Here’s a map of more than 550 businesses that take part in the City of Detroit’s Project Green Light program. Under Project Green Light, launched in 2016,...
I’ll come clean: Despite the warnings, the last few days I’ve been jaywalking all over town, walking in the street and crossing between intersections and...
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. ...
At first glance, the Pay as You Stay program — which would dramatically cut down on back taxes for low-income homeowners in Detroit and attempt...
Dexter Grinds owner Pastor Clete Bontrager wants the coffee house to be a community hub -- and a catalyst to revitalize the formerly bustling Dexter...
One in four Detroit households don't have any internet access. In just five years, the city’s new digital inclusion director wants to flip that.
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From spooky science to autumnal craft fairs and beer fests, here are all the Detroit events you shouldn't miss this October....
Kerry Ann Rockquemore started the Self Care Project to give out $500 each to 50 “activists, organizers and change makers” who live in Detroit, Hamtramck...
By Jess Jackson, Detour Emerging Voices Fellow As Michigan prepares for the emerging recreational cannabis industry and attempts to level the field for minority business...
A group of Detroiters is calling for the city to temporarily ban more commercial surface parking lots downtown, arguing that lots have spread through the...
To neighbors and Detroiters in the know, RollerCade isn’t just a great place to skate. It’s a legendary community hub. ...
The E. Warren Tool Library opened on Detroit's east side in July 2019, letting residents borrow tools and supplies to repair their homes and beautify...
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