Bingham Farms, Michigan
Bingham Farms is a village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Bingham Farms is located within Southfield Township, roughly northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 1,124. History Originally settled in 1823 by John Daniels of Rutland, Vermont, the tiny settlement in what was soon to become Southfield Township in 1830 would stay isolated and small until Telegraph Road was brought through the area in 1928. In the early 1950s, citizens in the southern part of the township sought to have the entire township incorporated as a city. Seeking to retain their individual characters and guard against annexation, the settlements in the northern end raced to incorporate as villages. Bingham Farms was incorporated on October 4, 1955, named after a prominent family present in the village since 1880. All roads in the village remained unpaved until 1984 to discourage intensive development. Geography ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Village (United States)
In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a "village" is a type of administrative division at the local government in the United States, local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legislating on local government, the U.S. state, states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages" or not to and to define the word in many ways. Typically, a village is a type of municipality, although it can also be a special-purpose district, special district or an unincorporated area. It may or may not be recognized for governmental purposes. In informal usage, a U.S. village may be simply a relatively small clustered human settlement without formal legal existence. In colonial New England, a village typically formed around the church building, meetinghouses that were located in the center of each New England town, town.Joseph S. Wood ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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United States House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the United States Constitution, Article One of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as Bill (United States Congress), bills. Those that are also passed by the Senate are sent to President of the United States, the president for signature or veto. The House's exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, Impeachment in the United States, impeaching federal officers, and Contingent election, electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College. Members of the House serve a Fixed-term election, fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a family of client, server and online geographic information system (GIS) software developed and maintained by Esri. ArcGIS was first released in 1982 as ARC/INFO, a command line-based GIS. ARC/INFO was later merged into ArcGIS Desktop, which was eventually superseded by ArcGIS Pro in 2015. Additionally, ArcGIS Server is a server-side GIS and geodata sharing software. Product history Prior to the ArcGIS suite, Esri had focused its software development on the command line Arc/INFO workstation program and several graphical user interface-based products such as the ArcView GIS 3.x desktop program. Other Esri products included MapObjects, a programming library for developers, and ArcSDE as a relational database management system. The various products had branched out into multiple source trees and did not integrate well with one another. In January 1997, Esri decided to revamp its GIS software platform, creating a single integrated software architecture. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oakland County Board Of Commissioners
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners (OCBoC) is the legislative branch of the government of Oakland County, Michigan. It is composed of 19 commissioners, each elected to represent a single-member district in the county. Commissioners are elected to four-year terms in presidential election years; prior to the 2024 election, commissioners served two-year terms. The county board sets policy and laws for the county regarding property, public health services, public safety, and maintenance of county highways. It is presided over by its chair, currently Dave Woodward. Meetings of the Board of Commissioners are held in the Commissioners' Auditorium at the Oakland County Service Center in Pontiac Pontiac most often refers to: * Pontiac (Odawa leader) ( – 1769), Native American war chief *Pontiac (automobile), a former General Motors brand Pontiac may also refer to: Places and jurisdictions Canada * Pontiac, Quebec, a municipality ** Apo ..., and are open for public attendance a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samantha Steckloff
Samantha Rae Steckloff (born 1984) is an American politician who has been serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2021, currently representing the Michigan's 19th House of Representatives district, 19th district.Michigan Committee Statement of Organization Michigan Secretary of State, March 16, 2021. Prior to that, Steckloff served 8 years on the Farmington Hills City Council. Early life and education Steckloff was born in 1984 to mother Vicki Barnett and attorney Irwin Steckloff, and raised in Farmington Hills, Michigan with her brother Jordan. In 2002 she graduated from her home city's Harrison High School (Michigan), Harrison High School. As a teenager, Steckloff got involved with community activism through the Farmington Hills After School progr ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan's 19th House Of Representatives District
Michigan's 19th House of Representatives district (also referred to as Michigan's 19th House district) is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in part of Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County. The district was created in 1965, when the Michigan House of Representatives district naming scheme changed from a county-based system to a numerical one. List of representatives Recent elections 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 Historical district boundaries References {{Michigan House of Representatives Michigan House of Representatives districts Government of Detroit Wayne County, Michigan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan House Of Representatives
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2020 U.S. census. Its composition, powers and duties are established in Article IV of the Michigan Constitution. Members are elected in even-numbered years and take office at 12 p.m. (EST) on January 1 following the November general election. Concurrently with the Michigan Senate, the House first convenes on the second Wednesday in January, according to the state constitution. Each member is limited to serving at most six terms of two years, but may not serve more than twelve years combined across the Michigan House and Michigan Senate. The House meets in the north wing of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. The Republican Party currently has a majority in the chamber. In recent years, the Republican majority in the House has been widely at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeremy Moss
Jeremy Allen Moss (born June 23, 1986) is an American politician from Southfield, Michigan currently representing the 7th State Senate District, which includes all of Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Lake Angelus, Lathrup Village, Pontiac, Southfield, Michigan and parts of Detroit, Southfield Township, and Waterford Township. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first openly LGBT person elected to the Michigan Senate, as well as the first to serve as President Pro Tempore. Moss previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014–2018, and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council. Personal life Moss was born on June 23, 1986, in Detroit and is a lifelong resident of Southfield, Michigan. He attended Hillel Day School and graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School in the Birmingham Public School District. He graduated with high honors from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan's 7th Senate District
Michigan's 7th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Jeremy Moss since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Dayna Polehanki. Geography District 7 encompasses parts of Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland and Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne counties. 2011 Apportionment Plan District 7, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered the immediate western suburbs of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County, including Livonia, Michigan, Livonia, Northville Charter Township, Michigan, Northville, the Plymouth, Michigan, city and Plymouth Charter Township, Michigan, township of Plymouth, Canton, Michigan, Canton, and Wayne, Michigan, Wayne. The district was largely located within Michigan's 11th congressional district, also extending into the Michigan's 13th congressional district, 13th district. It overlapped with the Michigan's 11th House of Representatives district, 11th, Michigan's 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan Senate
The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature, which has powers, roles and duties defined by Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963. The primary purpose of the Legislature is to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws. The Michigan Senate is composed of 38 members, each elected from a single-member district with a population of between approximately 212,400 to 263,500 residents. Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures, provided by the federal decennial census. In January 2023, Democrats took the majority with 20 seats to Republicans' 18 seats. The Senate chamber is located in the State Capitol building. Titles Members of the Michigan Senate are called senators. Because this shadows the terminology used to describe members of the United States Senate, constituents and the news media, using ''The Associated Press Stylebo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |