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Birmingham commission sets new meeting time
Birmingham City Commission meetings will be starting, and potentially ending, earlier after commissioners voted to adopt an ordinance amendment during the Monday, November 17, meeting, changing the meeting start times to 7 p.m. and setting a meeting end time for midnight.
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District court budget approved by township
The 2026 budget for the 48th District Court was approved by the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees on Monday, November 24.
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Tasers for police officers replaced by board
Bloomfield Township Trustees on Monday, November 24, unanimously approved a 10-year contract with the Axon Enterprise company to replace outdated tasers for the police department.
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New contract approved for Birmingham BPOA
A new three-year contract and settlement agreement for the Birmingham Police Officers Association (BPOA) was approved by the city commission on Monday, November 17, putting in place new wage adjustments for the three contract years, 401(a) contribution matches, and a wage increase for dispatch employees.
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City sets use of CDBG grant allocation
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)F funding for the city of Birmingham was officially allocated by the city commission during the Monday, November 17, meeting, setting aside money for yard services and the removal of architectural barriers from public spaces.
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Holiday events in downtown Birmingham
The holiday season activities officially kick off this weekend with events scheduled for this Saturday in downtown Birmingham.
Terrorism suspect arrested for making threats
The Bloomfield Township Police Department, with assistance from the FBI and the Troy Special Investigations Unit, was able to make an arrest of a suspect who had made threats against the Oakland County GOP and a Michigan Republican Youth Chairperson.
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Target store hit with thefts twice in one week
The Bloomfield Township Target store at 2400 S. Telegraph was hit with two retail fraud incidents in the last week.
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Man arrested in Birmingham on warrant
A Detroit man was arrested in Birmingham on Friday, November 7, after an interaction with city police officers led to them discovering a warrant for his arrest out of the Lansing Police Department.
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Women with warrants arrested shoplifting
Two women accused of stealing merchandise from a Birmingham clothing store on the block of 100 S. Old Woodward were apprehended and turned over to other police departments after city police learned they had outstanding warrants from other communities.
The new American Gold Rush – cannabis. The Wild West arrived in the Midwest through cannabis sales, with Michigan leading the way in legalizing recreational use in 2018. A decade earlier, medicinal use had been legalized in November 2008, and by 2019, there were approximately 450 medical provisioning centers, serving 283,000 registered patients – one of the largest in the United States. The number of licensed facilities for growing, processing, and compliance for the medical market was in the hundreds as well. In October of 2019, Michigan began accepting applications for its first recreational marijuana businesses, with sales beginning on December 1, 2019. The initial licenses were awarded in November 2019, primarily to existing medical license holders who could meet the conversion criteria. By the end of 2019 and into early January 2020, there were 27 active adult-use licenses across the state.
When U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens announced for the U.S. Senate this year, and state Senator Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) announced for her House seat, some political observers speculated that his entry into the Democratic primary would not necessarily clear the field of other contenders but would limit the number of candidates for this congressional district that includes most of Oakland County. Lots of luck with that theory.
