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From a fitness studio to a gelateria, Midtown and New Center land 6 new businesses

Other businesses include a restaurant, hair salon, waxing and lashing studio, and bridal boutique

By Steve Neavling
Sep 8, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Retail, Development, retailers, business, Midtown, Detroit, the Platform, restaurants, Pure Barre
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

Detroiters slam regulators for lax approach to stinky Stellantis plant

A nauseating smell has been wafting from the plant on Detroit's east side for more than a year.

By Steve Neavling
Oct 20, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Stellantis, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Detroit, consent order, Michigan, environmental racism, environmental, air pollution, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy
Metro Detroit

Workers at a Starbucks in Royal Oak seeks to unionize as movement grows in Michigan

Twelve Starbucks stores in Michigan have formed a union since May.

By Steve Neavling
Oct 11, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Starbucks, Royal Oak, union, coffee, coffee shop, business
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
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
Metro Detroit

Striking workers at Great Lakes Coffee withdraw from union effort as company closes stores

After a bitter battle to unionize, baristas are forced to move on

By Steve Neavling
Aug 15, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Coffee, Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co., labor unions, Detroit, business
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
Michigan

Michigan Democrats pledge to mount a fierce fight to protect abortion rights

In response to a leak of draft on the SCOTUS decision on ‘Roe v. Wade,’ Gov. Whitmer says she’ll ‘keep fighting like hell’ to ensure abortion remains safe and accessible

By Steve Neavling
May 3, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Abortion Rights, Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Michigan, law, Gov. Whitmer, Rashida Tlaib, Gary Peters, Debbie Stabenow
Metro Detroit

Demolition set to begin this week on toxic industrial site that oozed toxic slime in metro Detroit

The green slime was groundwater contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium

By Steve Neavling
Apr 18, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environmental, Madison Heights, Oakland County, Jeremy Moss, state Senate, Michigan, Gary McGillivray, Oakland County Board of Commissioners, Gary Alfred Sayers, hexavalent chromium
Metro Detroit

A new Aaliyah record, Detroit auto show return, and a new name for TCF Center: The top ten Metro Times headlines of the week

By Alex Washington
Dec 17, 2021

Tags: Aaliyah, News, News Hits, Top Ten Headlines, Metro Times
Metro Detroit

State launches website amid air quality violations at Stellantis plants

By Steve Neavling
Nov 4, 2021

Tags: Stellantis, Detroit, pollution, environmental, Michigan, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, environmental racism
Metro Detroit

Whitmer orders state agencies to find alternatives to 'forever chemicals'

By Steve Neavling
Oct 28, 2021

Tags: Gov. Whitmer, executive order, PFAS, environmental, Michigan, Sen. Brinks, Great Lakes PFAS Action Network
Metro Detroit

A 'censored' mural, Mom's Spaghetti comes up, Faster Horses death cause revealed: the top 10 Detroit Metro Times headlines this week

By Lee DeVito
Oct 22, 2021

Tags: Detroit, news, Sheefy McFly, Eminem, Bengals, Mom's Spaghetti
Metro Detroit

Protesters temporarily shut down controversial Line 5 pipeline

By Steve Neavling
Oct 20, 2021

Tags: Enbridge, direct action, protest, Tuscola County, Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, Line 5 pipeline, oil, Great Lakes, environmental
Metro Detroit

Whitmer warns of potential for ‘catastrophic oil spill’ after Canada invokes 1977 pipeline treaty in Line 5 dispute

By Steve Neavling
Oct 5, 2021

Tags: Michigan, Enbridge, Line 5, Great Lakes, environmental, Gov. Whitmer, Canada, oil, 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty
Metro Detroit

City Council approves ordinance to protect Detroit River from another industrial collapse

By Steve Neavling
Sep 28, 2021

Tags: Detroit River, Detroit, Detroit City Council, environmental, Detroit River Protection Ordinance, pollution