Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
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Over 2.5 million Michigan voters participated in Tuesday's election, a record turnout for an August primary. About two-thirds of voters used an absentee ballot, another record. Tuesday's vote total was 2,515,882. That's 13% higher than the previous record of 2,2 million set in the 2018 August primary -- and 79% higher than the 1.4 million ballots cast in August 2016. This week's number also exceeded the 2.3 million ballots cast in the March presidential primary. The large numbers of voters...
U.S. Census Bureau worker Jennifer Pope wears a face covering at a walk-up counting site in Greenville, Texas, on July 31. The bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month sooner than previously announced, the bureau's director confirmed Monday. The U.S. Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month sooner than previously announced, the bureau's director confirmed Monday in a statement. That includes critical...
The United Way of Southeast Michigan has introduced a tool for families called Connect 4 Care to help them find free and low-cost childcare programs they may be eligible for in Detroit. Jeff Miles, Senior Director of the Center for Early Childhood Excellence at the United Way, says the program builds on data obtained by the city of Detroit when it began asking families about their experiences with trying to find childcare nearly three years ago. The city's data found that families wanted to...
Small towns have their reputations. Some good, some bad, some false, some true. A small town's biggest fable is that it breeds once in a lifetime talents. Some individuals are destined to outgrow the boundaries of their one horse town. They inspire to move outside their city's small boundaries, and change whatever new world awaits them. Malik Boynton is one of those small town legends. An original product of River Rouge, Boynton has always had a natural talent in athleticism. He participated on...
This week's Senior Star is Mr. Wardell Montgomery, Jr. The Detroit resident was born in 1940 to Rose and Wardell Montgomery, Sr. Throughout his life he has made his home in Los Angeles, New York City, and Denver, returning home to Michigan in 1995. Montgomery is retired from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he worked in customer service. Montgomery grew up on Milwaukee Street near Russell and was the oldest of three boys. He recalls the neighborhood was integrated and...
The coronavirus pandemic has focused the nation's attention on the essential role public schools play in families and communities' lives. The NAACP said it's also exposed severe racial inequalities that continue to plague the country's education system and disadvantaged students of color. Rather than addressing those problems, NAACP President Derrick Johnson declared that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos "exploited the pandemic to promote her personal agenda of funneling taxpayer dollars...
While more than 2 million Michigan workers were forced into unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic, the state's billionaires saw their net worth increase by $2.8 billion, per Forbes. Five of Michigan's eight billionaires saw increases in wealth in the three months since the pandemic began, to a combined $33.4 billion, according to analysis of Forbes data by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness. Forbes has a real-time billionaires list, which updates daily with...
Two weeks after she attempted to take her own life, Tamar Braxton is speaking out, thanking fans, God and more for the support as she walks through this difficult journey with mental illness and healing. "Thank you to each and every individual who has prayed for me, thought of me, sent me their love and has showered me with their support," the statement began. "In this present moment, it is my only responsibility to be real with myself and to be real with the ones who truly love me and care for...
Getting back to work means getting some cash in your wallet, which in turn, goes back into our now lagging economy. Perhaps you wish to become one of the newly employed now that Congress has allowed additional unemployment support to expire. If so, read on for employment opportunities in our area. Eden Foods in Detroit is hiring for a full-time operator/pasta maker. Duties include operation of pasta making and packaging equipment, monitoring quality of product, and maintaining cleanliness of...
The president decides to only federally fund guard activities at 75%, leaving states with additional costs LANSING. -- Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued the following statement after President Trump granted her request that he authorize the use of Michigan National Guard forces for COVID-19 response through December 31, 2020. Title 32 authority, which allows director confirmed Monday in a statement. That includes critical door-knocking efforts and collecting responses online, over the...
