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Detroit cracks down on Southwest truck traffic with new restrictions: Activist ‘beyond thrilled’
The truck restrictions could be expanded beyond Southwest Detroit, where “the issue is most severe,” says city’s infrastructure chief.
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House bill would expand FEMA coverage for flooded, moldy Michigan basements: ‘There needs to be some equity’
“It is so bizarre as a member of Congress, finding out that FEMA will come and cover getting a new furnace or water heater, but won’t actually cover the actual mitigation and cleaning up of the sewage and the water in people’s basements,” says U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib.