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Duggan: Every single Detroiter should have access to COVID-19 test
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said on Thursday that 43% of residents who were tested for COVID-19 at a city-sponsored site last week have the virus. He described it as a “pretty troubling number.” Duggan said that a state official told him that the statewide percentage is closer to 25%. “It is critical that every single […]
Leaders push for 1st responders’ safety amid COVID-19 crisis
Several Michigan officials are raising concerns about first responders’ safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. State Rep. Mike Mueller (R-Linden) has issued letters to county health departments in his district urging them to update their practices to ensure first responders’ safety when entering a home amid the COVID-19 outbreak. State Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D-Detroit) also has […]
Detroit police chief: Nazis wanted ‘Charlottesville II’ at Detroit LGBTQ Pride
Armed Nazis who crashed Motor City Pride over the weekend hoped to spark a repeat of the violence at the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said at a press conference Monday. Five of the 15 members of the National Socialist Movement were open-carrying, “two with long guns and […]
Will Black men deliver for Biden in Michigan?
Eric Brown is a vote that Joe Biden would want, and perhaps desperately needs, if he is to become the 46th president of the United States. But the 56-year-old Canton resident, an African-American labor relations specialist for an automotive supplier, did not cast a vote for the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee. For […]
Planned tribunal is a throwback to post-1967 Detroit rebellion effort
As Detroit anti-police brutality demonstrations continue, a group of lead protesters plan to hold a public tribunal Saturday. The effort, organizers say, is designed to highlight what they believe have been abuses carried out by city police. Tristan Taylor, Detroit Will Breathe co-founder, told the Advance on Thursday that it will be a forum for […]
Trump EPA chief to Congress: Cut my funding
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants Congress to deeply cut funding for his own agency in the next fiscal year. The Trump administration this month asked Congress to slash the EPA’s annual budget by about $2.4 billion for Fiscal Year 2021— that’s a 26% cut from the […]
Corley gets second chance to clear name after metro Detroit shooting
In Akira Kurosawa’s famous 1950 film Rashomon, a samurai is murdered in the forest. An unsuspecting woodcutter discovers his body — the samurai’s hands frozen mid-air like claws clutching a final moment. What follows is familiar: Witnesses are brought forth. A court case begins. But the people who saw what happened in the forest that […]
At $40M, Michigan’s 2018 Senate race didn’t crack top 10 nationwide
The 2018 battle between U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and Republican businessman John James cost a pretty penny — $40 million to be exact. But the race didn’t even break into the top 10 most expensive races across the country, the nonprofit Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN) reported on Thursday. “Michigan’s U.S. Senate race was […]
DeVos family doles out $11 million in 2018 election
West Michigan’s DeVos family again stands as the state’s most generous clan when it comes to political giving. That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN) that tracks money in politics. The report was based on publicly available filings with the state’s Secretary of State and other […]