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Metro Detroit

From a fitness studio to a gelateria, Midtown and New Center land 6 new businesses

Other businesses include a restaurant, hair salon, waxing and lashing studio, and bridal boutique

By Steve Neavling
Sep 8, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Retail, Development, retailers, business, Midtown, Detroit, the Platform, restaurants, Pure Barre
Michigan

Rick Haglund: Michigan Dems offer a refreshing change to a people-based economic growth strategy

Michigan has a golden opportunity to become a much stronger competitor for residents and workers

By Rick Haglund, Michigan Advance
Jan 17, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Whitmer, economy, population, transportation
Metro Detroit

Michigan dishes out $85M in tax money to fund QLine streetcars as costs increase

Fares and private boosters were supposed to fund the streetcars — not taxpayers

By Steve Neavling
Dec 30, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Transportation, QLine, streetcars, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, tax subsidies, transportation
Politics & Elections

Lime offers free e-scooter rides to vote in Detroit

The offer includes two free rides for up to $15 each way to and from the polls and is already available for early voting

By Steve Neavling
Oct 14, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Election, Detroit, Lime, e-scooter, Transportation
Metro Detroit

Workers at a Starbucks in Royal Oak seeks to unionize as movement grows in Michigan

Twelve Starbucks stores in Michigan have formed a union since May.

By Steve Neavling
Oct 11, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Starbucks, Royal Oak, union, coffee, coffee shop, business
Metro Detroit

Striking workers at Great Lakes Coffee withdraw from union effort as company closes stores

After a bitter battle to unionize, baristas are forced to move on

By Steve Neavling
Aug 15, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Coffee, Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co., labor unions, Detroit, business
Michigan

How attacks on drag queens in Howell foreshadowed the right’s national anti-LGBTQ+ push

By Jon King, Michigan Advance
Jul 25, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, Drag Queen, Livingston County, LGBTQ, Howell, politics, Michigan Government, Government, election
Michigan

Whitmer signs general budget, vetoes anti-abortion items

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Jul 21, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Abortion Rights, Michigan Advance, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, government
Michigan

Under fire from Congress, FDA chief says baby formula shortage will improve soon

By Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Politics, Government, baby formula, FDA
Metro Detroit

Mask mandates lifted for local transit authorities in metro Detroit

The decision comes after a Trump-appointed judge overturned the mask mandate in Florida

By Steve Neavling
Apr 20, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, President Biden, COVID-19, public transit, QLINE, Smart, DDOT, mask mandate, health, transportation
Michigan

Soldano floats conspiracy theory that Whitmer staged kidnapping plot to influence 2020 election

Soldano is one of 12 Republicans hoping to challenge Whitmer in the 2022 election.

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Apr 15, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Whitmer, kidnap, January 6, protest, verdict, politics, government, Michigan Government, Lansing
Michigan

Division, disarray mark Macomb County GOP convention

Party ousts chair amid turmoil, delegates chosen for April 23 state convention

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Apr 13, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, government, politics, GOP, Macomb County
Michigan

Susan J. Demas: Republicans said KBJ was soft on pedophiles. But they have a Michigan problem.

By Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance
Apr 11, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Lee Chatfield, Michigan, Government, Michigan Advance
Michigan

Detroit area legacy politician arrested faces drunken driving charges

The state representative faces her second OWI offense

By Alex Washington
Apr 6, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan, politics, government, election, state representative, Mary Cavanagh, Jewell Jones, Bryan Posthumus
Michigan

Whitmer vetoes bill to suspend state’s gas tax beginning in 2023

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Apr 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, Gas, Government, Michigan Government, Politics, Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Whitmer
Michigan

Michigan good-government groups: check your districts before election time

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Apr 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan News Connection, Redistricting, voters, vote, election, government, Michigan government, politics
Michigan

Michigan GOP House candidate vows to introduce ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation if elected

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Mar 28, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, government, GOP, LGBTQ
Michigan

Michigan will now accept credit cards for FOIA requests

Gov. Whitmer takes step toward transparency in new directive accepting card payments for FOIA requests, even though her office is still immune

By Alex Washington
Mar 18, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Governor Whitmer, Michigan, government, politics, FOIA, Freedom of information act, Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan

Column: Income tax cut deserves a veto, because Michiganders deserve better

By Monique Stanton, Michigan Advance
Mar 17, 2022

Tags: Michigan News
The Incision

The COVID mistake we keep on making

By Abdul El-Sayed
Mar 16, 2022

Tags: The Incision, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, government, CDC, Congress, Biden