Politics

People are calling this obscure change to Detroit’s water bills the ‘rain tax’

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6 years ago

Should the Detroit auto show park on Belle Isle?

It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead…

6 years ago

Want Medicaid in Michigan? Get a job.

By most accounts, the Healthy Michigan program, which gives 670,000 low-income Michiganders access to health care, has been a resounding…

6 years ago

Do we want to be the Motor City, or the Mobility City?

Can Detroit become a mobility city without some sort of regional transit agency to guide it?

7 years ago

What the Bus?!

Last edition, Detour dove into the details of the proposed Detroit regional transit plan and the Regional Transit Authority’s urgent maneuvering to…

7 years ago