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Can Detroit’s RecoveryPark recover?
As Gary Wozniak tells it, his career in finance started in the 1980s when he did a cost-benefit analysis on what it would take to pursue a master’s and Ph.D in psychology, his major as an undergrad at Oakland University, and realized he would never be able to pay off his student loans. “So I…
How long does marijuana stay in your system?
The timeframe in which ingredients like Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) remain active in the system before breaking down can range from a few hours up to 90 days. Detection will depend on several factors – such as dose, frequency of use, metabolism, and hydration. While the effects will fade relatively quickly, the drug is typically detectable in…
Delta 8 THC Drug Test: Everything You Need to Know to Detox 2024
Can delta-8 THC make you fail a drug test? It’s a fair question to ask with how recently the cannabis derivative was legalized. There’s a lot to understand when it comes to answering that question, though, so that’s what we’ll do with this guide today. We want to help you fully understand whether you would…
How Long Does Acid Stay in Your System? Steps to Detox Your Body 2024 (Guide)
Acid, or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), is a visual and auditory hallucinogenic drug that typically alters feelings, thoughts, and awareness of one’s surroundings. It’s mainly used for recreational purposes and is currently not accepted for medical use. Most drug tests can detect LSD use with a urine, blood, hair sample; however, it typically will not…
Alive Weight Loss Reviews (Scam or Legit) TryAlive Diet Pills Worth It?
Alive weight loss is the latest addition to the fat burner supplements’ list that can help users gain their dream bodies in a natural and safe manner. According to its official website (tryalive.com), Alive weight loss supplement uses its powerful natural ingredients like guarana, caffeine, and green coffee extract to work on melting fat within…
Fuze Bug Reviews (Scam or Legit) FuzeBug Mosquito Device Works?
Fuze Bug is a device that has been designed to get rid of insects in an easy and quick manner. As mentioned on the official website, it possesses dual functions i.e. it can be used as an illuminator that gives off light as well as a mosquito killer. Numerous Fuze Bug customer reviews have mentioned…
Glucofort Reviews – Fake Hidden Dangers or Real Customer Results?
Glucofort is a natural supplement that claims to help with erratic blood sugar levels. The product works effectively to increase insulin production so that glucose can be optimally processed. According to the official website (glucofort.com), Glucofort doesn’t just do this but also increases energy and improves your health in multiple other ways. For instance, it…
Honest Onnit Alpha Brain Review: Price, Effects, Alternatives
As someone in my 20s, I want to accomplish so much, both personally and professionally. By day, I’m a dental assistant. At night, I’m a full-time student studying for my master’s degree. I also have a social life, too — or at least I try to. The problem is that by the time 6PM rolls…
Cannabis park and grocery store coming to Pontiac after legal victory
A proposed $40 million cannabis park in Pontiac is moving forward after a judge sided with the developer in a long legal dispute with the city. Construction on Greenwood Plaza could begin this summer at the site of an abandoned Kmart complex on South Glenwood. The site is expected to include dispensaries and cannabis cultivation…
Whitmer signs drinks to-go into law, tax drop on to-go cocktails
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed several bills into law Monday aimed to ease the distribution of mixed spirit drinks. “This is a great example of bipartisan legislation that will create jobs and help our small businesses grow, and shows what we can do when we work together,” Whitmer said in a statement. “Distillers are a growing…
Detroit artist and former boxing champ Ray Gray released from prison after 48 years for a murder he insists he did not commit
Four-time Golden Gloves boxing champion Ray Gray, the Detroit man who’s spent more than 48 years behind bars for a murder he’s insisted all along he did not commit, has been released from a state prison in Muskegon. Following a plea deal with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Van…
Majority Black Detroit left behind as economic recovery benefits white and wealthy
For years, local advocates have warned that Detroit’s celebrated recovery and economic comeback were misguided, concluding that the beneficiary of these economic gains was largely white and wealthier, leaving the majority of Black Detroiters behind. A recent report published by Detroit Future City (DFC), “The State of Economic Equity in Detroit,” seems to bear this…
Michigan GOP proposal to ban transgender athletes in high school advances to committee hearing
Michigan Republicans are pushing a bill that would prevent transgender athletes in high school from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. The GOP-controlled Michigan Education and Career Readiness Committee plans to hold a hearing on the bill at noon Tuesday. A vote in the full Senate could come later this week. Democrats…
Breeze Maxx Reviews (Scam or Legit) BreezeMaxx Portable Air Conditioner Really Works?
Breeze Maxx (also called BreezeMaxx) is a new portable air conditioner in the market designed for people who wish to keep their bodies cool while on the go. As mentioned on the official website buybreezemaxx.com, this unit can perform multiple functions i.e. it can cool, clean, and circulate the air within your room to make…
Renowned DJ Moodymann will perform in Detroit this weekend
Detroit’s annual Movement electronic music festival may have been downsized to a “Micro” pandemic edition, but this Memorial Day weekend is still shaping up to have plenty of techno. The elusive Detroit DJ Kenny Dixon, aka Moodymann, is set to make a rare live performance Friday. Moodymann will perform an unusual set at the Corner…
Child abuser may dodge jail time because of ‘shady’ deal with Macomb County Prosecutor Lucido
Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido is accused of signing off on “a shady backroom deal” that may allow a man who severely beat his 10-week-old son to dodge jail time. The boy’s brain injuries were so serious that he was placed on a ventilator for at least 10 days and underwent two life-saving surgeries on…
DIA extends ‘Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City’ exhibition
For those who didn’t get to see Detroit Institute of Arts’ automobile exhibition Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020 due to the pandemic, there’s more time. The museum announced Monday that the exhibition will be extended to Jan. 9, 2022. When the show first opened last November, it was originally set to…
Michigan to end six-person table rule that Whitmer broke next week
Governor Gretchen Whitmer apologized on Sunday after a photo circulated showing her sitting with about a dozen people at tables pushed together at East Lansing’s Landshark Bar & Grill, as reported by The Detroit News — a violation of Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 pandemic orders, which say no more than six…
City Council considers ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse
Detroit residents and environmental activists are urging City Council to adopt a new ordinance aimed at protecting the Detroit River from industrial polluters. The council’s Public Health and Safety Committee meets Monday to discuss the Detroit River Protection Ordinance, which is aimed at protecting drinking water sources and holding unscrupulous polluters accountable. The ordinance is…
Modest Mouse announce Meadow Brook Amphitheatre show
As the summer concert season heats up, indie rock darlings Modest Mouse have announced a tour including a Friday, Aug. 20 at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre. Tickets start at $39.50 on the lawn and go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 26 at 313Presents.com, LiveNation.com, and Ticketmaster.com. The band also released “Leave a Light…
With federal stimulus, experts now foresee a big revenue upswing for Michigan
Michigan budget experts are now estimating a much more optimistic economic outlook for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 than was estimated four months ago, thanks largely to federal COVID-19 relief funds. This comes one day after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and GOP legislative leaders announced that they had agreed to negotiate on federal COVID spending, next year’s…
Michigan bill would restrict Delta-8 THC to licensed dispensaries
Michigan wants to restrict the sale of Delta-8 THC, a mildly intoxicating cannabinoid synthesized from hemp and sold at smoke shops and convenience stores that aren’t licensed to sell marijuana. The state House is expected to soon vote on a bill that would close a legal loophole to bring Delta-8 into regulatory compliance. The Michigan…
New marijuana grow facility that bills itself as Michigan’s first fully Black-owned breaks ground
A new marijuana grow operation that broke ground in Inkster on Friday claims to be Michigan’s first to be fully Black-owned. The 25,500 square foot facility is owned by Michigan Agricultural Services, LLC (MAS), which was founded by Detroit natives Mark Stockdale and Sahir Al-Salam. It will include a high-tech indoor commercial cannabis grow and…
Billie Eilish’s Detroit show at Little Caesars Arena is rescheduled for 2022
Everyone has their moment when they realized the pandemic was a big deal. For us, it was when breakout pop star Billie Eilish canceled her show at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena, which was to happen in 10 days, on March 23, 2022. Well, that show officially got rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 12,…
You can sample Black-owned spirits at Detroit’s Yum Village this weekend
Less than five years after it launched, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is now the top-selling Black-owned spirit company. Named after Nathaniel “Nearest” Green, a former slave who taught Jack Daniel how to distill, the company has helped usher in a new appreciation for African Americans’ contributions to the spirits industry. But they’re not the only…
No charges filed in mysterious death of woman in Harper Woods jail
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office won’t file charges in the case of Priscilla Slater, a 37-year-old Black woman whose mysterious death in a Harper Woods jail cell sparked protests. Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Slater died from a heart attack and was showing no signs of medical problems prior to her death on June 10. Slater…
The end of Roe
From the second news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death broke, this was the play. This was the reason Republicans muscled through Brett Kavanaugh despite the sexual-misconduct allegations against him. It was why Mitch McConnell invented a rule to block Merrick Garland in 2016, abolished the judicial filibuster to install Neil Gorsuch, then ignored his own…
Michigan woman denied chronic pain medication due to cannabis use
Narmin Jarrous has been using medical cannabis for two years, and has been open about it with her doctor in the Ascension medical system. Over that time she has been able to narrow the use of some drugs to control a painful endometriosis condition down to one. Because of that history, it was quite a…
Detroit has a new electronic music-centric bar and art gallery just in time for Movement
The organizers of Detroit’s annual Movement music festival, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, surprised electronic music fans earlier this month when they announced a pandemic-friendly limited-capacity “Micro Movement” fest. Instead of being held at its typical spot in Hart Plaza during Memorial Day Weekend, this year’s ad hoc festival will be…
Republican senator wants critical race theory out of Michigan schools
Michigan Sen. Lana Theis introduced legislation on Thursday that would prevent K-12 schools from teaching so-called critical race theory, a decades-old academic concept that examines systemic racism. The bill also would block educators from teaching about the “1619 Project,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times project that reexamines American history by exploring the enduring consequences…
A Detroit flight attendant was fired by Delta for calling out an internet troll
On Oct. 7, Delta Air Lines fired 26-year-old flight attendant Kiersten Bak for posts on her personal Facebook account, which they claim violate the company’s social media policy — including one in which she clapped back at an internet troll. Last June, Bak, a native of Saline, Michigan, launched a feminist merchandise company called That…
Whitmer says most pandemic orders to be lifted by Independence Day
Last month, Governor Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a “Vacc to Normal” plan to lift COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in phases 14 days after the state achieves various vaccination rate benchmarks. But when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly announced last week that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks and social distancing, it caught many…
No, 250k people did not march for Palestine in Dearborn
According to a viral tweet, more than 250,000 people marched in Detroit in support of Palestine on Tuesday. That certainly would be a sight to behold… the only problem is, it didn’t happen. Freaking awesome !!over than 250K protesters in Detroit today in solidarity with Palestinians. Who’s have imagined this view 2 weeks ago. This…
Two House Republicans from Michigan break ranks to support commission on Jan. 6 insurrection
U.S. Reps. Peter Meijer and Fred Upton, of Michigan, were among 35 House Republicans who broke ranks Wednesday to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The bill passed the House 252-175, with four-fifths of Republicans opposed. Meijer, one of just 10 Republicans who…
The pandemic forced White Castle to test a $15 per hour wage in Detroit
Much has been made lately of the current labor shortage for restaurant workers. Some business owners and conservative lawmakers have taken to the media to blame the welfare state — the pandemic relief packages’ enhanced unemployment payments and the $2,000 stimulus checks were too generous, they claim, causing lazy workers to decide to just stay…
Michigan communities join global campaign for carbon neutrality by 2050
Mayors and county commissioners are joining a global campaign to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2030 and to zero by 2050 through action at the local level. Three communities that have joined the campaign, called “Race To Zero,” are here in Michigan; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, and Ferndale. Melanie Piana, mayor of Ferndale and…
A tiki-themed pedal pub is coming to Detroit
From the folks who brought us the Detroit Rolling Pub pedal pubs and Aloha Tiki Tours boats comes a new attraction that combines both. The owners are debuting a new tiki-themed pedal pub, which they claim is the world’s first. The thatch-roof and bamboo-accented pedal pubs can seat 16. Like the Aloha Tiki Tour boats,…
Metro Detroit-based Dino Stroll event hits the road for U.S. tour of Jurassic proportions
We just got a Dino DNA test and it turns out, Michigan is totally obsessed with dinosaurs. For reasons we cannot explain nor care to question, metro Detroit has been a hotbed for dinosaur activity. Obviously, we’re not referring to real dinosaurs because, unfortunately for everyone, the Jurassic Park films are not documentaries. Animatronic life…
GOP co-chair Maddock suggests Michigan should secede from U.S.
Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock, who spread conspiracy theories about election fraud and downplayed COVID-19, suggested on Facebook that Michigan should secede from the U.S. Maddock made the remark in a post last week that included a photo of her with Nigel Farage, one of the most famous faces of “Brexit,” a reference to…
Dearborn isn’t laughing at Biden’s jokes
Chants of “free, free Palestine” and “resistance is justified when people are occupied” rang out across Dearborn on Tuesday, as thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors returned to the streets, amid President Joe Biden’s visit to Ford Motor Co.’s Rouge plant. Though Biden came to Dearborn to tout his support for electric vehicles, his administration’s steadfast position…
Savage Love: Shafted
I’m a European heterosexual girl, and reading your column from afar has been a good way for me to better know the sex world! I’m wondering if you have advice for me about a “faster” way to do blow jobs. Or rather a way to make my boyfriend come faster from them. I like doing…
You can learn a lot about Republicans based on what they tolerate
Don’t put Liz Cheney on a pedestal. She’s an unreconstructed neocon foaming at the mouth for a new cold war with China. Her heroism involves acknowledging the truth and saying it out loud — in a sane world, a low bar, not something that warrants an ovation. But this is not a sane world. And…
Free Will Astrology (May 19-25)
ARIES: March 21 – April 19: Aries playwright Samuel Beckett wrote the play Waiting for Godot. At one point in the tale, the character named Estragon suggests it might be possible, even desirable, to “dance first and think afterwards.” In response, the character named Pozzo says, “By all means, nothing simpler. It’s the natural order.”…
