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The Detroit City Council has reversed course and agreed to hike the city’s water and sewerage rates.The Council voted 5-4 to approve a 7.5% increase…

An autobiographical exploration of fatherhood and faith, Jeffrey Brown's A Matter of Life is his most personal work to date — which says a lot, given the confessional cartoonist's revealing past works. Reviewer Jody Arlington finds this new book both wise and hilarious.

Detroit Democrats propose auto insurance reformDemocratic state lawmakers from Detroit are proposing their own strategy to overhaul auto insurance in…

The city of Flint has scored a partial victory in its efforts to get its city budget deficit under control. But there is still more work to do. The city…

Nov. 15, 2007Bill Schmidt is well known in education circles for his research into the academic content in K-12 schools, testing, and the effects of…

When you hear the term "midlife crisis" most people imagine a fifty-something guy driving off in a new sports car, but it turns out women are casting…

Metro Detroit once had a high-tech water warning system designed to detect chemical spills in real time. Now, it sits unused.Built in 2006, the system was…

Flint residents thinking they need a "whole house filter" to clean their water are mistaken, say experts involved in the city's crisis. Marc Edwards,…

Mining once boomed in Mongolia but as commodity prices fell, the economy tanked and companies went bankrupt. Unemployed men are taking over abandoned coal mines to extract what's left. Some have died.

The keepers of this memorial say "it's nothing pretty, but it's a whole lot of love."Dominic Adams writes about the Sept. 11th Memorial Corner in Flint,…