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Sunday, June 23, 2019

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Sheefy McFly was arrested by Detroit police while painting a mural commissioned by the city

Posted By Lee DeVito on Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:00 AM

A popular street artist was arrested by Detroit police last week after he was initially believed to be vandalizing city property. He was actually painting a mural that he had a permit from the city to create. Sheefy McFly, whose real name is Tashif Turner, was working on a...

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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Detroit's Count Mack raps, draws, cuts, and films in new video for his track 'G-String'

Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:47 PM

Detroit visual artist and rapper Vaughn Taormina, AKA Count Mack, is out with a new video for his latest track and it's a twofer. For "G-String," Taormina not only rapped and co-produced, he cut out his hand-drawn illustrations and photographed them in stop-motion to give the video a flip-book...

Friday, May 18, 2018

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Bloomfield Hills high schoolers hack database to give themselves better grades

Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:22 AM

Leave it to kids in one of Michigan's best school districts to have figured out how to hack the district's grading system and (presumably) give themselves A's. A message posted to the Bloomfield Hills Schools website alerts parents that "a couple" students made "some poor choices lately," hacking into...

Thursday, March 1, 2018

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Eminem makes history as first rapper to score more than 100 million RIAA song awards

Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:49 AM

Eminem has achieved another career milestone, racking up more than 100 million Recording Industry Association of America song awards to become the second-most successful artist in the world, in terms of singles. Em surpassed No. 3 Taylor Swift for the honor and landed just behind Rihanna, who is No....

Monday, November 27, 2017

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Eminem doppelganger channels his alter ego in colorful, bong-filled exhibit

Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:36 AM

Have you ever been mistaken for someone else? Or maybe you've been told you look like a celebrity? Though the chance of you having a true doppelganger is one in a trillion, you likely fall into the same category as Philidelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte, who has been exploring the...

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

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Wayne County Commissioner fears hazardous waste dumping in Romulus could cause environmental disaster

Posted By Alysa Zavala-Offman on Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:56 AM

A pair of hazardous waste deep injection wells will be the subject of an upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency public meeting and hearing in the city of Romulus. Environmental Geo-Technologies, LLC owns the wells located at 28470 Citrin Dr. in Romulus, and the company wants to increase the pressure at which...

Thursday, August 10, 2017

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ICYMI: Expert on Detroit's 'illegal foreclosures' featured on 'Democracy Now'

Posted By Michael Jackman on Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:29 PM

If we've been talking about Bernadette Atuahene a lot recently, it's because the researcher has uncovered a pattern of inflated assessments and just-out-of-reach exemptions now resulting in tax foreclosures that are arguably illegal under Michigan's constitution. More troubling still, Atuahene's research found that the inflated assessments hit the poorest...

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

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A wealthy Birmingham businessman lost his fight to keep Hamtramck trashy

Posted By Tom Perkins on Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:09 AM

A judge has ordered wealthy Hamtramck businessman Henry Velleman to pay fines of $100 each on two tickets for littering that he initially fought. Velleman, who lives in Birmingham, is also Hamtramck's largest downtown property owner. Of 35 Velleman-owned downtown district commercial properties identified in public records earlier this...

Monday, June 5, 2017

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Flint's Dr. Hanna-Attisha slams emergency management in TED talk

Posted By Lee DeVito on Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:36 AM

The pediatrician whistleblower who exposed the Flint water crisis criticized the "lost democracy" during the city's emergency management in a recently released TEDMED talk. Originally speaking in 2016, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discussed how Flint's near-bankruptcy led the city to be overseen by an emergency manager — whose job "was...

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

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Detroit considers creating first Green Light camera corridor to curb crime in Corktown

Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:16 PM

When developers last week broke ground on a project that will bring additional housing and retail to the area of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull, they were standing behind a bar that, just two days prior, had fallen victim to its third break-in of the year. Police say thieves cracked...

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