The Investigators are expanding how we bring you the news.  We are now live-blogging at important news events, like Mayor Kilpatrick's bond hearing last Friday. That day we posted several entries as commentary to the live video feed that website visitors were watching.

The most interesting item was a conversation with his attorney Jim Thomas. Before the hearing began, we called Thomas to ask if his client would be coming in the front door or "sneaking" in the back, but he wouldn't say. And when we told him that the back door entrance made the Mayor look guilty, Thomas said, "That's your point of view." He also mentioned protestors as to why the Mayor needed to use the back door. When we told him no protestors were at the courthouse, he said there were death threats against the Mayor. Pressed to give details about the alleged death threats, Thomas wouldn't comment, except to say details about them "had already been published."

If the Mayor is truly in danger, then why does he walk on the streets of Detroit each day at scheduled press conferences where anyone could reach him? How are the streets safer than a courthouse swarming with officers and security guards and where eveyone has to go through security screening as they enter the door?

Thomas should do his client a favor and insist that the next time the Mayor enters any courthouse, he use the front door. Otherwise he will continue to look -- in the words of three Detroit teens we spoke to that day outside the courthouse -- "guilty."