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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
Detroit’s East Riverfront now connects to Belle Isle
The vision for Detroit’s riverfront transformation was first set in motion two decades ago
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Nature, Belle Isle trails, Detroit riverfront, Detroit trails, Mayor Mike Duggan, Slideshow
Lapointe: Despite a recent shooting nearby, Detroit’s Riverwalk is a bustling success
Soon, you can walk, run, or bike from downtown to Belle Isle
By Joe Lapointe
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Crime, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Detroit Riverwalk, Belle Isle, downtown Detroit, Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park, Mayor Mike Duggan, Slideshow
Detroit’s unemployment rate drops below 6% for first time in 23 years
Despite the job growth, opportunities still aren’t equal
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit jobs, unemployment rate, economy, District Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan
Detroit plans $45 million for digital equity
The University of Michigan says Detroit has the lowest rate of internet connectivity in the United States
By Scott McClallen, The Center Square
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit digital divide, digital redlining in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Christine Burkette, social equity
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
Why did you leave Detroit? Metro Times wants to speak with you.
For decades, the Motor City has lost residents. We want to hear from them.
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit population, Mayor Mike Duggan
Detroit Land Bank reaches $1.5M settlement over demolition claims
The city was accused of failing to substantiate $13 million in payments to contractors
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit Land Bank Authority, Detroit demolitions, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Mayor Mike Duggan
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
Opinion: Does ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ really exist for people with disabilities?
Detroit’s paratransit crisis highlights the problems with how people with disabilities are perceived
By Kelli Finger
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Views & Opinions, Diversity equity and inclusion, disabilities, paratransit, Mayor Mike Duggan
Blind Detroiters tell paratransit service horror stories to Dept. of Justice
The meeting was called after City Council canceled its contract with Trandev, citing shoddy service. The DOJ is investigating possible civil rights violations.
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Transportation, Detroit, Transdev, Mayor Mike Duggan, City Council, blind, disabilities, Department of Justice
Opinion: Detroit’s Birwood Wall is exactly why CRT should be taught in schools
The concrete wall on Eight Mile and Wyoming received a historic marker
By Alex Washington
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Views & Opinions, CRT, Birwood Wall, Critical Race Theory, Historic Marker, Mike Duggan, Mayor Duggan, Mayor Mike Duggan, City of Detroit
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
Opinion: Duggan continues his destructive path of demolition and underdevelopment
By Paul Jones III
Tags: Views, Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit, American Motors Corp.
Detroit’s convention center renamed... again
Tags: TCF Center, Huntington Place, Detroit, Cobo, Cobo Hall, Cobo Center, Mayor Mike Duggan, convention center
Mayor Duggan (reluctantly) endorses Gabriela Santiago-Romero in Detroit City Council District 6 race
Tags: Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, District 6, Raquel Castañeda-Lopez
Detroit mayoral candidate Anthony Adams says Duggan is afraid to debate him. The Duggan campaign says that's not the issue.
Tags: Detroit, 2021, Mayor Mike Duggan, Anthony Adams, campaign, debate
ICYMI: We lost the war in Afghanistan, Detroit population drops, Tesla tech investigated, and more
By Metro Times editorial staff
Tags: ICYMI, Afghanistan, Taliban, Joe Biden, Tesla, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan
Meet the candidates running long shot campaigns against Detroit’s Mayor Mike Duggan in 2021
Tags: Metro Detroit, Detroit, primary, Mayor Mike Duggan, Cover Story
R.I.P. extramarital scandals... and congrats on the nuptials, Mayor Duggan
Tags: Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit, affair, marriage, divorce
Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants
Tigers fixing up run-down Comerica Park ahead of Opening Day with $30M investment
Royal Oak’s Hideaway has been transformed into the bar from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’