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DET OIT -After year of
using racial politics to rally city
voters to hi ide, it ha come to
light that Mayor Coleman Young
doesn't wal the talk when it come
to putting hi money where hi
mouth i .
� ced wi th ch llengers in the up­
coming mayoral paign, and uf­
fering the 10 of former financial
backers, M yorYoung turned again saying that Young wa angered
thi wee to the uncri tical Michigan over remar 1 t week by NBD
Chronicle to bi t opponents and pre ident CharI Fi her III calling
their upporters. . on Young to retire.
And in the Feb. 14' u of the Young w further annoyed that
Detroit Free Pre ,reporters Con- . the bank will not buy any of the
stance C. Prater nd Bill McGraw 300 tic ets to the Mayor' annual
revealed that Young will withdraw fundrai er.
hi $3.5 million campaign war
ch t from NBD. ACCORDING TO the report,
The reporters quote unidentified Young ha om money in the
ource clo e to the Mayor a state's only African American
bank, First Independence, and
now considering depo i ting hi r
chest there.
In the econd Iengthly intervie
In a many week i th tbe
, Michigan Chronicle, Youn 1
out at mayoral candidates �Iu..e
Archer and Sharon McPhail,
McPhail upporter Dave Bin .
Young, ho has not yet a.
nounced whether he will see
See, YOU
BENTON HARBOR - Enterprise Zone i tbe
one answer to urban ills that both Democrats
and Republicans alike espouse. Though there
i . a of yet, no federal authorization for
Enterpri e Zones, the tate of Michigan has on
commercial Enterpri e Zone: Benton Harbor.
For the masses of unemployed in this,
Michigan' poorest.city, Enterprise 1.0 i a
joke. "Enterprise Zone is only forbu ines , it's
nothing for us," one of the city' .Enterpri e
Zone board members - one of the few city
ubi
CeremonyOf Ble Ing
W�DA F, � CIIzIn
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.Go\Qa" Patton, director of tfJe Isuthu I nstitute in Detroit performs
Libations, a ceremony of blessing during the NAACP Installations
Ceremony at Greater Gra�e Temple In Detroit Sunday, Feb. 14. Rev.
Wendell Anthony .and executive officers were swom in by Michigan
Supreme Cou Justice Conrad Mallet.
ctually HUn on tbe bo rd - told
th city commis ion, recently.
And for the city itself, the zone i turning
out to be one major headache.
Over $300,000 of delinquent taxes sits un­
collected, City attorney Robert White admitted.
in an open session of the cornmi sion recently.
Given the amount of delinquentcy facing all of
Michigan's citie , the situation may not sound
unusual, but the methods the city must use to
collect those taxes is di fferent.
. UNLIKE ALL OTHER real e tate in the
tate, property taxes on the Enterprise Zone list
are not collec d by cou urer
the y become delinquent ince the· propertl
are not listed on either regula tax rolls or.-after
three years of non-payment, on the annual list
for the county ale of delinquent properties.
Benton Harbor City Officia! must proceed
in court against each and every piece of proper­
ty u ing foreclosure procedure required of a
bank or land contract holder- a tedioUi
proce s allowing' a six-month redemption
period, and extensive notification steps, Attor-
ney White said. .
. See, ZONE, Peg A·9
EDUCATION
lANSING:-Technology for tudents is more thanjust
computers nowadays as people are moving from the
Industrial Age to the "Information Age".
For example, fiber optic systems composed of hair-thin
rods using light signals could transmit instructional material
taught in Lower Peninsula schools to the more rural areas
of the Upper Pentnsula=creeung a more equal education
for all of Michigan's students.
A student forced to be bome due to an illness could be
kept up to date through voice mail or a videotape produced
by the teecber that gives on overview of the missed lesson
chnology -r duc�- ....
if availabl
By JENNIFER MOU
C.plta, N.w. S.rvlc.
plans.
Equity in education bas been a problem in Michigan
because richer school districts with higher tax bases receive
more money than poorer districts � can provide more
. learning resources for their children!
"We currently have a system that has haves and have
DOts, particularly when it comes to advanced placement
courses, " said Daniel W. Schutlz, assistant superintendent
for educational technology and grants for Michigan's
��nt�fEd�o�
"THE STATE BOARD (of Education) is on record in
� five-year technology plan that techmlogy has the very
real possibility of reducing the inequiti that exist." .
The five-year 'technology plan produced by th State
Board of Education i for 1992 through] 7 and includes
22 recommendations to maximize the impact 0 chnology
in restructuring the school and to provide the leadership
and direction to education, business, and government.
Schultz said tbere would be more equity in the cxi ting
system and more information could be unleashed, to
students if Michigan implements the Michigan Information
etwork that Gov. John Engler..proposed in hi recent State
of the State address.
Such information networks, Schul tz emphasized, would
allow school districts wi th low enrollments to offer
advanced courses, information, and technology th L would
otherwise oot be available to them.
Courses and information could be sent to school that
would be unable to have su h curriculum due budgetary
or personnel limits. This would allow the students
receiving the additional instructiu-n to better compete with
their peers who live in areas that historiGally have the
advantage of such a evel of curriculwn.
0, STUD tatewide would be able to'
university and state libraries in Michigan and even other
tates for use in reports or other proje
Although this type "f inform tion link up would
especially benefit rural areas, it can also aid tuden in
S EDUCATION, A
Q�
How
WOll�YOU
get the
gun off
the,
streets?
LAVETTA L. TERRY: 'We,
have to start with the legls­
la ors. To control how they are
blought in the community.·
DIANE ILLER: "We have to
start removing the drugs out of
• the community. It would make
it less threatening. -
MICHAEL WATSON: "The
only.was is to stop making
them. No supply. N�
demand."
YALONDA' HARRIS: '·We
need rioter . laws on the s e
of guns.·