Trouble In Hamtramck
One of the toughest spots in U.S. education is the city of Hamtramck,* Mich. Hamtramck is a nest of factories, beer parlors and brothels entirely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramckers were prominent among 400-odd Wayne County public servants indicted in recent years for assorted civic crimes. In two decades four Hamtramck mayors, one local State Senator and pecks of small political potatoes have gone to prison on liquor, vice and graft counts. When one mayor left jail, his constituents re-elected him, promoted him to be an isolationist Congressman.
Once Hamtramckers boasted...
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