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Ilitch, 55, bills herself as a self-made businesswoman. Also trained as a lawyer, Ilitch worked for her family's pizza and sports enterprise before launching her own jewelry company. She also co-owns a local lifestyle magazine called Ambassador. She is a fixture on Detroit's civic scene, joining Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's transition team last year and frequently challenging some of his top advisers to make deeper budget cuts. "She zeroed in on the finance piece as her baby, trying to get them to think through how to make immediate cuts," recalls a person familiar with...
...would be a major long shot,” Robert Winters, who maintains the political commentary website the Cambridge Civic Journal, said last week about Decker’s possible candidacy. “I don’t think she’s well known outside this district...
...uncommon that there's no definitive vote on the first attempt," said Robert Winters, local pundit and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal who also teaches at the Harvard Extension School...
According to Robert Winters—creator of the Cambridge Civic Journal, a website that comments on local politics—an early special election, which he said probably could not take place until late February or March, would be most beneficial to Flaherty, who has run for this seat before and garnered regional name recognition...
...first task: building a carport to shelter his newly purchased Honda Civic...