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Strategic Staffing Solutions To Support Detroit Police Mounted Unit For Three More Years

Tuesday, Detroit Police Chief James E. Craig announced the sponsorship of the Detroit Police Department’s Mounted Unit by Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3). The company has made a three-year commitment through the Detroit Public Safety Foundation to help support the department’s Mounted Unit. S3’s support includes funding for the cost of veterinary bills, horseshoeing, hay, wood shavings, grooming, feeding, cleaning, repairs, and replacement of equipment. The funding will also provide for the...

VIDEO: Special Olympian From Plymouth Deadlifts A Whopping 660 Pounds

Wow. Just wow. Here’s a video of Special Olympics Michigan athlete James Ellison doing a 660 pound dead lift. According to Special Olympics Michigan, that’s an unofficial World Record for a Special Olympics competition. The unofficial World Record was set June 3, 2016 at the Special Olympics Michigan State Summer Games in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. “I said, ‘I don’t know if I can get this,'” Ellison told the Central Michigan Life student paper. “But then something just clicked. I was like, ‘Y...

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It's Vernors 150th Anniversary Week And This Is What's Up

If Detroit food and drink had gods and goddesses like the ancient Greeks, Vernors – depicted by the iconic gnome – would be one of the top deities. This week is the 150th anniversary of the bubbly concoction, first created in 1866. And it’s as good of an excuse as any to party! Thanks to the Detroit Historical Society, the Vernor’s Ginger Ale Collectors Club, and others – here’s a guide to what’s up this week around town. Oh, and don’t forget to look for buildings lit up in the signature gre...

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The Detroit Wall: A Tale of How Federal Policy Helped Divide A City

Starting at the northern boundary of Antwerp Park on Pembroke Avenue is a 6-foot high wall, known by many names. The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, Detroit’s Wailing Wall, The Birwood Wall, or the Wyoming Wall. The wall extends about half a mile north and stops just south of 8 Mile Road. The wall served one purpose: To separate an already existent black neighborhood from a new all-white neighborhood. But why? Money. And racially-charged federal housing policies. You see, in the 1930s, that area...

Metro Detroit Ranks As 12th Best Place To Find A Job In Nation, Says Glassdoor

Good news for metro Detroit, as the region came in listed as a top 25 city to find a job. We scored well on life/work balance, and a median salary of $61,500 which isn’t too shabby at all. There also are more than 59,000 job openings in our area. Top jobs in demand based on job postings included registered nurses, bank tellers, and financial advisors. We like to include the methodology when we share these things, so here it is below: Glassdoor’s Best Cities for Jobs report identifies U.S...

Tony Awards Honor Detroit Teacher With Theatre Education Award

Detroit’s got talent. And that talent is nurtured by teachers – teachers like Marilyn McCormick, drama teacher at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan. This week, The Tony Awards has announced that McCormick is the winner of the second Excellence in Theatre Education Award, presented by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). McCormick’s students, present and past, along with colleagues at Cass Technical High School submitted letters, tributes and videos through the application proces...

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PICS: Up Close With The Original 1984 Ghostbusters Movie Car, ECTO-1

ECTO-1. One of the most recognizable vanity license plates in cinema. And it’s over at the Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle this weekend. One of those will make any movie buff happy – they’ve rolled out from California the original Ghostbusters car from 1984. The base of the vehicle is a 1959 Cadillac GM professional chassis – made for hearses and ambulances. It’s owned by Sony Pictures and normally lives in Culver City, CA. Locally there was the Great Lakes Ghostbuster Coalition repp...

Great Lakes Coffee Eyes Vacant Detroit Firehouse For Tasting Room, Mixed Use Development

Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co. is talking with city officials about purchasing and redeveloping a vacant, historic firehouse in southwest Detroit for its third location in the city, Daily Detroit has learned. The firehouse, at 3396 Vinewood St., is located just off Michigan Avenue in the Core City neighborhood, nearly a mile west of the rapidly revitalizing commercial district in Corktown. The project is at the center of the city’s effort to rezone 39 lots as mixed use in an effort to draw mo...

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Detroit Creative Corridor Center Launches Detroit City of Design Initiative

Detroit has a long and prestigious history of being in the forefront of design and the creative sector. Now, that heritage is being recognized and enhanced. The Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3) has announced the launch of the 10-year Detroit City of Design initiative. The announcement follows Detroit’s designation as the first and only recognized UNESCO City of Design in the U.S. Detroit is one of only 22 cities worldwide to be chosen as Cities of Design in the UNESCO Creative Cities Net...

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Detroit to Receive Additional $88.2 Million in Blight Elimination Funding

Detroit’s urban landscape will continue changing in the next few years, in part thanks to an additional $88.2 million dollars in blight removal funding. The money comes from the $188.1 million dollars the U.S. Department of Treasury awarded to the Michigan State Housing Development Authority in April. “The strategic use of these dollars will greatly benefit Michigan homeowners and strengthen communities, resulting in positive progress for people across the state,” Gov. Rick Snyder said. Detr...

Q&A: Why Is The Detroit Education Commission So Important?

We’re up at the Mackinac Policy Conference this week talking to leaders, influencers, and newsmakers about what’s happening in Detroit. The annual conference is a who’s who of Detroit and statewide decision makers, so if you want to get a lot of questions asked and answered in a short time, this is where to go. We sat down with Armen Hratchian, Vice President of Excellent Schools Detroit for a few questions. For background, he’s very much for the Detroit Education Commission plan. The plan w...

Mayor Mike Duggan Preaches About Detroit At Mackinac, Shares His Vision For Future

Mayor Mike Duggan was fired up during his keynote address at the Mackinac Policy Conference. He’s not be a man of the cloth, but he brought the house down by sharing his vision of the City of Detroit, ending with a standing ovation. His main concern was for the rebirth of Detroit and to make sure that the recovery provides opportunity to everyone. Duggan broke down his vision into seven categories. They are removing blight, recognizing Detroit’s uniqueness and finding it’s advantages, attrac...

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Cinetopia International Film Festival Starts Friday With A Film On The Lawn Of The DIA

Looking for a great lineup of notable new features, short films, and documentaries? Check out the Cinetopia International Film Festival, from June 3-12. The event, created for the people of Southeast Michigan, brings together the best screenings that film festivals have to offer. The festival starts on Friday, June 3. Screenings will take place at venues in multiple locations, including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Bloomfield, and Dearborn. Cinetopia features screenings of many films from renowned inte...

VIDEO: A Young J.P. McCarthy, Ernie Harwell and Others Pitch WJR in 1966, a Half Century Ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkt11XGlhU8 The promo film above by Jam Handy productions in 1966 is a window into 1960s Detroit. Whether it’s the style of dress, the idea that a major radio station had a “fine arts director,” or the sheer campiness of some of the conversation, this video is a neat mid-century modern step back in time. It’s a pitch film for advertisers for WJR radio in the Fisher Building, “One Of A Kind.” Radio legends J.P. McCarthy and Ernie Harwell are in their young...

New Campaign Hopes To Position Michigan As Global Leader In Autonomous Vehicles and Transportation

In order for Detroit to hold on to the title of the “Motor City,” the region and state will have to adapt to advances in technology. With that in mind, Gov. Rick Snyder today announced a new campaign – Planet M – created with the goal of elevating Michigan as the hub of mobility innovations, leading to more business investment and jobs in the state. The campaign’s tagline is “Michigan. Where big ideas in mobility are born.” “Planet M represents Michigan’s future as a leader in mobility and t...

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Roads and Infrastructure Cited as Top Challenges to Entrepreneurial Success in Wayne County

In the age of the startup, it seems like everyone and their moms are starting businesses. While most entrepreneurs face similar business problems like securing funding, those in Wayne County face slightly different issues. MIMayors, an initiative of Westland Mayor William R. Wild, commissioned Ed Sarpolus and his research firm Insyght Institute to conduct a survey of 1,000 entrepreneurs. The aim of the survey was to address business growth issues facing the City of Westland and the surrounding...

Talking Transit with Matt Cullen, CEO of Rock Ventures

Mass transit is going to be one of the hottest topics in Metro Detroit up until a millage vote in November. The push has started in earnest for a millage to support $4.6 billion in transit improvements across the Detroit region. At the Mackinac Policy Conference, we caught up with Matt Cullen, President & CEO of Rock Ventures, to talk about the transit situation in metro Detroit. Daily Detroit: You, and others, talked a lot about the fact Detroit needs to have better mass transit to be compe...

Hello From The 2016 Mackinac Policy Conference: Education, Entrepreneurship And Transit, Oh My!

We’re back for another year at the 2016 Mackinac Policy Conference – and some topics change, and some stay the same. Education funding and possible reform is front and center again. Funding and support for the continuation of Detroit Public Schools are hung up on the idea of a Detroit Education Commission; that there would be a central body that would help regulate where schools go within the city and make sure that lower-performing operators aren’t able to clone their models. However, Republi...

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