Early ideas for the island included a city garbage dump with a promise of the operations being “smokeless and odorless,” or improving the land into a “healthful resort similar in attractiveness to Belle Isle.”
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Barack Obama Leadership Academy faces threat of closure
The Detroit school board signaled it will not authorize another school year for the academy. The charter may find a new authorizer or close.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture Canvas
Detroit artist’s health scare inspires therapeutic coloring book
The 40-page coloring book “It’s Okay” by Jonathan Harris follows two Black adults from birth to old age and the various decisions they make throughout their lives.
Posted inDetroit City Notebook, Housing
Detroit senior apartment tenants plead for support
River Pointe Tower Tenants Union members say they are frustrated over housing conditions and are urging Detroit City Council members to intervene.
Posted inEducation
Detroit school district may allow independent parent organizations after conflict involving PTAs
Detroit school board members are frustrated with complaints over dysfunction at some PTAs last year. Now, they are considering changing how the organizations can be run.
Posted inArts & Culture, Michigan Government
Michigan prison art program helps inmates find voice — and hope
The 30th annual exhibit — the largest and longest-running art show of its kind in the country — is ‘a testament to the resilience of artists inside prison who continue to create and find new ways to express themselves,’ said an organizer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture Canvas
Detroit 5th grader uplifts Black culture one viral video at a time
Rosie told BridgeDetroit that her first video came to life in preschool when she had a Black History Project on Rosa Parks.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Detroit City Notebook
Detroit’s plan to relight residential blocks, alleyways
The initiative will launch with a series of April community meetings across the city. The installation of at least 3,000 new mid-block street lights across all seven council districts is expected to get underway in the summer.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Housing
‘The model no longer works:’ Crypto landlord’s Detroit enterprise is crumbling
RealT has stopped weekly payouts to investors and owes the city millions of dollars.
Posted inEnvironment
A law meant to clean Michigan’s air now costs the state billions with little oversight
A 1965 law exempts facilities that install air pollution control equipment from property taxes.