8 . Fouts fights with council continue 9

Litigation between Warren Mayor James Fouts and City Council continued and escalated this year with six different cases being filed in Macomb County Circuit Court involving the two parties.

Most recently, Fouts was named as the defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by the city council to keep Fouts and his administration from interfering with council president Patrick Green’s ability to serve in that capacity. Former councilperson atlarge candidate Gary Boike is challenging Green’s tenure based on term limit language in the city charter.

Other 2022 litigation between the two parties includes a dispute over who has the final say on the annual city budget and a disagreement over who is responsible for drawing city council districts. Fouts lost the case regarding the budget, but appealed the lower court’s decision and the case is currently pending in the Michigan State Court of Appeals. A settlement regarding council districts is expected soon.

The two sides have been embattled since Nov. 2019 when seven new city council members were elected. The city budget has gone to litigation the past three years.

. Putin’s war ripples felt across the world

What was Russian President Vladimir Putin thinking when he sent up to 200,000 troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022? A quick victory?

That he would sweep into the capital Kyiv in a matter of days and depose the government?

One thing for sure, he underestimated the impact that such an invasion would have on people around the world including 1 million people with Ukrainian ancestry living