Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Friday, July 31, 2026
Detroit invests millions to get families into permanent housing
“Our goal isn’t simply to help families leave shelters,” she said. “Our goal is to help them build lasting, long, stable lives and achieve self-sufficiency and ensure that they never return to homelessness again.”…
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund celebrates "creating new farmers" this Juneteenth
“Essentially right now we are an engine for creating new farmers,” Knox said. “A lot of folks who've never been a part of the urban ag scene are able to come through us and buy land for the first time and begin this process, and also become a part of a larger community.”…
Friday, June 12, 2026
Detroiter says ICE agents broke her knee, disputing agency’s account
Yerlys Moreno López said ICE agents forced her to the ground after a May 19 car chase and crash, breaking her knee and causing other injuries that required emergency surgery. The agency claims she sustained the injuries in the crash itself. Medical records submitted by her attorneys appear to support her account. At the hospital a few hours after the incident, Moreno López repeatedly told doctors that she was injured after getting out of her vehicle...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Detroit's population grows for third consecutive year
"For decades the story told about Detroit was always one of decline," Sheffield said. "Year after year, families left, population shrank, and too many people counted Detroit out. But today the numbers tell a different story, they tell the real story of what is happening in our city. Long term Detroiters are choosing to stay and new residents are choosing to call Detroit home."
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
Detroit man freed 27 years to the day after wrongful conviction
A Detroit man is now free after spending exactly 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
Roy Blackmon was released from a state correctional facility in Ionia on Tuesday, after a judge agreed to vacate his convictions from a 1998 murder. His lawyers with the University of Michigan Law School's Innocence Clinic say his convictions rested solely on the testimony of witnesses who were coerced into implicating him by Detroit police officers at the time...
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Sheffield, in first State of the City, says Detroit will spread resurgence "block by block"
They include a department devoted to addressing violence without police involvement…
The mayor also announced that starting Wednesday, all students at Detroit's public and charter K-12 schools can ride city buses for free with a student ID. And she issued a challenge to Detroit's corporate leaders and employers: "If Detroit can pay its workers a living wage, you can too." (Sheffield recently signed an executive order meant to jumpstart the process of ensuring every city worker meets a minimum income threshold).
And she says that Detroit is now the largest city in the country participating in the Rx Kids program. So far, the program has approved over 1,200 applications, and distributed $1.6 million in cash assistance to Detroit mothers and infants, or people who are expecting a new baby.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Detroit Future City proposes land conservancy to convert vacant lots into parks
"There is a prairie that we installed. So that has about 90 different species of native grasses and forbs and flowers. And then there are about 40 different species of trees on this site. About 200 were planted," she said...
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Donald Trump said ending fraud could balance the federal budget. But the math doesn’t add up - PolitiFact
The highest nationwide estimate puts U.S. fraud losses at $521 billion.
Even if all of that could be recouped, it would amount to less than a third of the 2025 deficit of $1.775 trillion...
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Fewest homicides in decades: Detroit reports historic drop in violent crime
Detroit's 2025 homicide rate is a significant drop. This is the first time in decades that the number of reported homicides has dropped below 200...
Friday, December 5, 2025
RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: ‘Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art’
A 15-year quest ends with a monument, drawing crowds and nostalgia as Detroit embraces its cult-film past…
Thursday, July 31, 2025
More than 50% of Detroit students regularly miss class – and schools alone can’t solve the problem
This is related to the depth of social and economic inequalities that Detroit families face. Compared to other major cities, Detroit has higher rates of poverty, unemployment and crime. It has worse public health conditions. And even its winters are some of the coldest of major U.S. cities. All of these factors make it harder for kids to attend school.
Rates of chronic absenteeism spiked in Detroit during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they did statewide. The Detroit Public Schools Community District has come close to returning to its pre-pandemic levels of absenteeism. The rates were 66% in the 2023-24 school year compared to 62% in the school year right before the pandemic began, 2018-19…
…we need to recognize that chronic absenteeism is not a problem that schools can solve alone. While educators work to improve conditions within schools, policymakers and community leaders can take responsibility for the broader factors that influence attendance.
This could look like investing more resources and fostering collaboration across sectors such as health care, housing, transportation and social services to better support students and their families. Community organizations can play a role too, offering wraparound services such as mental health care, access to transportation, and after-school programming, all of which can support families. In the meantime, educators can focus on what they can control: strengthening communication with families, building supportive relationships and helping families connect with existing services that can remove attendance barriers…
Sunday, January 5, 2025
‘It’s buzzing here’: City's revival takes shape after decades of decay
Many have chosen to come to Detroit rather than Boston, Silicon Valley or Austin because a new wave of innovation – and $700m worth of investment by the Ford Motor Company, city tax breaks and money from other investors – is helping revive a locale that for so long served as a poster child for the death of the American city...
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Trump Farts on Stage, MAGA Nuts Push Insane Weather Lies & Mr. USA's Products are made in China
- More than 3 million residents of Florida are without power after Hurricane Milton made its way through,
- Trumpers have been blaming the White House for the mess even though two weeks ago 11 House Republicans from Florida voted against keeping the Government and FEMA fully funded,
- Marjorie Taylor Greene is pushing this bonkers idea that Democrats can somehow control the weather to target Republican voting districts,
- a group of funny guys called The Good Liars were in Reading, Pennsylvania where they met a woman who actually believes this,
- we have reached the point of the campaign where Kamala Harris’ emails are making Jimmy feel like he’s going through a break-up,
- Trump is going all-in on these absolutely bogus stories about forced gender-swaps in schools, is letting out gas onstage, spent some time in Detroit badmouthing Detroit, he’s mad at Whoopi Goldberg for using foul language even though he uses profanity all the time,
- Jimmy has a new theory that Trump is King Midas and he thinks everything he touches will turn into gold,
- Mr. Made in the USA is out there promising tariffs on China even though many of the items he is hawking are made there, and there is a new non-official Trump product called Trumpy Trout.
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Some Supporters At Detroit MAGA Rally Were Frauds: Report | HuffPost Latest News
At the event, headlined by vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, more than a dozen attendees could be seen wearing the T-shirts. Some of them were stationed in a featured spot behind Vance as he spoke. However, six fessed up that while they did support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, they were not actually autoworkers, The Detroit News reported...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Trump Claims Harris Used AI For Rally Crowd. Footage Shows a Big Audience. - The New York Times
Three reporters from The New York Times who attended the Michigan rally confirmed that the crowd numbered in the thousands, contrary to Mr. Trump's assertion that "there was nobody there." …
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