September 27, 2015 | Detroit Free Press
It’s hard to understand the resounding yawn that seems to have emanated from the governor’s office, following news that an increasing percentage of Flint kids have been lead poisoned after a switch in the city’s water supply.
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services sent a Free Press data analyst a chart she claimed would refute a report issued by a Hurley Medical Center researcher, […]
September 24, 2015 | MLive
FLINT, MI — The city of Flint is expected to advise its water customers on ways to minimize exposure to lead in its tap water — particularly for children — after a group that includes doctors and health officials strongly suggested the step.
Flint Mayor Dayne Walling confirmed the move on Wednesday, Sept. 23, after The Flint Journal-MLive learned the Greater Flint Health Coalition approved a resolution two days prior urgently […]
August 26, 2015 | MLive
DETROIT – Sell two homes a week in any of four Detroit neighborhoods until a $5 million grant from businessman Dan Gilbert runs out.
That’s the plan for the newly announced Rehabbed and Ready program, a multi-faceted project between Detroit Land Bank Authority, Quicken Loans and The Home Depot.
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August 26, 2015 | MLive
DETROIT – The four neighborhoods targeted in the newly announced Rehabbed and Ready program were carefully picked, according to Quicken Loans Founder Dan Gilbert.
The Detroit real estate mogul who’s spent much of the last few years investing in over 75 properties in downtown Detroit recently provided the new program (through Quicken Loans) with a $5 million donation.
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August 26, 2015 | Detroit Free Press
Quicken Loans chief Dan Gilbert and Mayor Mike Duggan said today that a program to renovate as many as 65 abandoned but salvageable homes in four Detroit neighborhoods will boost home prices across the city.
Quicken partnered with the home improvement store Home Depot and the Detroit Land Bank Authority on the program, with Quicken donating $5 million to the effort targeting homes in the Bagley, Crary-St. Mary’s, College […]
May 16, 2014 | MyFoxDetroit
The Director of Environmental Quality visited several of the worst illegal dumping sites in the city Friday.
One of the sites included a cluster of homes that were filled from top to bottom with tires.
May 6, 2014 | MLive
The term ‘environmental justice’ is not heard often, especially in reference to Detroit, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, says Guy Williams, Michigan resident and CEO of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, who has spent the last two decades taking action to change that.
On Greening of the Great Lakes, Williams tells host Kirk Heinze about the double-edged impact of being a historically industrial city and about his vision for Detroit as a global model […]
May 2014 | Hour Detroit
In a neighborhood near Henry Ford Hospital called Northwest Goldberg, a boarded-up home at the corner of the block is surrounded by overgrown trees and broken glass. It’s a common example of “ruin porn” overplayed by the media.
Eliminating decay in Detroit is a monstrous undertaking, but if Reclaim Detroit and the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force do what they intend to do, things are about to change — for the […]
April 20, 2014 | BBC News
Many Western nations have experienced significant declines in crime in recent decades, but could the removal of lead from petrol explain that? Working away in his laboratory in 1921, Thomas Midgley wanted to fuel a brighter tomorrow. He created tetraethyl lead – a compound that would make car engines more efficient than ever. But did the lead that we added to our petrol do something so much […]