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Disability justice groups demand more resources in Detroit’s budget
More than 128,000 Detroiters – or one out of five residents – have at least one disability
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Disability Rights, Paratransit, Detroit Department of Transportation, Detroit, people with disabilities, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, budget, wheelchairs
Ethics complaint alleges improper hiring of Detroit paratransit leader
A top Detroit transportation official ‘abused his authority,’ the complainant alleges
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Transdev, Detroit Department of Transportation, paratransit, Mikel Oglesby, City of Detroit Ethics Board, George Michael Staley
Opinion: Does ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ really exist for people with disabilities?
Detroit’s paratransit crisis highlights the problems with how people with disabilities are perceived
By Kelli Finger
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Views & Opinions, Diversity equity and inclusion, disabilities, paratransit, Mayor Mike Duggan
Paratransit debate fractures relationship between Detroit’s mayor and council
Duggan called the city council ‘dysfunctional’ after it rejected a contract for transportation services for people with disabilities
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Politics & Elections, Paratransit, DDOT, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, Trandev
Michigan Central Station is hiring ‘ambassadors’ to welcome guests
By Lee DeVito
Lapointe: The Red Wings got trashed
By Joe Lapointe
Lucha Boom is bringing authentic luchadors to Detroit for Cinco de Mayo
By Layla McMurtrie