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The problem with Duggan’s Land Value Tax plan for Detroit
While the mayor touts its benefits as a development tool, others see it as a land grab
By Russ Bellant
Tags: Metro Detroit, Government, Views & Opinions, Land Value Tax, Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit taxes, Michigan legislature, Cover Story
How an artist-turned-tech startup founder envisions a better life for Detroit’s Morningside neighborhood
The believer
By Eleanore Catolico
Tags: Metro Detroit, Local Businesses, Longform, Transportation, DaTrice Clark, Morningside, Detroit, Detroit bus system, digital redlining in Detroit, tech entrepreneurs in Detroit, TechTown Detroit, Black Tech Saturdays, Cover Story
His $70 million bank heist would have made the perfect film — if only Hollywood asked first
In ‘Heist 88,’ Courtney B. Vance plays a big-time thief, without input of the man behind the crime
By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Crime, Movies, Heist 88, Courtney B. Vance, Armand D. Moore, true crime in Detroit, Cover Story, Slideshow, Video
How some Michigan Muslims united with extremist Republicans against LGBTQ+ rights
Unholy alliance
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, LGBTQ+, Longform, Politics & Government, Hamtramck, Mayor Amer Ghalib, LGBTQ+ rights in Michigan, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn, Muslims in Metro Detroit, Cover Story
A silver single’s sojourn into Detroit’s online matchmaking scene
Dotage dating
By Anonymous
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Longform, SilverSingles, online dating in Detroit, Cover Story
Rising costs and gentrification force locals out of Detroit’s downtown and Midtown
As real estate prices soar, Detroiters struggle to maintain their homes and communities
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Disability Rights, News, Real Estate, Longform, Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, Little Caesars Arena, District Detroit, senior citizens in Detroit, housing issues in Detroit, Cover Story
At queer prom, a trio of Southwest Detroit teenagers cultivate belonging for LGBTQ+ youth
Plastic spiders and fake blood and real joy
Tags: Metro Detroit News, LGBTQ+, Southwest Detroit, LGBTQ+ youth in Detroit, Jezebel's Inferno, Cover Story
The unsolved rap murders that shook Detroit and captivated social media sleuths
Triple terror
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Crime, Music, Montoya Givens, Amani Kelly, Dante Wicker, Highland Park, Detroit hip-hop, Cover Story
In northwest Detroit, a people-powered food pantry restores dignity for stunned neighbors, one box of oatmeal at a time
The first responders to hunger
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Longform, Brightmoor, Detroit food pantries, Brightmoor Connection Food Pantry, Rev. Roslyn Bouier, Cover Story
Black Detroiters are fleeing the city at an alarming rate
We spoke to 10 former Detroiters about why they left, where they went, and whether they have any regrets
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Longform, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Black Detroiters, Cover Story
After getting kicked out of the house as a teenager, one young woman now wants to save Detroit’s lost children
Nowhere home
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Longform, Amber Matthews, homelessness in Detroit, The Detroit Phoenix Center, Cover Story
Detroit’s long history of evicting Black people for profit
There’s a human cost to the city’s failure to enforce its new right to counsel ordinance
By Eli Day
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, right to counsel, renters, landlords, slumlords, Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit City Council, Cover Story
How a Detroit firefighter’s death might have sent an innocent man to prison
Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part I)
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Longform, Mario Willis, Maxine Willis, Walter Harris, Detroit Fire Department, Cover Story
A hipper Hazel Park? Why the longtime blue-collar suburb is experiencing a renaissance
From horse-racing to high-end pop-ups
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Hazel Park, Frame, Metro Detroit, Detroit, Oakland County, Cover Story
Community organizers challenged Bedrock’s latest Hudson’s site tax break in Detroit — and nearly won
Making Goliath stumble
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Bedrock, Dan Gilbert, Hudson's site, Detroit People's Platform, Mary Sheffield, Cover Story
Nearly 40 years ago, a Metro Times reporter helped turn the killing of Vincent Chin into a movement for Asian American rights
‘It’s not fair’
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Vincent Chin, Helen Zia, Detroit, Asian American, hate crime, Cover Story
Detroiters overwhelmingly voted for reparations. What happens next?
Several questions now loom over Proposal R’s victory
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, reparations, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Proposal R, Cover Story
Detroit and Macomb County have the lowest vaccination rates in the region. Here’s how they’re preparing for a potential COVID-19 winter surge.
Tags: Local News, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, Detroit, Macomb County, Cover Story
Is Michigan’s COVID-19 contact tracing app working?
Tags: Local News, COVID-19, Michigan, coronavirus, MI COVID Alert, contact tracing, Cover Story
A guide to Detroit’s election on Nov. 2
By Lee DeVito, Alex Washington and Steve Neavling
Tags: Local News, Detroit, 2021 election, Mike Duggan, Denzel McCampbell, Proposal R, Proposal E, Cover Story
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
By Randiah Camille Green
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners