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Watchdog group demands termination of Oakland University researcher for mishandling dangerous toxin

The botched project caused the deaths of mice and exposed staff to a genotoxin, which can damage DNA

By Steve Neavling
Mar 20, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Education, Oakland University, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, animal research, education, Oakland County, Michael Budkie, genotoxin, research
Metro Detroit

Duggan announces changes to tax plan to address concerns by Detroit’s urban farmers

Community gardens and urban farms will be exempt from the land tax increase while side lots will see a small increase

By Randiah Camille Green
Sep 1, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Nature, Politics & Government, Detroit Land Value Tax Plan, Urban farming, Detroit property taxes, News
Cannabis News

Federal ban on marijuana means Michigan cannabis company can’t sue state agency, judge rules

Court says Viridis Laboratories lacks legal standing because it deals in ‘illegal contraband’

By Steve Neavling
Aug 4, 2023

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Viridis Laboratories, Marijuana, U.S. District Court, law, Michigan, Controlled Substances Act, Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency
Food News

Former NBA star will open soul food restaurant in downtown Detroit

Kevin Johnson is bringing Fixins' Soul Kitchen to the D

By Layla McMurtrie
Aug 2, 2023

Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Food, News, Basketball, NBA, Kevin Johnson
Food News

USA Today Wine + Food Experience launches 2023 tour at Belle Isle

Detroit executive chef Jared Bobkin leads culinary experience in upcoming tour

By Layla McMurtrie
Jul 6, 2023

Tags: Food News, Things to Do, Michigan, Detroit, Food, News, Wine, Belle Isle, Events, Restaurants
Metro Detroit

Most Detroiters are unsatisfied and would like to move, survey found

The findings paint a gloomy picture of life in Michigan’s largest city

By Steve Neavling
Jun 6, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Survey, poll, Detroit, suburbs, quality of life, education, jobs, affordable housing, Gallup, Detroit Regional Chamber
Metro Detroit

Detroit charter schools offers $100,000 salaries to certified teachers

The Detroit Academy of Arts Sciences made the offer as schools struggle with teacher shortages

By Steve Neavling
May 25, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Education, Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences, teachers, teacher salaries, education, Detroit
Michigan

Michigan school’s ban on ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirt leads to lawsuit

The phrase is a coded insult that means ‘Fuck Joe Biden’

By Steve Neavling
Apr 25, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Joe Biden, Let's Go Brandon, school, education, Tri County Area Schools, Western Michigan, First Amendment, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Michigan

Michigan students plead with lawmakers to pass more gun control laws

‘I should not be here giving this speech,’ an MSU student said

By Steve Neavling
Mar 15, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, School, education, Michigan, gun control, Michigan Legislature, red flag law, guns
Metro Detroit

Mother sues Detroit charter school after teacher struck daughter with hockey stick

The 11-year-old girl was found alone in a hallway, covered in blood

By Steve Neavling
Feb 23, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Charter school, education, Jon Marko
Metro Detroit

Romulus Community Schools reinstates superintendent who filed racial discrimination suit against the district

The school board fired Benjamin Edmondson after he filed suit

By Steve Neavling
Feb 22, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Romulus, Romulus Community schools, schools, education, Benjamin Edmondson, racial discrimination, whistleblower, lawsuit, U.S. District Court
Metro Detroit

Schoolcraft College is accused of retaliation, racial discrimination in federal lawsuit

The school was at risk of losing its accreditation due to its lack of diversity, suit states

By Steve Neavling
Nov 2, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Education, Schoolcraft College, Wayne County, lawsuit, racism, Livonia, education, racial discrimination
Michigan

Michigan educators urge action to reverse low student test scores

Data from the September release of standardized test scores showed some of the steepest learning declines for Michigan students in a half-century

By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Oct 27, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Education, Michigan, education, schools
The Incision

What the firing of a legendary yet difficult organic chemistry professor says of America’s ‘meritocracy’

How the rich and powerful game the meritocracy

By Abdul El-Sayed
Oct 21, 2022

Tags: The Incision, The Incision, college, education, chemistry, student debt crisis
Michigan

Youth pastor sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexual abuse involving Michigan Christian camp

Pastor Jesse Vargas’s victim says he ‘remorselessly stole’ her childhood

By Ryan Krull
Sep 30, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, St. Louis, St. Louis news, news, Missouri, Missouri news, Jesse Vargas, Incredible Journey, camp, New York, Michigan, Christian Camp
Michigan

Multiple brawls at football games prompted two Flint-area schools to limit spectators

The safety measures were taken after brawls broke out among spectators at a game between the Flint Jaguars and Beecher Buccaneers

By Steve Neavling
Sep 22, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Schools, education, Flint Community Schools, Football, student sports, Beecher High School, Flint High School
Michigan

How harassment and politicized issues help push Michigan teachers out of the classroom

Despite the state allocating more and more money into teacher retention and attraction, harassment, change of emotional climate in schools and politicization of K-12 school curricula has been driving teachers to leave the profession the last few years

By Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance
Sep 22, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Education, Michigan, education
Metro Detroit

Fundraiser launched after thieves steal truck packed with school supplies in Detroit

Hey Y’all Detroit relied on the truck to deliver nutritional food, hygiene kits, clothes, books, and school supplies

By Steve Neavling
Sep 6, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Books, education, school, Hey Y'all Detroit, Charmane Neal, fundraiser, GoFundme
Metro Detroit

Detroit Metro Times gets top rating from NewsGuard

The service ranks the credibility of publications based on nine criteria

By Lee DeVito
Aug 25, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit Metro Times, Michigan, news, credibility
ICYMI

Two Detroit rappers are on the 2022 XXL Freshman list and a local pastry chef wins a James Beard Award: The top 10 Metro Times headlines of the week

Here's what our readers were interested in this week

By Alex Washington
Jun 17, 2022

Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, Top Ten, News, Detroit News, Metro Detroit News, Michigan News