ED. NOTE: THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN LIFTED. MORE HERE. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) has just announced that the boil water advisory for parts of Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park has been extended until Friday, March 3. According...
The state of Michigan Friday put 38 struggling schools on notice. After years of rock-bottom test scores and disappointing results, the schools were informed that they’re in serious danger of having to shut their doors forever in June. “Because we...
CBI in downtown Detroit is holding a networking event on May 12th to find people to fill entry-level IT security sales positions at its Detroit office called “Jumpstart Your Cybersecurity Sales Career.” The event is at Cornerstone Barrel...
Stepping out of the workforce for two decades is enough to kill any career in technology or engineering. After spending 24 years out raising her four children and teaching at a home-schooling co-op, 54-year-old Wendy MacLennan scaled a Mount Everest...
A year and a half after the city emerged from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, Detroit 2.0 is still beset by crippling bugs in the system.
If there’s a moniker that fits now, it’s Cuba of the North. Like the onetime Pearl of the Antilles, Detroit is starting to emerge from decades of economic privation with an entrepreneurial energy that’s reshaping the landscape.
Kaherl’s cure? Sticktoitvness. If you donate your time, money, or labor to help a struggling community, then run immediately to the next thing, the progress you made probably won’t stick.
“Poor people used to go down and fish. Now there are all kind all kinds of people, all kinds of restaurants. The walkway is for everyone. Now my granddaughters go there and walk for hours and hours.”
“Many Detroiters for so long have not seen progress, so they just want to see something,” said Dittmer, the director of architecture and design for Bedrock, the real estate company owned by billionaire Dan Gilbert. “What we have...
Lisa Ludwinski opened Sister Pie just about a year ago in a former beauty salon in Detroit’s West Village neighborhood. Her grandmothers grew up in Detroit proper (Ludwinski grew up in the suburbs), and after working for a year at Momofuku Milk...
Amy Haimerl’s book about their migration and renovation adventure, “Detroit Hustle,” will be out on May 3. It’s a love song sung to a house and a city, but it’s also a money memoir, one marked by ignorance at the outset and a triumph of feelings...
Multiple charges were filed against Mike Glasgow, the city’s laboratory and water quality supervisor; Mike Prysby, a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official; and Stephen Busch, the former Lansing district coordinator the DEQ’s...
“Evidence is clear that property adjacent to transit is valuable,” said Marie Donigan. “It’s like gold.”
Although focusing mostly on Chicago in this particular piece, there are implications for all American cities, including Detroit.
“Michigan has a very distinct approach to food,” said James Rigato, the restaurant’s chef and co-owner. “We’re the second-most agriculturally diverse state behind California, and the auto industry has created its own cultural influence. But because...