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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

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

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

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

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 event’s huge dance party will feature Detroit DJ Problematic Black Hottie

Tags: Culture, News, Things to Do, Visual Art, Ann Arbor events, Ann Arbor festivals, FoolMoon festival, FestiFools, Detroit events, things to do this weekend in Ann Arbor, music, art, Slideshow

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

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

Organizers hope to expand the day of music, art, and poetry with more interactive activities

Tags: Arts, Music, Things to Do, MAP Fest, Detroit events, Detroit festivals, music, art, poetry, Detroit music, Highland Park, Avalon Village, Mama Shu, Rock Local Entertainment Cafe, Detroit artists, Detroit talent, Slideshow

If you want the full experience, you may need to take a trip to Ohio

Tags: Michigan, Nature, Things to Do, 2024 total solar eclipse, Toledo, Detroit, Slideshow

The workshops will be a collaboration between Kubat and guests to write a song inspired by select artworks within the DIA

Tags: Michigan Music, Education, Music, News, Things to Do, Visual Art, Women's History Month, Audra Kubat, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit music, songwriting workshops, Detroit art, Detroit events, Detroit concerts, things to do in Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)

Daryl Vance was on life support for 20 days before he died in September from blunt force trauma to his head

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, Juwan Brown, Daryl Vance, Detroit, Garden Bowl, assault, Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison

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

A portion of A.B. Ford Park remained open even after the city became aware of dangerous toxins

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Government, A.B. Ford Park, environmental contamination, lead, arsenic, Detroit, Jefferson Chalmers, east side

‘Let’s raise a glass together. To you. To us. To Detroit,’ the longstanding brewery says

Tags: Arts, Bars, Local Businesses, Things to Do, Critics’ Picks, Atwater Brewery, 313 Day, Detroit, 313 Day events, Detroit events, Atwater Brewery & Tap House, Slideshow

Set for Sunday, March 10, it’s also considered the unofficial start of spring around here

Tags: Metro Detroit, Things to Do, Bars, Critics’ Picks, Saint Patrick's Day, Corktown, Detroit, Irish Americans in metro Detroit

Even for the city of Detroit, this level of secrecy is unusual

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Government, A.B. Ford Park, Detroit, parks, east side, Nike Missile plant, contamination, Mayor Duggan, trees

The previous record will be surpassed by an entire five degrees

Tags: Michigan, Environment, Nature, News, Detroit, metro Detroit, climate change in Michigan, Michigan weather, Slideshow

The annual event raises money for Special Olympics Michigan

Tags: Things to Do, Critics’ Picks, Things to Do, Polar Plunge, Detroit, Detroit River, Special Olympics Michigan

The city will remove more than 250 trees, some of which are 100 years old and used by eagles

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Trees, A.B. Ford Park, Jefferson Chalmers, neighborhood, east side, Detroit, environmental contamination, soil, parks