Detroit

President Joe Biden will attend the NAACP’s Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit. His visit follows a prominent warning that Biden is not doing enough to connect with Black voters.

Michigan families say the state’s behavioral health system is overwhelmed and understaffed. A new Detroit clinic offers a jump start on mental health — sometimes just days after birth.

Detroit will not see a net gain in new jobs or local tax revenue for the estimated 850 GM RenCen employees.

General Motors announced that it will be relocating its global headquarters from Detroit’s iconic Renaissance Center to the Hudson’s building downtown in 2025.

A child in Detroit has measles and may have exposed others to the highly contagious virus, according to health officials. It’s the fifth known case this year in Michigan, which had gone four years without.

The first year of Detroit’s reparations task force was defined by four resignations, mismanaged meetings, private decisions and public spats.

New legislative maps ordered by a federal court panel reduce the number of districts that include both Detroit and its northern suburbs in an effort to restore electoral power of Black voters.

The $4.2 million deal gives U-M a prominent location for its deeper expansion into metro Detroit as the health system plots statewide growth.

New Detroit-area state House maps are better for Black representation, a federal court rules. No incumbents will be drawn out of their districts, and the statewide map still tends to favor Democrats.

Michigan mapping commissioners give themselves a 40% raise to redraw political lines struck down by court for disenfranchising Black voters.

A $500,000 appropriation from last year’s state budget will take Detroit-based organization to Lansing and Flint.

Critics challenging Michigan’s redistricting commission in court argue the latest proposed House map unfairly benefits incumbents and doesn’t address all of the issues that prompted a federal court to order a redraw.

Precincts had in general a low turnout and a contingent of residents who cast “uncommitted” votes in protest of Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.

The new map would keep more Detroit-based districts within city limits and increase Black majorities in several state House seats.

Internet gaming — like poker on your phone — is surging in Michigan. Receipts totaled $1.92 billion last year, and that’s meant higher than expected tax revenues for the state and Detroit.

Detroit’s Frances Harper Inn and Eden Springs Park in Benton Harbor are among the 19 places listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

Bridge Michigan analyzed House maps under consideration to replace those deemed illegal. The new districts are less overwhelmingly Democratic and far more homogenous racially.

The commission came up with 14 options for redrawing metro Detroit state House districts. Now the whittling down begins.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to press pause on the remapping sessions underway for metro Detroit political districts while the commission appeals a lower court’s decision that found their original maps unconstitutional.

Research shows Detroit’s buried streams disproportionately impact redlined neighborhoods.