Looking back on 2025: A year of reckoning for Michigan’s environment
We won’t sugarcoat it. 2025 was tough: for Michigan communities facing down data centers, bursting pipes, drinking water threats, flooding and industrial pollution, and for our small newsroom working to cover it all.
Resilience in the D roundup: Honoring Detroiters
Here’s a look back on four Detroiters who deserve to be honored for their work. Come back in January for the fifth honoree.
Michigan school districts appeal judge’s ruling in dispute over safety, mental health funding
Dozens of Michigan school districts challenged the state budget lawmakers approved in October because of language that puts conditions on school safety and mental health funding.
Chessboxing is a real thing. And a Michigander is the new world champ
Michigan’s James Canty III recently won the super heavyweight chessboxing world championship in Serbia.
City Council Notebook: Detroit’s biggest decisions in 2025
Whether you read one or one hundred of them, thank you for relying on us to keep you informed. I take that responsibility quite seriously.
20 Detroit City Council decisions that defined 2025
The 2025 legislative session featured important decisions touching every corner of life in Detroit.
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