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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

Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $50 million ad campaign featuring homemade testimonial videos from remorseful voters

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Donald Trump, election, politics, Republicans, Political Action Committee, Republican Voters Against Trump, Joe Biden

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

No longer just a local joke, Michigan Republicans are now a national punchline

Tags: Politics & Elections, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Michigan Republican Party, Donald Trump

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

Trump runs a blood-curdling campaign of doom and gloom, fear and smear

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Views & Opinions, Donald Trump, 2024 election, Macomb County, Joe Biden

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

The Quinnipiac University survey also found strong support among Democrats for Gov. Whitmer to run for president in the future

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Media, News, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, 2024 presidential election

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

If so, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson will need to learn Russian

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Media, Views & Opinions, Lapointe, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Dearborn, Hamtramck, Listen to Michigan, Michigan Arab Americans, Michigan Muslims, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Republican Party, Slideshow

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