When Alashna Moore took her 4-year-old son Aishani to sign up for preschool at United Children and Family Head Start on Harper in early August, she took advantage of an unexpected opportunity to test him for lead poisoning. A mobile health unit stationed in the parking lot behind the school building was staffed with health […]
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PARKS REPORT: Clark Park
View on Instagram >>> Find your way to this park Clark Park Clark Park, located at 1130 Clark Ave in southwest Detroit, sits next to Western International High School and Maybury Elementary. The park is a sprawling landscape featuring a canopy of trees to shade park visitors. The park includes multiple picnic pavilions, 2 playground […]
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Metroparks, SMART to offer rides to Lake St. Clair Metropark
The Huron-Clinton Metroparks and SMART will launch a year-long collaborative experiment to offer transit to Lake St. Clair Metropark next month. The Metropark Express program will leverage the transit agency’s SMART Flex program to give riders on-demand service between a bus stop at 15 Mile and Gratiot and several locations within the Metropark. SMART Flex […]
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From the Headlines – August 16-20, 2021
Power failure: At the beginning of the week, 20,000 DTE Energy customers were still without power, following the storms that had knocked out service to around 800,000 homes on the previous Thursday. This latest round of outages has drawn attention to the utility’s track record of long and frequent outages even as it enjoys high-profit margins and […]
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OPINION: Why ‘Goldilocks’ tailpipe emission standards are not enough
Responding to President Biden’s announcement earlier this month of new tailpipe emissions standards, Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee offered a strange kind of praise: “This is sort of a Goldilocks goal… Not too much, not too little. It’s just right.” But Biden and Kildee are both living in a fairytale if they think these milquetoast standards […]
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Meet the students learning about air quality in Dearborn
Melvindale high school student Samantha Tapia-Muñoz was shocked to learn how much air pollution she was breathing every day. “I was walking around my house in Melvindale, and the air pollution was at 66 AQI,” said Tapia-Muñoz, referring to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index. A measurement of 66 means “moderate” — with […]
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Can new Detroit flooding lawsuits succeed where past litigation failed?
In 1998, Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park residents hailed a class action lawsuit settlement that in part required the city to separate sewage and stormwater lines, a move that area leaders promised would end the flooding and backups that filled basements and property with sewage. Among those who cheered was Detroiter Cindy Wile, who after […]
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PARKS REPORT: Dueweke Park
View on Instagram >>> Find your way to this park: Dueweke Park Dueweke Park located at 4975 Sheridan Street features a large basket court, picnic area, playground, and walking course. The park is named in honor of Sylvester L. Dueweke, a local man who fought and died in World War II earning a Purple Heart […]
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From the Headlines – August 9-13, 2021
Sound the alarm: Monday’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)–often referred to as the gold standard of climate assessments–shows that emissions produced by burning fossil fuels have locked in global heating for at least the next 30 years, leading UN Secretary-General António Guterres to call the report “a code red for humanity.” Here are some […]