Your New Scoop Site

Welcome to Scoop!

To help you figure things out, there is a Scoop Admin Guide which can hopefully answer most of your questions.

Some tips:

Most of the layout is changed in "Blocks", found in the admin tools menu
Features can be turned on and off, and configured, in "Site Controls" in the admin tools menu
Stories have an "edit" link right beside the "Full Story" link on an index page, and right beside the "Post a Comment" link on the full story page. They can also be edited by clicking the story title in the "Story List" admin tool
Boxes are what allow you to write new features for Scoop; they require a knowledge of the perl programming language to work with effectively, although you can often make small changes without knowing much perl. If you would like a feature added but cannot program it yourself, ScoopHost does custom Scoop programming as one of its services.
If you aren't sure where to look for a particular feature or piece of display, try the "Search Admin Tools" link in the admin tools menu.

For support, questions, and general help with Scoop, email support@scoophost.com

ScoopHost.com is currently running Scoop version Undeterminable from .

Tag: Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (page 3)

FBI: Federal Probe Of Ficano Underway

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 18, 2011 at 11:58:51 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

It's the same kind of non-profit that tripped up former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A federal grand jury indicted Kilpatrick for using his fund like a personal piggy bank.

(5 comments) Comments >>

Ficano Suspends Azzam While AG Schuette Plays Shazam

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 18, 2011 at 01:41:55 AM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Investigating... HIMSELF, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Now, why in the world is Granholms' Aerotropolis stooge, Azzam Elder, the husband of 3rd Circuit Court Judge Charlene Elder (a Granholm appointment) doing a clandestine "touchy-feely" meeting with Turkia Awada Mullin in an Expedition in a Dearborn parking lot?

Hello? Anyone home, AG? Take a break from chasing clown color hippies, this needs your attention.

(5 comments) Comments >>

A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Sweet Deals Are Made Of These

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 08:50:15 AM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Investigating... HIMSELF, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Skin of the Wayne County onion continues to peel.

A board member of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport authority who voted to appoint Turkia Mullin as its CEO made $420,000 just weeks earlier from a land sale she helped engineer, records obtained by The Detroit News show.
Charlie J. Williams, a former Wayne County deputy executive, worked as facilitator and mediator in a $14 million sale of a parking lot for a new county jail downtown. The deal -- which Mullin signed off on as the county's chief development officer -- paid him a 3 percent commission.
Two weeks after the sale was completed on July 14, Williams voted to hire Mullin for the airport job that pays $250,000 a year. He also was one of three members of a search committee that recommended her for the job above four finalists with airport management experience.
"If you were in on the interview process, you would've hired her too if you saw how dynamic she was," said Williams, a former appointee of county Executive Robert Ficano, who named him to the airport board in 2006.

Rest here

(8 comments) Comments >>

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 11, 2011 at 02:22:13 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Investigating... HIMSELF, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Hey, if you're a thrice sued real estate lawyer operating out of a smoldering Wayne County Executive Office, get every penny you can, right?

A top assistant to Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano told county commissioners Tuesday that an investigation into a controversial $200,000 severance has "made substantial progress," but said he can't say much else about the issue.
Assistant County Executive Alan Helmkamp acknowledged that Turkia Mullin also received payment for 75 percent of the worth of 20 unused sick days and an unspecified number of vacation days per a letter dated Sept. 3 when she left to become CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
He didn't know the monetary amount of that payout. If it was based on her $200,000 salary, the sick days alone would be worth about $12,500.
The document also outlines plans for her severance. It is signed by Mullin and Tim Taylor, a former top executive in human resources now working part time on an hourly basis with no benefits.

Rest here

Comments >>

<< Previous 8