A residential-zoned parcel has been leveled and fenced off, violating city ordinance. Residents are worried about more trucking coming to their neighborhood. Southwest Detroit residents convened last week at Donovan’s Pub seeking answers about recent activity at a property belonging to the Moroun-owned real estate company Crown Enterprises at Toledo and 25th Street. “We’re desperate,” […]
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OPINION: The EV transition isn’t just about cars – the broader goal should be access to clean mobility for everyone
Sita M. Syal, University of Michigan The race to decarbonize passenger cars and light-duty trucks in the U.S. is accelerating. Battery electric vehicles accounted for almost 6% of all new vehicle sales in 2022, up from close to 3% in 2021, and demand is outstripping supply, even as manufacturers roll out new models and designs. […]
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In search of greenspace equity: A short history of Detroit’s parks
“It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God’s handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great […]
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OPINION: New report on Detroit and Rouge River’s contaminated sediments urges creative financing, environmental justice
The window for leveraging federal funds to clean up the Detroit River ends in 4-5 years. Advocates call for urgency and new approaches. Contaminated sediments on the U.S. side of the Detroit River and in the lower Rouge River continue to limit the ecological recovery of these ecosystems, including making fish unsafe for human consumption […]
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DTE’s new Time of Day rate will be here in March. Here’s what you need to know.
Starting in March, DTE will implement a new rate structure that charges more for electricity from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays relative to the other 20 hours of the day and all day on weekends.
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OPINION: The origin of the water affordability crisis in Highland Park
Republished with permission from Detroit Urbanism. The City of Highland Park once operated its own independent municipal water supply, from June 1915 through December 2012. Toward the end of that period, while the city was under emergency state financial oversight, inspections had found that the facility had suffered from years of deferred maintenance and was therefore “temporarily” shut […]
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What you need to know this week – 1/27/23
The Gov’s words: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued her State of State address Wednesday, calling to “increase domestic clean energy production, like wind and solar, so we can produce more energy in America instead of overseas,” and adding that “we must pursue climate action while creating jobs, lowering costs, and becoming a hub of clean energy […]
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Study finds racial disparities in distribution of federal funds for water systems
by María Inés Zamudio, Center for Public Integrity January 20, 2023 The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden last November, is pouring billions of dollars into an upgrade of the country’s aging water infrastructure. But a new study has found that white communities have been favored in distribution of the funds, something that’s controlled […]
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Hantz tree farm falls short on solving east side blight
John Hantz acquired cheap swaths of land on the east side with plans for an urban tree farm. Neighbors say the wealthy entrepreneur has fallen short but operates under a special deal not afforded to residents. In the months before Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, John Hantz took control of almost […]
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The Detroit People’s Food Co-op is coming. Here’s what you need to know.
The co-op will occupy the first floor of a 34,000-square-foot newly constructed building at the corner of Woodward and Euclid in the North End neighborhood of Detroit.