks after senior secured lenders called a default and demanded to be repaid $79.3 million in debt. Monday's Chapter 11 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, stemmed from increasing competition and the drop in consumer spending brought on...
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In reply to Daily Trading & Social Commentary for Nov. 5 : If you are talking about mid west America or some other place where salaries and benefits of public workers are on par with the private sector, fine. That is not the case in lower New York State and not the case nationally with respect to federal employees, including teachers and cops. I am saying that, generally speaking, public sector...
Porter County Politics (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
On this sunny autumn day in Northwest Indiana, residents of Porter and St Joseph counties are voting in the RTA referendum to form a regional transportation authority, which may then impose an income tax of .25% to begin merging and funding transportation solutions for the region. Lake and LaPorte counties are disregarding the law and have decided not to stage the vote, with lots of legal and court...
The Irish Savant (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Those you who’ve read my post on the Hurricane Katrina anniversary will know what a, well, storm it provoked from some people. What particularly hit home was when I quoted Jared Taylor to the effect that “many whites will realize—some for the first time—that we have Africa in our midst, that utterly alien Africa of road-side corpses, cruelty, and anarchy that they thought could...
FreddyO.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Who the hell decided to give Joe Jackson $10,000??? Apparently Joe Jackson was awarded a check for $10,000 from the Brenden Theatre Corp, to help begin the starting process on his plans for a performing arts center and a Jackson family museum in the Jackson hometown of Gary, Indiana. Being that the money was given to [...]
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
$10,000 has been given to handful of men, including Michael Jackson’s father Joe Jackson to start a Jackson family museum and performing arts centre in Michael’s family hometown of Gary, Indiana. Last night Joe Jackson met up with the mayor of the town, Mayor Rudy Clay to announce the construction of the building, and what a [...]
Glitterati (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Michael Jackson's dad, Joseph Jackson, and the Mayor of the family's hometown of Gary, Indiana, Rudy Clay, are making plans to build a large tribute complex around the family's former home. Mayor Clay is said to currently be in Las...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Chicago Breaking News reports that Gary, Indiana Mayor Rudy Clay announced fundraising plans for a Michael Jackson museum. The onetime King of Pop was born in Gary and spent his early childhood there. Well, I would have a little more confidence in the project if plans for it were announced in the Northwest Indiana city, not Las Vegas. Details are sketchy, but besides the museum, the endeavor includes...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Four months after his son's surprise death Joe Jackson has said he intends to lead an effort to build a Michael Jackson museum in the family's hometown of Gary Indiana.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Mourners at Michael Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Indiana; AP Photo/John Smierciak Get ready, Michael Jackson fans. Even as the movie This is It hits screens , Gary, Indiana mayor Rudy Clay may announce plans today for a Michael Jackson museum to be built in the singer's hometown. Problem is, no one else knows much about it. Mayor Clay is currently in Las Vegas with the singer's father, Joe Jackson,...
Slog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Theater Communications Group has just released a snapshot survey of theaters around the country. The results are not good. • Around half of theatres surveyed ended or anticipate ending their fiscal year in a deficit situation; • For nearly half of the theatres, their year-end result was worse than their original budget (i.e., their surplus was less, their deficit was more or they thought...
Latest press releases (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Frankie Mae Tyson from Gary, Indiana grew up a few blocks from world entertainer, Michael Joseph Jackson. She never doubted her future with the Superstar. Was Frankie Mae's relationship with world superstar Michael Jackson fact or fiction?
hamid & company (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Dike Blair With Steel Stillman By Steel Stillman 9/18/09 Dike Blair is having a good year: in April he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the visual arts, and this month a major exhibition of his work, “Now and Again,” opens at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, in Greensboro, N.C. The show, Blair’s first museum solo, is organized by Weatherspoon curator Xandra Eden and is accompanied...
BEATS and RANTS 2.2 (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
It's never too late to honor the King of Pop Michael Jackson. My favorite music magazine Wax Poetics pays tribute to the late singer in their current issue, which is available HERE. The mag features an in-depth interview with MJ's songwriters, his history with Motown Records and explores Michael's hometown of Gary, Indiana. In the meantime, check out this song from the remix project, Michael...
Hall of Record (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
SEARCH BLOG: DETROIT A recent post about the dissolution of Detroit elicited the following response: So, the city of Detroit is screwed up, that is not new news. What point are you trying to make here? Also, while the beginnings of the problem go back to the riots, what is the point of noting the corrupt "black" government. What "color" government do you expect in a city that is...
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