Detroit

Should Detroit spend $250 million on bonds to fight blight? The city’s 2013 bankruptcy offers some lessons

Detroit's financial struggles of the recent past are worth looking at as voters decide whether Detroit should issue $250 million…

4 years ago

Michigan’s census response is high, but undercount fears loom

Michigan is tied for the seventh-best self-response rate to the 2020 census, but officials fear some communities will be undercounted.

4 years ago

Proposal N: Your voter guide to the Detroit ballot initiative

Here’s everything you need to know about the $250 million blight bond before voting.

4 years ago

How Detroit’s schools and food banks are keeping the city fed amid the pandemic

This is the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, where the coronavirus pandemic has made hunger more visible. In…

4 years ago

Here are all the ballot drop boxes and satellite voting centers in Detroit

Find out where to return your absentee ballot or vote in-person before Election Day.

4 years ago

Not all residents are upset about Amazon coming to Detroit

The proposed Amazon development on an anchor property at Detroit's northern border has sparked vehement responses from nearby residents.

4 years ago

Zoom Yom Kippur kept the holiday spirit alive for my Detroit congregation

As is traditional for Yom Kippur, on Monday I wore a yarmulke, a tallit and all white. Less traditionally, no…

4 years ago

Detroit election 2020: How Detour will serve our readers

Why should you look to Detour for local election coverage? Simply put: because our number one goal is to provide…

4 years ago

‘We wanted to remain a freak show’: Behind the ambitious Recycle Here redevelopment

These first-time developers have a bold plan for affordable artist housing at Recycle Here! and Lincoln Street Art Park. They…

4 years ago

It took a group of Black farmers to start fixing Detroit’s land ownership problem

The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund is tackling an entrenched problem in urban farming: the disparity in land acquisition between…

4 years ago