The Metro: Detroit keeps rewriting its rental safety law. Landlords keep ignoring it
For four decades, Detroit has had the same law on the books: a landlord can’t rent you a home until...
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The Metro: Detroit keeps rewriting its rental safety law. Landlords keep ignoring it
For four decades, Detroit has had the same law on the books: a landlord can’t rent you a home until...
The Metro: Why an eviction defense program creating trust in Detroit’s legal system may not exist next year
For about three years, Detroit's Right to Counsel program has given free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction. The...
The Metro: Coal and ‘The Big Myth’ of the free market
For nearly 20 years, the U.S. has been closing its coal mines. Coal became too expensive, and gas, solar, and...
The Metro: Detroit’s 911 dispatchers are calling on Congress for help
You probably learned this as a kid: When something goes wrong, you call 911. Someone answers, and help is on...
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: A children’s art museum in Rosedale Park nurtures Detroit’s next generation of artists
Over in the Rosedale Park neighborhood on Grand River is an art gallery for children. It’s a space where some...
The Metro: Local stage play highlights the legacy of baseball icon Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente is a baseball icon. Over his 18-year career he won two world series, acquired 12 golden gloves, four...
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...
