The likely struggle of the Hudson’s Detroit project to meet projected Detroit jobs and revenue is the latest large-scale project fueling the debate over the structure of tax-incentivized development....
At BridgeDetroit, journalist Tom Perkins reports…...
From that handsome devil, award-winning reporter Malachi Barrett, over at BridgeDetroit…...
At a time when Black people faced legalized discrimination and inequities in healthcare systems across the nation, Dr. Lula Belle Stewart-Robinson treated Black children in her home on Detroit’s west side. […] Now, the home of the first Black female pediatric cardiologist in Michigan is a step closer to becoming an official...
Zina Thomas, 60, of Detroit, was arrested Wednesday and charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft, U. S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced....
Several Michigan schools offer tuition-free guarantees that use a combination of federal, state and university funds to pay for tuition. Students may have other costs such as supplies and housing....
Today, let’s celebrate a little creativity Made In Detroit, something positive…...
DISCLAIMER: if you’re looking for the usual summary, just go directly here. I’ve got a spleen to vent....
“I’m no spring chicken,” said Mike Muftari, owner of Mike’s Famous Ham Place on Michigan Avenue, who said he is selling the business so he can retire....
Over at BridgeDetroit, that handsome devil Malachi Barrett writes his weekly https://www.bridgedetroit.com/category/city-council-notebook/, a round-up of topics discussed and voted upon at the City Council meeting. This week…...
Your Detroit-based church group got a plot of land and just don’t know what to do with it? Maybe your Detroit neighborhood association was willed vacant land and it’s just overgrown with weeds and detritus? That handsome devil Malachi Barrett over at BridgeDetroit informs the civic-minded and/or aesthetically-sensitive of...
After a Dec. 21 federal court ruling threw out 13 state House and Senate districts, the three-judge panel ordered new state House maps in place by March 29....
About 70% of Black children in Detroit can’t swim, according to data collected by the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, and, per a 2021 report from aquatics planning and design firm Counsilman-Hunsaker, Detroiters are more afraid of the water than residents from other southeast Michigan communities....
Over at BridgeDetroit is that handsome devil Malachi Barrett’s weekly https://www.bridgedetroit.com/category/city-council-notebook/, his round-up of topics discussed and voted upon at the City Council meeting. This week…...
The city issued nearly 300 blight tickets to Grand Rapids-based Green Valley Properties over two years, according to a BridgeDetroit analysis of online city records. In 2022, the city’s Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department submitted a notice to revoke the company’s 2018 land use permit for allegedly...
Runny eyes, dry throats: Detroiters want compensation for Stellantis pollution...
Yeah, the holidays have come and gone, most of us are back in our normal complacent routines of wage slavery, zombie walkin’ and exercising our thumbs. But every year after the holidays, organizations like Focus: HOPE see a dip in volunteers; y’all done with showing Santa what a good person you are....
Water Square? That’s the best the marketing team could come up with? 🤦♂️ In any case, developers are planning a…...
Here’s some good news, always in short supply…...
Police surveillance tools have multiplied in the two years since the council adopted a Community Input Over Government Surveillance ordinance. The 2021 law, created in partnership with civil rights groups, requires public disclosures before the council can approve technology contracts. Advocates say loopholes in the law and a...
Tracy-Ann Jennings never imagined herself managing political campaigns, let alone running her own…This month, she arranged childcare for three of her kids, strapped her youngest into a car seat and drove to Detroit to attend a training program for female aspiring candidates and campaign managers. Almost immediately, others...
Editorial: maybe it’s the cynic in me but I have a sneaking suspicion that in the near future, there’s gonna be a lot of unnecessary Capitol security guards knees on innocent Lansing passerbys’ necks. American gun control is, dare I say it, almost as nuanced and complicated a problem as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict....
Population comparison 2010-2020Image provided by the city of Detroit...
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield is spearheading an effort to create new incentives for construction contractors that provide health insurance and retirement benefits or participate in registered apprenticeship programs. The ordinance would offer new “equalization credits” that give qualifying companies a better...
