The Metro: Lyme disease cases surge as ticks expand into Southeast Michigan
Reported Lyme Disease cases in Michigan nearly quadrupled between 2022 and 2025.Blacklegged ticks (deer ticks), which transmit Lyme Disease hitch...
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The Metro: Lyme disease cases surge as ticks expand into Southeast Michigan
Reported Lyme Disease cases in Michigan nearly quadrupled between 2022 and 2025.Blacklegged ticks (deer ticks), which transmit Lyme Disease hitch...
The Metro: Smartphone ban coming to Michigan K-12 classrooms
Michigan will be enacting a statewide school phone ban for students from kindergarten through 12th grade this fall.Many schools already...
The Metro: What happens when women hold the door open for each other
It is one of the older and more uncomfortable patterns in working life: women in power sometimes pull the ladder...
The Metro: Jocelyn Benson on the cost of living, data centers and the race for governor
Michigan picks its next governor in November, and the Democratic frontrunner is Jocelyn Benson. Benson made her name as Secretary...
The Metro: Detroit lands a professional women’s hockey team in the league’s fourth season
A Professional Women's Hockey League team is coming to Detroit – a milestone that was inevitable. The hockey fans here...
The Metro: For the LGBTQ + community, affirming one’s identity, Is a source of real psychological strength
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Why does that framing always skip over what we survived? Or how we're...
The Metro: New book captures Detroit’s summer spirit and asks who its outdoor spaces were really built for
"Black Summers" - a book about growing up in the urban outdoors - is a compilation of writings from Detroiters....
The Metro: Why Jennifer Granholm says our politics have gotten so much worse today
How much has politics changed in the last 20 years? That was a different time — a time before President...
The Metro: Justin Onwenu says state government should protect residents from the ‘insanity’ of national politics
Life is becoming less affordable for Michiganders. And in Lansing, despite the constraints they face, many believe lawmakers are not...
The Metro: Why Rx Kids has bipartisan support from all corners of Michigan
Money is getting tighter. The cost of life can be even more daunting if you have a kids. Children are...
The Metro: Darryl DeAngelo Terrell’s art builds a world where Black gay life can thrive
Liberation work doesn't look one way. For multidisciplinary artist Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, it looks like photography, videography, and sound working...
The Metro: For Black LGBTQ+ Detroiters Club Heaven was more than a dancefloor, it was a lifeline.
Before the massive crowds and international acts that the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit has grown to attract, electronic...