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| Ambassador Bridge |
This just about pulls the rug from under all the "Elected Ones" in Detroit and the 2020 Primary Election is August 4th.
This should unravel fast.
The Ambassador Bridge is how everything goes in and out of North America.
Keep that in mind, the busiest international, southern border crossing in North America and port no one wants to talk about.
I can see Canada from upstairs....not really, but I do see John James and the Detroit Port Authority.
This is John James.
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| John James |
https://www.facebook.com/katie.hirzel?sk=wall
Kate Hirzel
'My apartment decided to do something very cool this past summer. Every weekend we invited interns, friends, classmates, etc. to our apartment. This past weekend was the last time all of my roommates were together, so we invited everyone who had ever come over the past couple months. What a wonderful summer spent with amazing people from all over the world. Ironically, I think I met more people from other countries than from the US while in our nations capital. Very fortunate and incredibly lucky. Sad to only have one month left-happy that this will become my home in less than a year 😌'
https://www.vistamaria.org/programs/
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0371373D:US
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/18951095
http://www.portdetroit.com/lorron-james/
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
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| https://detroitriverfront.org/ |
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority
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| http://www.portdetroit.com/ |
I also see the Emergency Manager Law, the fake ass Detroit Bankruptcy, and the Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Human Asset Forfeiture op.
#maytheheavensfall
Manuel 'Matty' Moroun, owner of Ambassador Bridge, dead at 93
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| Matty Moroun |
A letter announcing the trucking magnate's death was sent to employees Monday morning from his only son, Matthew Moroun, who in recent years managed the diversified holdings and worked to improve the company's public image.
The elder Moroun was the owner of the international trucking and logistics company, Central Transport International, and the Ambassador Bridge. Another of his companies also owned Michigan Central Depot, a hulking relic looming over Corktown that came to symbolize Detroit's hard times, before selling the station to Ford Motor Co. in 2018.
Moroun exemplified a mostly bygone era in the low, slow arc of Detroit's reinvention — a secretive mogul who used the levers of politics and contributions to influence policy making that could benefit his private business interests more than the public good. And that gave voice to critics on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
A resident of Grosse Pointe Shores, Moroun was a longtime political donor defined in recent years by his frequent clashes over property ownership and use in the Detroit area. Moroun and his son, Matthew, spent millions on a multi-year and unsuccessful legal battle to stop the state of Michigan and Canada from building the Gordie Howe Bridge further downriver.
"The bridge is a living thing," Moroun told The News in 2008, referring to the one he's controlled for decades. "It's become part of me and I think I've done a good job. It's my legacy. They want to steal it from me, but that's not going to happen, I promise."
Moroun was born in June 1927, the grandson of Hanna Moroun, a Maronite Catholic who fled Lebanon before World War I. Matty Moroun was the eldest of four children born to Tufick and Jamal Moroun.
He attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School, the only Arab in his school and perhaps the first to attend there. He majored in chemistry and biology at the University of Notre Dame. After college, he worked in his father's garage.
Tufick Moroun eventually added to his Detroit garage and gas station with the acquisition of Central Cartage, a trucking company owned by brothers who owed Tufick Moroun $8,300 for tires and gasoline.
By the mid-1950s, Matty Moroun largely was running the trucking company. And, a couple decades later, Moroun acquired a 25% stake in the Ambassador Bridge in order to expand his trucking company more extensively into Canada. He eventually acquired the entire structure for $30 million.
According to Forbes, Moroun and his family are worth $1.7 billion and are among the 1,600 wealthiest people in the world. Moroun ranked as high as No. 342 as recently as 2015.
The Detroit Regional Chamber expressed its condolences over Moroun's passing, calling him a "self-made success story."
"Born of immigrant parents in Detroit, he rose from a young man working at a neighborhood gas station to graduating from the University of Notre Dame and creating a billion dollar company," said chamber CEO Sandy Baruah. "With his passing, we celebrate his life and the family he built in Detroit.”
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