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Kindergartners at Thirkell Elementary School. The Detroit Public Schools has given management to a new body controlled by the governor called the Educational Achievement Authority.

May 14, 2013

State Robbing Detroit Schools of Money & Curriculum?

The Educational Achievement Authority, the kids and the critics

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April 11, 2013

Catchy Transit Tune: Listen and Sing Along

Mundane issue sparks creativity in local advocate

Van McCarty, 24, of Troy and Jordan Mulka, 22, of Dearborn in the lobby of SEMCOG. It's on the 14th floor of 1001 Woodward that was bought recently by Dan Gilbert. Elevator interiors are covered by plywood as furniture is taken up into offices. Paint is wet and carpets are clean. Investment is increasing density and walkability. But none of this will ever rival major downtowns without mass transit.

Loving Detroit But Leaving It If No Transit Built

Activists speak at First RTA board meeting

This satellite image shows blue-green algae on Lake Erie in 2011, the worst year for algal blooms on record. (Courtesy Essex Region Conservation Authority)

March 27, 2013

Maddening Algae on Lake Erie

International Joint Commission puts 50 scientists together in Windsor

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Zebra mussels on barrel that was pulled from the Saginaw River in November 2011. The dock is in Essexville.

Lakes Changing Too Fast To Predict

March 19, 2013

Zebra mussels challenging African-American Detroit woman scientist who’s developing new tools to understand them

Linda Quist, Denise Evans and Peggy Vander Meulen work together every day on health care and racism in Grand Rapids. But they still learn new aspects of these subjects from one another. This photo was taken at the first annual Equity Network Conference at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing March 14-16, 2013.

Guilt Over White Privilege?

March 18, 2013

Wisdom from women in the trenches

The BBC did a documentary on Detroit's woes in 2009 and spoke to Sandra Hines. She can carry a conversation across the spectrum of injustice from police brutality to emergency managers to housing discrimination.

You Wrecked My House

February 21, 2013

TRC PART 5–Explanations of how the ‘other’ destroyed your community.

Photo by Susan Frikken, September 15, 2012 on Belle Isle during the Tour de Troit bicycling event. Young whites are more and more visible in greater downtown Detroit, often on bikes. The expression of triumph for some comes from the need to prove to other whites 'look. I can go wherever I want and not get mugged.'

Unease With White Return To Detroit

February 19, 2013

TRC PART 4–Listen to woman’s description of young whites appearing on bikes, scooters and rollerblades

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58 lb. Muskellunge Caught from Torch Lake

Breaks state record

(Demolition of Hudson's at 5:47 pm, October 24, 1998. . Photo courtesy of Lowell Boilleau/ DetroitYes.com) Dennis Archer pressed the button that pushed the plunger detonating 2,700 lbs. of explosives. The land has been vacant ever since. Archer has "no regrets." This reporter was in New York that day as well as September 11, 2001. The World Trade Center was destroyed by enemies. We destroyed Hudson's by ourselves.

Archer & Schostak on Hudson’s

February 13, 2013

TRC PART 3–Women at Truth & Reconciliation Commission wanted answers from powerful men

Events

58 lb. Muskellunge Caught from Torch Lake

Breaks state record

Record Black Buffalo Fish Caught

Pulled from Kalamazoo River

DNR continues tradition of women's archery

1937 photo courtesy of MSU archives

Turtle City Biologists

Plan to release oil-contaminated turtles

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'Rough Road Ahead', produced by Michigan Now's Rob South for The Center For Michigan.

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