Mayor’s Amorous Texts Lead to Perjury Inquiry

New York Times:

"The city’s charismatic but scandal-plagued mayor and his chief of staff will be the subject of an investigation into whether they lied under oath when they denied having an extramarital affair, the Wayne County prosecutor announced here Friday.

The investigation by the prosecutor, Kym L. Worthy, was prompted by The Detroit Free Press’s publication this week of text messages, many of them flirtatious, between the mayor, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, who have known each other since high school.

The messages, transmitted to and from Ms. Beatty’s city-owned pager in 2002 and 2003, appear to show that the two had an intimate relationship and suggest that they committed perjury by denying the affair during testimony in one of two whistleblower lawsuits that have cost taxpayers in the beleaguered city more than $9 million."

Tigers May Stop Season Ticket Sales

Detroit News

What spiked the interest, of course, was the blockbuster trade last month with the Marlins for Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis -- following what had already been a successful offseason that included the acquisition of shortstop Edgar Renteria from the Braves.

"Our TigerFest sold out in a couple of days," said Dombrowski. "Our sponsorship gathering was the largest we've ever had."

And the clamor for season tickets gets louder by the week.

"We've sold (the equivalent of) 4,500 full-season tickets since the day we made the trade," Dombrowski said Monday night on his last stop of the Tigers' annual caravan. "Last year, we had the largest season-ticket base we've ever had, about 19,500, so that 4,500 is on top of that. Now we don't have everyone renewed yet, because they have until Feb. 15, but we anticipate (most of them renewing) -- and I will tell you that we're having conversations about having to cut off our season-ticket sales.