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Consumer Alert-

People who had an account with Hollywood Video, a video rental establishment that went out of business, may be getting letters from a collection agency saying that money is owed for past rental and late fees. If this is the case, for you, contact the Michigan Attorney General's Office and file a consumer complaint. This has all the markings of a scam. The Attorney General's Office will send a letter to the agency and your name should drop off the collection agency's list.

I-96 Expressway Rebuild

The Michigan Department of Transportation has a main objective of moving people in vehicles, regardless of the cost to the local community. One hundred and fifty million dollars is going to be spent on a rebuild of the I-96 expressway running through Redford and Livonia. It is an opportunity to maximize the return on investment to enhance the local communities, as they struggle with declining populations and economic bases.- Too see the proposal: Expressway.pdf

Community Statistics

In order to solve problems they must first be defined and in order to define them information must be available. Redford lives in an "ignorance is bliss environment". If crime statistics, fire rescue statistics, fire run statistics, how many people use a park, where drug use is a problem, etc. then everything must be O.K. That is not the case. This type of governmental philosophy only lends itself to letting the community be "blind-sided" by problems that the leadership never saw coming. The only benefit is it lets the citizenery think everything is fine and the leadership is doing a good job.Problems can not be defined without the information to define them. To see graphs of various community indicators - CommunityStatistics.pdf