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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
Tags: Michigan News, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Whitmer, economy, population, transportation
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
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Transportation, QLine, streetcars, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, tax subsidies, transportation
Detroiters slam regulators for lax approach to stinky Stellantis plant
A nauseating smell has been wafting from the plant on Detroit's east side for more than a year.
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Stellantis, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Detroit, consent order, Michigan, environmental racism, environmental, air pollution, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy
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
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Election, Detroit, Lime, e-scooter, Transportation
Mask mandates lifted for local transit authorities in metro Detroit
The decision comes after a Trump-appointed judge overturned the mask mandate in Florida
Tags: Metro Detroit News, President Biden, COVID-19, public transit, QLINE, Smart, DDOT, mask mandate, health, transportation
Demolition set to begin this week on toxic industrial site that oozed toxic slime in metro Detroit
The green slime was groundwater contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environmental, Madison Heights, Oakland County, Jeremy Moss, state Senate, Michigan, Gary McGillivray, Oakland County Board of Commissioners, Gary Alfred Sayers, hexavalent chromium
State launches website amid air quality violations at Stellantis plants
Tags: Stellantis, Detroit, pollution, environmental, Michigan, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, environmental racism
Whitmer orders state agencies to find alternatives to 'forever chemicals'
Tags: Gov. Whitmer, executive order, PFAS, environmental, Michigan, Sen. Brinks, Great Lakes PFAS Action Network
Protesters temporarily shut down controversial Line 5 pipeline
Tags: Enbridge, direct action, protest, Tuscola County, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, Line 5 pipeline, oil, Great Lakes, environmental
Whitmer warns of potential for ‘catastrophic oil spill’ after Canada invokes 1977 pipeline treaty in Line 5 dispute
Tags: Michigan, Enbridge, Line 5, Great Lakes, environmental, Gov. Whitmer, Canada, oil, 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty
City Council approves ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse
Tags: Detroit River, Detroit, Detroit City Council, environmental, Detroit River Protection Ordinance, pollution
Report: EV technology, manufacturing to create job growth in Michigan
By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan, electric vehicles, EV, jobs, growth, transportation
City Council considers ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse
Tags: EGLE, Michigan, Detroit, ordinance, environmental, Detroit City Council, Public Health and Safety Committee, Detroit River, Sierra Club, Raquel Castañeda-López
Duggan's administration endorses plan to allow hazardous materials on Ambassador Bridge
Tags: Ambassador Bridge, Mayor Duggan, Detroit. Michigan Department of Transportation, hazardous materials, Sierra Club, environmental, BSEED, Detroit International Bridge Co.
St. Clair Shores warns about elevated levels of lead in water system
Tags: Lead, lead poisoning, drinking water, St. Clair Shores, Mayor Walby, EPA, environmental
Enbridge plans to defy Michigan's order to shut down controversial pipeline
Tags: Great Lakes, environmental, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Enbridge Energy, Straits of Mackinac, Department of Natural Resources, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer
COVID-19 relief bill tainted with 'downright dangerous' provision for hazardous material on Ambassador Bridge
Tags: Sen, Chang, State Senate, State House, Rep. Aiyash, Rep. Garza, Rep. Hammoud, Detroit, environmental, environmental racism, Ambassador Bridge, Gov. Whitmer, hazardous material
Michigan slaps $60,000 fine on company responsible for dock collapse along Detroit River
Tags: EGLE, Michigan, Revere Dock, Detroit River, Detroit, environmental, Sierra Club, southwest Detroit
DDOT shuts down bus services after drivers refuse to work amid coronavirus fears
Tags: DDOT, buses, Detroit, transportation, coronavirus, SMART
Detroit activists unveil ordinance to protect Detroit River from another collapse
Tags: News Hits, Environmental, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Mayor Duggan, pollution, Detroit River, Sierra Club, Detroit Bulk Storage
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
Side Hustle Lounge opens in downtown Detroit just in time for the NFL Draft
By Layla McMurtrie
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley
By Lee DeVito