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The cannabis industry has seen tremendous growth since the state’s first adult-use dispensaries opened in December 2019, with sales hitting unprecedented levels

Tags: Canna-Business, Local Businesses, Weed, Michigan cannabis industry, Michigan cannabis laws, Detroit, Hazel Park, Cover Story

At first, the sign was mocked for falling short of expectations, especially considering its hefty price tag

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Views & Opinions, Detroit, NFL Draft, Mayor Duggan, sign, I-94, social media, Instagram, Slideshow

Plus: Crumbley precedent, Michigan’s abortion leadership, and measles resurgence

Tags: Michigan, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Rashida Tlaib, Oxford shooting, COVID-19, abortion rights in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer

Activists and the Detroit City Council say the city is cheating lower-income residents by illegally and disproportionately overtaxing homes

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, property tax foreclosures, homes, evictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Treasurer Sabree, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Detroit City Council

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged with multiple felonies for spreading misinformation to Black voters in the Detroit area

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Crime, Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman, New York, Michigan, Detroit, Black voters, election, politics, Letitia James, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

More than 128,000 Detroiters – or one out of five residents – have at least one disability

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Disability Rights, Paratransit, Detroit Department of Transportation, Detroit, people with disabilities, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, budget, wheelchairs

Activists are worried about another wave of foreclosures based on inflated property taxes for some homes

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, property taxes, Coalition for Property Tax Justice

The city kept the park open nearly two years after excessive contaminants were discovered

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Pollution, AB Ford Park, Jefferson Chalmers, Detroit, east side, contamination, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Michigan Environmental Protection Act

By contrast, the most expensive homes were the least likely to be overtaxed, according to the University of Chicago

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Bernadette Atuahene, Detroit, property taxes, overassessments, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Coalition for Property Tax Justice

The fatal shooting prompted the police union to award the cops as “District Officers of the Year”

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Lamont Johnson, Tyler Nagy, Raul Martinez, lawsuit, police brutality, lawsuit, shooting, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, excessive force

Detroit has the second highest rate of long COVID in the nation

Tags: Metro Detroit, Health Care, Government, COVID-19, Joe Tate, Michigan health care

Ex-Commissioner William Dwyer accused again of concealing claims of officer wrongdoing

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Warren Police Department, William Dwyer, wandering cops in Michigan, Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, MCOLES, Michigan, Warren, police misconduct

If you want the full experience, you may need to take a trip to Ohio

Tags: Michigan, Nature, Things to Do, 2024 total solar eclipse, Toledo, Detroit, Slideshow

Daryl Vance was on life support for 20 days before he died in September from blunt force trauma to his head

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Juwan Brown, Daryl Vance, Detroit, Garden Bowl, assault, Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison

A medical resident says he was fired in retaliation after notifying his supervisor of a series of avoidable missteps

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit Receiving, hospital, malpractice, Detroit, lawsuit, internal medicine, whistleblower

A portion of A.B. Ford Park remained open even after the city became aware of dangerous toxins

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Government, A.B. Ford Park, environmental contamination, lead, arsenic, Detroit, Jefferson Chalmers, east side

‘Let’s raise a glass together. To you. To us. To Detroit,’ the longstanding brewery says

Tags: Arts, Bars, Local Businesses, Things to Do, Critics’ Picks, Atwater Brewery, 313 Day, Detroit, 313 Day events, Detroit events, Atwater Brewery & Tap House, Slideshow

Set for Sunday, March 10, it’s also considered the unofficial start of spring around here

Tags: Metro Detroit, Things to Do, Bars, Critics’ Picks, Saint Patrick's Day, Corktown, Detroit, Irish Americans in metro Detroit

‘You literally fucked with the wrong person. I don’t take threats well,’ Councilman Ash-Shafii says

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Khursheed Ash-Shafii, Glenda McDonald, threat, Highland Park, Great Lakes Water authority, water deal, michigan, Michigan State Police

Even for the city of Detroit, this level of secrecy is unusual

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Government, A.B. Ford Park, Detroit, parks, east side, Nike Missile plant, contamination, Mayor Duggan, trees