How ‘The Dean’ used Twitter to become the moral conscience of the Democratic Party. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress, ever, will be laid...
This Flint startup has upcycled 16,000 water bottles into glasses
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- Detour Contributor
- 11 December
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...
By Detour Neighborhood Ambassador Frank Nemecek Warrendale is a familiar name to most folks in the Detroit. The neighborhood shows up in the news...
Detroit’s infamous foreclosure auction looks different this year
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- Detour Contributor
- 28 September
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...
Why researchers are poring over thousands of Metro Detroit food tweets
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 13 September
Let’s say you fire off a tweet about the bomb grilled cheese you just made. Maybe, you wonder into the Twitterverse where you should go...
Why the University of Michigan is eyeing a bigger slice of Detroit
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 11 September
When we first learned about the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center, not gonna lie, we pictured some impressive, gleaming hall of urban research. In reality,...
Detroit testing free Lyfts from bus stops to make late night commutes easier
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 7 September
Just before 1 a.m. the other night, I perused the schedule for the “new” #8 Warren Ave. bus line in Detroit (previously the #14 Crosstown)....
We’ve seen plenty of home tours in Detroit -- it’s a great way to peek inside stately historic neighborhoods like Boston Edison. But the Weird...
OPINION: Detroit isn’t a tale of two cities. There’s something worse going on.
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- Detour Contributor
- 26 July
During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away....
It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead of winter when most people...
It's definitely not as simple as counting the mile roads. ...
Here’s why Detroit needs to get serious about supporting entrepreneurs of color
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 21 June
It's no secret that white, male-owned businesses generally make the most money. But the level of disparity for entrepreneurs in Detroit is staggering. ...
Why keeping Detroit's middle-class residents in the city is key to building a better city....
Motor Signal jolts the typical literary reading out of its conventional form. ...
The system is rife with rule breaking, but has been punishingly harsh for low-income Detroiters ...
Come hang out with Detour Detroit and Outlier Media for a hands-on, group act of accountability journalism. ...
Feed your entrepreneurial spirit at a talk featuring social entrepreneur Lauren Bush Lauren at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. ...
During changing times, how can you become more civically-engaged, offline and IRL?...
Last week, after leaving 36th District Court, the activists were triumphant: real estate magnate Dan Gilbert hadn’t been the one on trial, but it still...
Last month, Sterling Heights erected the “Golden Corridor icon,” a giant circle sculpture on M-59 by Lakeside Mall. With a cost of about about $180,000,...
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