Rebecca Fackler was in pain, not feeling well, and crying out for help from inside Michigan’s only women’s prison, but no one came to help until it was too late, according to a woman incarcerated near her.
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Life is becoming less affordable for Michiganders. And in Lansing, despite the constraints they face, many believe lawmakers are not doing enough to change that for residents.
With state Senator Erika Geiss term limited out of her seat, two Democrats are now vying to improve life for residents in parts of Detroit and Downriver.
Justin Onwenu is running as a Democrat for District 1’s state Senate. He spoke about what he wants to change with The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent.
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Mike Duggan’s independent campaign for governor began as a bold experiment in post-partisan politics and ended Thursday with a thud.
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For weeks, Shaquillia DeShields says she tried to get help for her daughter inside Michigan’s only women’s prison.
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A Northville strip club operator tied to several metro Detroit adult entertainment clubs has been charged with a hate crime after prosecutors said he harassed two men with vulgar remarks about Islam at Somerset Mall and threatened them with violence.
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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has won the endorsement of the Original Eastside Slate, an influential Detroit political organization with a strong record of backing winning candidates, giving her campaign a boost in the battle for Black voters.
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Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit has renamed its June 13 animal and music festival after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Coachella’s lawyers, but the legal threat has prompted a wave of support for the Dearborn shelter.
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Detroit police have failed to follow through on a promise to investigate a retired homicide detective accused of misconduct that led to false confessions and wrongful convictions, the latest frustration for exonerated men demanding accountability.
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A Dearborn animal shelter raising money for homeless dogs and cats has been forced to rename its upcoming “Pawchella” fundraiser after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the company behind Coachella, one of the world’s most famous music festivals.
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A local resident who demanded answers about the city of Taylor's agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was grabbed by three police officers and arrested Tuesday night after she pressed Mayor Tim Woolley on whether the partnership is putting immigrants and people of color in danger.
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Two metro Detroit families have filed federal lawsuits accusing cops in Detroit and Warren of storming into their homes without warrants, beating or assaulting residents who had not committed crimes, and then pursuing criminal charges that were later dismissed.
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At least eight prisoners have been freed because of Simon’s misconduct, and her actions have cost taxpayers more than $25 million in lawsuit settlements so far, with more pending.
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CNN has picked up Metro Times’s reporting on retired Detroit homicide Detective Barbara Simon, bringing national attention to a scandal that has led to multiple exonerations, millions of dollars in settlements, and mounting calls for a full review of the cases she handled.
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A senior Detroit Department of Transportation official received a significant raise after the city’s watchdog recommended discipline, while the agency’s former chief safety officer was suspended twice and fired after cooperating with the same investigation.
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Four years in, the war in Sudan has produced the largest displacement crisis in the world. Nearly 14 million people have been forced from their homes. Both the United States government and a United Nations fact-finding mission have called the violence a genocide, citing a coordinated campaign by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces against the Zaghawa and Fur communities of Darfur.
In the United States, the response has been quiet.
Khadega Mohammed has spent much of her life trying to say something about that silence — through poetry, community organizing, and her work at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, where she is the only Sudanese person and the only Black person on staff.
Born in Sudan, raised in Saudi Arabia, and resettled in the United States with her family in 2007, Mohammed is a spoken word artist whose signature poem, “Between,” opens the PBS AfroPoP documentary “Revolution from Afar.”
She joined Robyn Vincent on The Metro to talk about the Sudan she remembers, the America she lives in, and the in-between where her poetry was born.
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The fallout from Detroit’s toxic demolition dirt scandal continues to grow months after former Mayor Mike Duggan left office, with the city now testing more than 650 sites and spending millions more to measure the scope of a crisis that was announced during the final days of his administration.
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Metro Detroit’s infrastructure is old. Many of the homes people live in, the streets they drive on, and the drainage systems they use were constructed many decades ago. And most of that infrastructure is considered gray — it’s made of concrete, steel, and asphalt.
That material is sturdy. But it’s less helpful for navigating extreme weather, especially flooding. The good news is that across metro Detroit, green infrastructure projects are cropping up.
What do those look like? Why do they matter? And, how can more residents create green infrastructure projects to prevent flooding, and beautify their communities?
Jim Nash is the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner. He spoke with host Robyn Vincent.
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In 2019, Michigan’s largest utility ended what’s called net metering. That meant if you had solar panels, you no longer got full credit for the extra energy you sent back to the grid. So, instead of getting a dollar’s worth of credit, you might get 30 cents.
But in Ann Arbor, this didn’t slow down rooftop solar, or make it less attractive financially. Solar installations exploded there —from 17 per year before 2019 to 180 per year since 2020.
This is partly because of a program called Solarize — neighbors banding together to get group discounts on solar installations. Now it has spread across metro Detroit.
Julie Roth launched Solarize. Today, she’s the energy manager at the city of Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations. She spoke with The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent.
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Detroit officials celebrated the reopening of AB Ford Park last fall as a major step forward for the waterfront site.
But months later, residents who live next to the waterfront park say it’s plagued by flooding, dead trees, leftover construction debris, a crumbling parking lot, and missing amenities that were promised to the community.
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