Bridge is doubling its state education team, hiring award-winning reporter Tracie Mauriello in collaboration with Chalkbeat, a leading education news nonprofit.
Border businesses and the state’s tourism industry suffer as COVID limits prevent Canadian visitors for another month at least. And state residents with the travel bug or property in Canada also can’t cross. One official said it could be Thanksgiving before the border opens.
Detroit schools were once a tough sell. But by boosting starting pay above $50,000 and offering $15,000 bonuses for special education teachers, the city is attracting educators even during a statewide teacher shortage.
A House bill would bar 24 Michigan cities from imposing taxes on non-resident workers. Critics say that would be ‘catastrophic,’ but one Republican says ‘Thomas Jefferson would be proud.’
With classrooms shuttered across Detroit earlier this school year, leaders at Detroit Leadership Academy, a Brightmoor-area charter school, told neighborhood leaders that many students didn’t have a space where they could focus.
More than 20,000 Michiganders have applied for help to pay their rent through a federally-funded rent aid program that launched two months ago, reflecting an ongoing need for housing assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A data-based study makes a case for major policy reform to address the widening gap between white people and African-American and Latino residents in Detroit.
A proposed bill at the federal level would allow banking institutions to accept funds from cannabis-related businesses. So far, it has bipartisan support, and stakeholders say the legislation would create greater access to the industry for budding Detroit entrepreneurs.
Detroit’s police chief announces retirement, and observers say he would be the likely front runner for the Republican nomination for governor in 2022. His reputation in Detroit is more complicated.
Detroit Charter Revision Commission says the City’s inadequate funding to inform residents of proposed changes to the City Charter is a form of “voter suppression.”
There’s no limit to how often ‘good neighbors’ can be paid to bring in Detroiters for vaccines. Mayor Mike Duggan said the payments are worth it to boost the city’s woeful vaccination rates.
DMC was sold to an out-of-town, for-profit business in 2010, with a promise that it would continue its mission as a safety net hospital. The current owner promises to keep that vow.
Many couldn’t watch. Others reminded themselves to breathe. When a former Minnesota police officer was convicted of George Floyd’s murder, they said they could exhale. For now.
For two straight summers, residents of Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood watched water pour into basements and pool in streets, a result of coastal flooding that will become increasingly common throughout the Great Lakes as climate change progresses.
