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Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
A group called White Lives Matter Michigan took credit for the hateful messages
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Media, Hate groups in metro Detroit, White Lives Matter, Michigan, metro Detroit, billboards, Billboard4Me, 5 Star Outdoor, Brownstown, Mount Clemens, Hazel Park
Lawsuit alleges Detroit police commissioners ‘sabotaged’ efforts to resolve backlog of citizen complaints
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
RFK Jr. secures ballot access in Michigan as potential spoiler
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
Michigan communities are raking in benefits of legalized weed
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
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
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
Lapointe: Rashida Tlaib now has a Fox stalker
Plus: Crumbley precedent, Michigan’s abortion leadership, and measles resurgence
By Joe Lapointe
Tags: Michigan, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Rashida Tlaib, Oxford shooting, COVID-19, abortion rights in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer
Wayne County public defender sues judges for alleged bias against lower-income defendants
“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
Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study
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
Right-wing fraudsters fined $1.25M for racist robocall scheme in Michigan, other states
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
Grosse Pointe group sued again for defiant construction of $45M performing arts center
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
Disability justice groups demand more resources in Detroit’s budget
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
Detroit City Council takes action after study suggests lowest valued homes were overtaxed
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
Lawsuit seeks to save trees, protect residents at contaminated AB Ford Park in Detroit
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
Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests
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
Lapointe: Trump’s trail of ‘blood’ goes back (at least) to Michigan
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
Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway hospitalized
First responders were called to the popular judge’s Grosse Pointe Park home on Wednesday afternoon
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Wayne County, court, Wayne County Circuit Court, Dana Hathaway, court
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
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Education, Oakland University, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, animal research, education, Oakland County, Michael Budkie, genotoxin, research
Two Detroit cops used excessive force when they killed a Black man in 2018, jury finds
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
Mobile health unit offers free long COVID screening to metro Detroiters
Detroit has the second highest rate of long COVID in the nation
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit, Health Care, Government, COVID-19, Joe Tate, Michigan health care
State agency probes Warren Police Department’s alleged offer to hide misconduct investigation
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
Side Hustle Lounge opens in downtown Detroit just in time for the NFL Draft
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley
By Lee DeVito