Detroit Gets It Right On Vaccine Rollout
I’ve been plenty critical of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. But credit where credit is due. On COVID testing and vaccine rollout, the city has, after a disastrous spring of 2020,…
Michigan: a tale of US neglect
From roads to railways to water supply, one state’s decaying infrastructure reflects the scale of Biden’s task to rebuild {read}
Michigan ranks second in COVID variant cases as state hits ‘tipping point’
Most of the Grand Ledge cases (29 of 47) involve middle and high school students, coaches and additional students and staff exposed at a series of basketball games Feb. 18,…
Oak Park seeks to build ‘Linear Park’ along Nine Mile Road
“Transforming underutilized spaces into vibrant public gathering spots that fit their neighborhood and give people space to safely gather is what this program is intended for,” says MEDC Senior Vice…
Detroit police officers fight each other in undercover op gone wrong
An internal investigation has been launched at the Detroit Police Department after two different precincts got into a turf war as they converged on an east side neighborhood. DETROIT (WJBK)…
This Detroiter Wants to Change How the City Votes
Garlin Gilchrist did a little informal poll worker training when he showed up to vote in Detroit’s primary in August — and he hopes that type of education will soon…
Michigan rapist gets joint custody
A Sanilac County Circuit judge has granted parenting time and joint legal custody of an 8-year-old boy to a convicted sex offender who allegedly raped the child’s mother nine years…
With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
“I know they are legal,” Leitz said of his H-2A workers. “If ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes in at least I know I still have workers.” Thus far,…
Inside Detroit’s merciless graffiti crackdown
Three years in, Mayor Mike Duggan's war on graffiti has yielded more than 50 arrests and $1.2 million in fines
Detroit redefined: city hires America’s first official ‘chief storyteller’
Irritated by the relentless focus on ruin porn, or pre-emptive stories about the city’s tech resurgence, Aaron Foley will attempt to offer a more nuanced portrait {read}