Detroit MI

TAYLOR – Protestors outside and inside city hall voiced their opposition to the Police Department cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the May 5 City Council meeting. The protestors voiced specific opposition to Taylor’s 287(g) program, initiated in April 2025, that indicates the Police Department will...

Half a century after opening its doors as Detroit’s first Black-owned full-service optical dispensary, Heritage Optical is still very much a family business - and its founder intends to keep it that way. George P. Barnes Jr. started Heritage Optical in 1975 with a name chosen deliberately. Not Barnes...

The historic Ford Building at 615 Griswold Street in the heart of downtown Detroit was left struggling after Covid. The virus resulted in an extremely low occupancy rate -- currently 14 percent. Now, Crain's Detroit Business reports that the building, once the tallest tower in Detroit, is going up for...

University of Detroit Mercy College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dean Jocelyn Boryczka discusses the huge changes coming to Michigan no matter what happens in November. She also looks ahead to the key issues in the 2026 midterms as a whole.

Detroit has a way of turning dinner into a small competitive sport, and I mean that with affection. Some tables here are not just booked, they are pursued. You refresh, you coordinate, you send hopeful texts, and when a reservation finally appears, it feels less like planning dinner and more like winning a polite little lottery. The good news is that the fuss usually...

More than 5,400 sidewalks across Detroit will be repaired under an $8 million agreement approved by the City Council. The contract with Detroit-based Giorgi Concrete LLC and Major Contracting Group will largely address the backlog of more than 6,300 sidewalks identified for repair as of Jan. 1, 2026. The remaining sites in the backlog will be covered with $1.5 million left over from...

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – “He had the bag and poured out all the leaves,” said Tracy Anderson as she showed us her Ring doorbell video. The video shows a contractor making a mess of her lawn. “I thought he was joking and he wasn’t he came back...

FOX 2 - The City of Dearborn Heights is cracking down on reckless driving - and a new video shared on social media couldn't make it more clear. In the video, Mayor Mo Baydoun and a police sergeant tell a resident that due to his son's reckless driving which was caught on camera, the vehicle is going to be impounded.

Michigan humane has a new event on the way this weekend, and it could end with you bringing home a furry friend. Tailgate: Run, Walk, Adopt will bring animal lovers together at Roosevelt Park in Corktown. The event will run from 7:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9th.

The writer is a Los Angeles-based freelancer and former Detroit News business reporter. This column first appeared in his blog, Starkman Approved. Veteran journalist Michael Schroeder, who worked at The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and The Detroit News, was killed Sunday in a car accident in Florida. He was 72, and in my experience, he was one of the most decent people in...