Happy 80th, Mickey Mouse! LIFE, 1C
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Happy 80th, Mickey Mouse! LIFE, 1C
CMY K Deminski & Doyle to host WCSX mornings NAMES & FACES, 5C Win $2,500 TAKE THE MONEY AND SHOP! CONTEST DETAILS, 6C Happy 80th, Mickey Mouse! LIFE, 1C ON GUARD FOR 177 YEARS WWW.FREEP.COM TUESDAY NOV. 18, 2008 METRO FINAL CASINO STRUGGLES UNDER BANKRUPTCY ◆ ◆ 1st peek at ’10 Mustang! 1B GREEKTOWN Congress OUT OF LUCK? adds new demands to auto bailout House bill wants veto over carmakers’ business moves By JUSTIN HYDE and TODD SPANGLER FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF 2007 photo by WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press In October, Greektown’s revenue was $24.7 million, compared with MotorCity’s $37.9 million and MGM Grand Detroit’s $48.4 million. Growing cash crisis puts new hotel in jeopardy By MARGARITA BAUZA FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER A growing cash crisis won’t close Greektown Casino, but work could stop soon on its nearly finished hotel, dimming hopes for reversing the fortunes of the perennial third-place finisher in Detroit’s casino competition. The Michigan Gaming Control Board told a federal bankruptcy judge Monday that the contractor working on the 400-room hotel set to open in February won’t get paid for millions of dollars worth of work unless Greektown’s performance improves. Gaming board officials said the casino owners could run out of cash in De- Drug charge to send Abraham back to prison Love triangle to blame in fire death? As an Inkster home sat in charred ruins Monday, police said the 71-year-old occupant’s ex-girlfriend, 63, was expected to be charged in setting the fire that killed his current girlfriend, 52, and left the homeowner with minor burns. Story, 4A By L.L. BRASIER Wayne, 50¢ Oakland & Macomb counties 75¢ Elsewhere See GREEKTOWN, 13A INKSTER WOMAN KILLED FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Nathaniel Abraham will be back behind bars after pleading guilty to possessing and selling the drug ecstasy. Abraham, 22, entered his plea Monday before Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O’Brien. He faces 24 to 40 months in prison under state guidelines. His attorney, Byron Pitts, said he agreed to the plea after learning that the judge would sentence him in the mid-range. He remains in the Oakland County Jail and will be sentenced Dec. 22. “He is not happy about it,” Pitts said of his client’s return to incarceration. “But he understands, as we all do, that we have to be productive members of society.” Abraham made headlines when, at age 11, he was charged as an adult for the 1997 fatal shooting of Ronnie Greene Jr. outside a Pontiac party store. In 1999, he was cember. Greektown general contractor Jenkins Skanska has tried to reach an agreement with Greektown that guarantees it will be paid for its work through completion. Greektown filed for Chapter 11 in May. JOSE JUAREZ/ Associated Press Nathaniel Abraham, listening to his attorney Monday, pleaded guilty to selling ecstasy. convicted of second-degree murder, but was sentenced as a juvenile and released last January on his 21st birthday. In May, Pontiac police said they watched Abraham make what appeared to be a drug sale, and later found hundreds of ecstasy tablets in his car. Contact L.L. BRASIER at 248-858-2262 or [email protected]. SNOW SHOWERS — ONCE AGAIN Way too cold for November! Chuck Gaidica forecast, 23A 32 23 HIGH LOW WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press INDEX Vol. 178, Number 198 © 2008 Detroit Free Press Inc. Printed in the U.S. Bridge ..............2E Business ..........1B Classified .........1E Comics........7C, 8C Corrections.......2A WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats unveiled competing versions Monday of a plan to start funneling $25 billion to U.S. automakers before the end of the year, but lawmakers from both parties and the Bush administration withheld support, demanding tough conditions as part of any rescue. The complicated debate threatens to consume whatever time Congress has set aside this week to consider help for ailing automakers in a lameduck session, with the Senate vote not expected until late in the week. With a 60-vote hurdle to ending Senate debate and the possibility of an automaker bankruptcy without aid, backers faced increasing pressure to reach a compromise. “There’s no indication that the car companies would do anything different than what Automakers, UAW set to testify today Heads of Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and the UAW are to appear today in Washington. ❚ When: 3 p.m. ❚ Where: U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs ❚ Chairman: Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. Keep track on freep.com: Live Webcast and news updates through the day. More coverage in Business ❚ GM selling stake in Suzuki. 1B ❚ Job-loss scenarios are dire. 4B they’ve been doing, which has been a big failure, which is why they need a bailout,” said Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, RAriz. “There’s no reason to throw money at a problem that’s not going to get solved.” Both proposals would draw See BAILOUT, 20A Seize this moment to end oil addiction Rescue should set clear plan in motion A mid all the finger-pointing at executives, labor and Wall Street accompanying the Detroit automakers’ request for a government rescue, let’s not lose sight of an important question: What’s the plan? As we consider putting billions in taxpayer money on the line to avoid economic calamity, I’d really like to know, from both the car companies and our national leaders, how we avoid being in the same spot in March or June or five years from now. Can we use this moment of crisis to finally do what our leaders have been talking Deaths ...........16A Editorials .......22A Horoscope ........5C Life .................1C Local News.......4A Lottery ............2A Movie Guide .....2C Puzzle Page ......2E Sports..............1D Television.........7C RANDY ESSEX about since gas went over 40 cents a gallon the day I got my driver’s license in 1974, and forge a policy that seriously moves us toward energy independence? We are told repeatedly that this is a national security issue. Can we act like it? One of the auto industry’s See ESSEX, 21A CONTACT US Delivery questions: 800-395-3300 News tip hotline: 313-222-6600 Classified: 586-977-7500; 800-926-8237