This week in The Notebook: The city deploys new missing person alerts, a historic designation boundary for SW Detroit and crumbling bridges.
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Complaint targets Detroit City Council member’s mailer
A June newsletter sent to District 2 residents included a campaign solicitation from Police Commissioner Linda Bernard.
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Who’s funding the mayoral race? Not Detroiters.
Detroit’s nine mayoral candidates have raised $3 million combined. The vast majority of that sum (72%) has come from people who don’t claim Detroit addresses.
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Can residential neighborhoods be spared commercial truck traffic?
Council hears proposal on limiting truck traffic in residential neighborhoods, and also weighs higher fines for curfew violations
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State hands detention center back to Detroit
The detention center’s shoddy conditions and unlawful practices had gotten DPD in hot water with the feds, leading to a state takeover
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Licensing will be easier for Detroit businesses under new rules
New rules approved by City Council are designed to ease bureaucratic burdens and show that Detroit is “open for business.”
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Are Detroit police assisting ICE enforcement? Council questions DPD.
The Detroit City Council — and residents — had questions for Detroit police about the department’s role in a recent ICE raid
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Failing air conditioners, extreme heat have City Council concerned
As a summer heat wave hit Detroit, City Council members got hot about air conditioning problems in apartment buildings across the city.
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Transit center security raises questions
The City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee is scheduling a discussion next Monday on new security measures that have made some riders unwelcome in Detroit’s two transit centers.
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How should Detroit protect immigrants?
Malachi Barrett has the city council recap: An activist-led declaration opposing Trump immigration policies, fireworks curfew, landlord compliance incentives and more.