Lawsuit could revoke measures to create equity in recreational pot market
Detroit’s recreational marijuana ordinance was shaped to carve out ownership in the pot market for Black and Brown residents but a new lawsuit could unravel that effort.
One Detroit – Michigan’s Automotive Future, Michigan Water Affordability, Sustainable Sushi
Conversations about the future of work and making Michigan more competitive will be front and center at this year’s Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference.
Neighborhood groups can soon apply for vacant land improvement funds
Detroit’s Neighborhood Beautification Program will offer grants for clean-up activities, community gardens and public space improvements. Applications will open this summer.
Detroiters say housing, public transit options in short supply at first BridgeDetroit town hall
BridgeDetroit and Detroit is Different held the first of eight community town halls to gather input from residents about the issues they face in northwest Detroit. The information will be used to shape reporting.
American Black Journal – Mental Health Awareness Month, COVID in Michigan
Stephen Henderson talks with Eric Doeh, President & CEO of Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), about the pandemic’s impact on mental health, the stigma of mental illness in the African American community.
Asphalt plant still can’t be built in Detroit because of pollution worries
Grandmont-Rosedale residents came together to oppose an asphalt plant in their residential community – again.
Detroit cops to deploy more cameras to ID vehicles
The technology will enable crime center analysts to search by geographic area and by the make, model and body style of vehicles as well as the presence of racks or bumper stickers and vehicle history.
One Detroit – Ukraine Benefit Concert, Bassist Marion Hayden, AAPI Story Series, TeMaTe Dance Performance
One Detroit Arts & Culture Producer Sarah Smith caught up with Kovalev and Russian American vocalist and University of Michigan music student Sasha Gusikhin to hear how the $17,000 raised from the benefit concert helped Ukrainians here in Michigan and abroad.
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Poet Natasha T. Miller on navigating grief with art
Performance poet, author and Detroit native Natasha T. Miller discusses the ways we manage grief, loss and what she has learned navigating these emotions in her own life, through poetry.
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How media frames war, and how social media coverage of war changes us
Washington Post photojournalist Salwan Georges joins the program to discuss what it’s like to capture images of people in Ukraine. Then, professor Jen Schradie talks about how social media coverage of war changes how we consider war, and react to it.
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Rep. Elissa Slotkin discusses midterms, Ukraine, abortion; Washington Post journalist on Elon Musk’s Twitter bid
Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin joins the program to discuss a wide variety of issues as we head into the midterms. Then, technology writer Will Oremus talks about what it means if Elon Musk buys Twitter and what Twitter even is anyway.
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