Detour Contributor, Author at DETOUR

This Flint startup has upcycled 16,000 water bottles into glasses

By Erin Gold Ali Rose VanOverbeke and Jack Burns, co-founders of Flint eyewear startup Genusee, can measure their progress in plastic. So far, they’ve turned...

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Why isn’t Wayne County doing more to keep speculators from exploiting the tax auction?

Fall is auction season in Detroit, as Wayne County sells off homes that were foreclosed on due to unpaid property taxes. We’re currently in the...

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Rouge Park, Detroit’s biggest urban green, deserves more love

By Detour Neighborhood Ambassador Frank Nemecek Warrendale is a familiar name to most folks in the Detroit. The neighborhood shows up in the news...

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Detroit’s infamous foreclosure auction looks different this year

Every year, counties across Michigan auction off foreclosed properties whose owners have been delinquent on property taxes for three years. While it’s a state-mandated, quiet...

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These doctors-in-training meet their patients under freeway overpasses and on street corners

At first glance, the seven people picking their way through the shadows of a southwest Detroit underpass at the end of March could have been...

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OPINION: Detroit isn’t a tale of two cities. There’s something worse going on.

During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away....

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