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Big Bob Bashara is all over TV
but where are the facts of the case?

Folks have been asking us why we aren’t covering the Jane Bashara murder case like a blanket. GrossePointeToday.com is a community news and information website. We strive in our news items to follow the advice of Jack Webb on "Dragnet": "Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.” We are somewhat more opinionated in our columns. read more...

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Burns' Bashara column

Submitted by Pete Waldmeir on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 17:41.

While you're prancing your journalistic high horse up and down the high road, Mr. Editor, why don't you quit knocking the readers who feed on every scrap of info about  Big Bob's every move that flood the same social media you depend on to support your tax-free journalism experiment? No "facts?"  That's a joke. Why not  dispatch your budding young investigate reporters to get answers to the questions you claim are being ignored? This ain't Kansas any more, Toto. Forget the cupcake bakeoffs. Do 'em a favor and let 'em run with the big dogs for a while to see how it feels.

Why no arrest yet of Bob Bashara?

Submitted by Chester on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 09:43.

In response to your question of why no co-conspirator of Gentz's has yet been arrested, several news sources have reported that the Wayne County Prosecutor's office is waiting for his competency hearing in June prior to the second arrest. 

Grosse Pointe City discusses its future

It was like herding cats or watching sausage being made when the city fathers and mothers of Grosse Pointe held a workshop on what citizens want included or left out of the new master plan.

More than 150 concerned citizens piled into the Fries Ballroom of the War Memorial to vent their views. Most of them liked the idea of a movie theater or cultural arts center in the Village, but they didn’t want it to eat up all of Lot 2 behind Caribou Coffee and were concerned about one promise that an eight-screen movie complex would bring 500,000 people a year to the Village. read more...

Grosse Pointers hear history of the Coney Dog

The moral behind “Coney Detroit,” written by Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm is: “Greater love hath no man that he lay down his body for his fellow citizen.

Joe Grimm was probably a svelt 160 lb.Free Press newspaper editor when he started his quest for the perfect Coney dog. After 500 or so of the embellished hot dogs, Grimm, now, visibly showing the sacrifice he has made, probably tips the scales at somewhere north of 200 lbs. read more...

Grosse Pointers to hear Coney Dog history

If you want to hear a spiced up bit of history you should check out the Grosse Pointe Historical Society’s Frank Bicknell Lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Wednesday (April 18).

Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung, both newspaper pros at heart, will discuss their new Wayne State University Press book, “Coney Detroit.” Proceeds from the book will go to help feed folks through the Gleaners Food Bank. It will probably not be Coneys. read more...

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Coney Detroi

Submitted by Joe on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 09:40.

Thanks, Ben! We are really looking forward to being in Grosse Pointe and talking about coneys and Coney Detroit.

 

We hope you can be there. Many Detroit news stories have been powered by coneys.

 

Joe & Katherine

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