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The former board chairman who resigned over an alleged blow job is accused of gender discrimination

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Detroit police, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Melanie White, Bryan Ferguson, gender discrimination, citizen complaints, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court

Whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will draw more votes from Biden or Trump is the subject of much debate and speculation

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Election, politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Natural Law Party, vaccines, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, President Biden, Michigan

After Mayor Monique Owens refused to let residents criticize her during a meeting, the city will create a “First Amendment Day,” among other things

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Eastpointe, Monique Owens, mayor, First Amendment, free speech, city council, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, lawsuit

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

“I know I’m doing the right thing,” Sundus Jaber says after filing whistleblower lawsuit against 35th District Court

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Sundus Jaber, 35th District Court, public defender, Regional Managed Assigned Counsel Office, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, Wayne County, Plymouth

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

The lawsuit alleges the Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation is putting residents at risk of flooding

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, lawsuit, Wayne County, Fox Creek, drain pipe, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Fox Creek Drainage District, drain easement

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

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

A hearse rolled up to the Flint funeral home to pick up the body, but no one was there

Tags: Michigan, News, Eric Mays, Flint City Council, Flint, Eric HaKeem Deontaye Mays, Sheldon Neeley, lawsuit, health insurance

Eric HaKeem Deontaye Mays alleges the vengeful city is withholding his father’s insurance information

Tags: Michigan, News, Eric Mays, Flint City Council, Flint, Eric HaKeem Deontaye Mays, Sheldon Neeley, lawsuit, health insurance

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

The lawsuit alleges a funeral home is holding Mays’s body ‘hostage’

Tags: Michigan, News, Flint, Flint City Council, Eric Mays, funeral, Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, Genesee County Circuit Court, lawsuit, Lento Law Group

Mays’s four siblings are also accused of conspiring to profit from the popular official’s death

Tags: Michigan, News, Flint, Flint City Council, Eric Mays, funeral, Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, Genesee County Circuit Court, lawsuit, Lento Law Group

‘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

Polls show an increasing number of Black voters are pulling away from the Democratic Party

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Sheldon Neeley, Flint, Sam Riddle, National Action Network, Michigan, Michigan Democratic Party, President Biden, Donald Trump, election, politics

Traverse City’s Studio 8 Hair Lab claims it has the right to discriminate based on gender identity

Tags: Michigan, News, LGBTQ+, Civil Rights, Michigan, Studio 8 Hair Lab, Traverse City, Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, transphobia in Michigan, transgender rights in Michigan, Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act

Once I became a man, it occurred to me how cool my family cookbook actually was

Tags: The Food Issue, Food & Drink Features, Views & Opinions, Polish cuisine in metro Detroit, COVID-19, Kroger, Cover Story, Slideshow