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Lisa Diggs: Take a Stand During 'Michigan Week'

2013-05-20T18:32:50Z

Together, we are revitalizing Michigan's economy one product, one purchase, one person at a time. Join in the fun and make a difference this Michigan Week.

Read more: Public Schools, Michigan Week, Detroit Public Schools, Shopping, Flint, Lansing, Michigan, Buy Local, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Schools, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, Detroit, Detroit News

Xaque Gruber: Grammy Winner Allee Willis Unites Detroit in Song With 'The D'

2013-05-20T17:22:39Z

Reinvention and constantly shifting one's perspective to stay inspired is at the heart of Willis' philosophy of creativity. This philosophy has served her as a successful music maker, and she notes, "reinvention is as vital for places as it is for people."

Read more: Earth Wind and Fire, Allee Willis, Michigan, Motor City, Detroit, The D, Grammy Awards, Motown, Video, Detroit News

Leonard Slatkin: Star-Spangled Baton?

2013-05-18T11:12:20Z

No sooner had the announcement been made that Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons would become the new maestro for the Boston Symphony than some commentators started in on the perennial question, "Why do Americans rarely get a top flight music directorship in the United States?"

Read more: Andris Nelsons, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Detroit, Arts News

Stacy Parker Le Melle: Detroit Is for Lovers: Talking Home, Family and Basketball Dreams With Poet Matthew Olzmann

2013-05-09T13:28:42Z

Matthew Olzmann is one of a handful of poets I know that can win over those who think they hate poetry. He wins over the haters because he is funny, but also because the poems have doors that open and invite you inside.

Read more: Dilruba Ahmed, Bad Boys, Matthew Olzmann, Spock, Vievee Francis, Eugene Cross, Janine Oshiro, Mountain Dew, Alice James Books, Greg Wren, Detroit Pistons, Isaiah Thomas, Detroit, Jennine Capo Crucet, Kundiman, Mezzanines, Detroit Arts, Books News

Rick Sperling: Mosaic, Hastings Street and Miller High: History Hiding in Plain Sight

2013-05-08T18:16:47Z

In 2001, Mosaic was commissioned by Detroit 300 to create a play that would showcase Detroit's rich history, in honor of the city's 300th anniversary celebration, and this play was the result.

Read more: 1943 Race Riot, Schiller Hall, Miller, Paradise Valley, Detroit-1943, Hastings Street, Mosaic Youth Theatre, Black Bottom, Detroit, Detroit History, Detroit News

Kenzo Shibata: What's the Plan for Chicago Public Schools? Look No Further Than Detroit

2013-05-08T09:26:33Z

If the goal is truly to fix public education in Chicago, would there be a need for marketing lessons for CPS bureaucrats? If during moments of honesty, managers talk about "blowing up" and "dismantling" a district, having a detailed script may be necessary.

Read more: Robert Bobb, Detroit Emergency Manager, Chicago Public Schools, Charter Schools, Detroit Public Schools, Roy Roberts, Cps, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, School Closings, Detroit, CPS Closings, Video, Chicago News

Sen. Bert Johnson: A Message for U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: EAA Is a Failed Experiment

2013-05-07T09:01:22Z

The Educational Achievement Authority is an experiment that has failed. Legislators are considering a bill to expand it from its current 15-school version in Detroit to a statewide district that takes over the "bottom 5 percent" of schools. This system must be abolished completely, certainly not expanded statewide.

Read more: Education, Educational Achievement Authority, EAA Detroit, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Eaa, Education Policy, Detroit, Education Reform, Public Education, Michigan, Barack Obama, Rick Snyder, Detroit Politics, Detroit News

LOOK: Race Wall That Once Separated Blacks And Whites Still Standing

2013-05-01T10:11:35Z

DETROIT -- When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit's Birwood Street in 1959, she didn't know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet...

Read more: Video, Detroit Development, Detroit Wall, Race Wall, Detroit Art, Detroit, Detroit Blacks, Detroit Impact, Detroit Race Wall, Detroit Real Estate, African-American History, Detroit Politics, Detroit News

Terry Blackhawk: Reflecting on Creativity: Getting It "Right"

2013-04-30T13:54:31Z

Just one block away on Trumbull stands an all too typical boarded up, burned out example of Detroit's abandonment and decay. But walk a few more steps and you'll find a building of the same vintage, transformed into a beautiful, living testimony to the arts.

Read more: InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Arts Challenge, Knight Foundation Detroit, Detroit Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Arts Education, Detroit, Detroit News

Patrick O'Connor: How Many Detroit Grads Can Go to College for Free? All of Them

2013-04-26T16:55:26Z

Free college for every single one of Detroit's high school graduates. The beginning of business as usual.

Read more: Financial Aid, Applying to College, College, Paying for College, College Admissions, Detroit, Detroit Impact, Detroit Scholarship Fund, Detroit News

LOOK: Haunting Photos Of Abandoned Theaters

2013-04-26T13:55:24Z

There are abandoned theaters everywhere -- in boarded up church basements, shuttered schools, closed hospitals. Drive through any small town, find Mai...

Read more: Best of Detroit, Stages of Decay, Abandoned Theaters, Video, Urban Decay, Julia Solis, Detroit, Julia Solis Photographer, Julia Solis Stages of Decay, Ruin Porn, Detroit Arts, Abandoned Theaters Julia Solis, Stages of Decay Julia Solis, Detroit News

Terry Blackhawk: A Whirl of a Week in Words

2013-04-22T15:39:38Z

A poem in your pocket? A poem in your mind or heart? I'm happy to report that here in Detroit, The Word is thriving, and for this poet, as National Poetry Month comes to a close, it's been a whirl of a Week in Words.

Read more: Bill Harris, Scholastic Writing and Youth Awards, National Student Poetry Program, Detroit Vegan Soul, President's Committee for the Arts and the Humanities, ArtX Detroit Experience, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Naomi Long Madgett, 826 Michigan, Youth Poetry, Peter Markus, Kresge Foundation, Francine Harris, Kim Hunter, Detroit, Detroit Arts and Culture, Detroit News

Lea Lane: Al Neuharth: My Mentor, 55 Years Ago

2013-04-22T12:51:13Z

After a week of blazing headlines, the death of Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and former CEO of Gannett Company, was lost in the back pages.

Read more: Miami, Women, huffpost50, USA Today, Gannett Papers, Al Neuharth, Ford Motor Company, Celebrities, Miami Herald, Detroit, Al Neuharth Dead, Media News

Charles R. Wolfe: Movement and Settlement, Upside Down

2013-04-22T11:49:10Z

Last week, I participated in the Project for Public Spaces' Placemaking Leadership Council inaugural meeting in Detroit. The event left several impr...

Read more: Photography, Placemaking, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Architecture, Green News, Sustainability, Community, Livable Cities, Urbanism, Cities, Detroit, Culture, Detroit News

Jason Lorimer: Put Yourself Out There

2013-04-19T11:10:17Z

I vehemently believe that Detroit is a place and time where we can come together to design our collective outcomes. It is indeed the opportunity of a generation and it will take everyone, incoming and resident, black and white, young and old to harness it.

Read more: Detroit Impact, Detroit, Jason Lorimer, Racial Segregation, Internet Memes, An Entrepreneurial White Guy, Memes, Detroit Politics, Detroit News

Global Yodel: Places We've Left Behind

2013-04-16T12:53:52Z

Have you ever stumbled upon an abandoned building and experienced a sense of wonder? What was this? Who built it? Do the people who used to live, work or go to school here care that it's now a crumbling shell? Here's a collection of places that have been abandoned.

Read more: Outer Banks, The Netherlands, Germany, Langley, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Local, British Columbia, Travel, California, Poletown, Michigan, Wan Chai, Amsterdam, Global Yodel, Slidepollajax, Czech Republic, North Carolina, Detroit, Nudersdorf, Travel News

Sen. Bert Johnson: The GOP's Problem of Selective Transparency

2013-04-13T14:43:36Z

This year, in an unprecedented shift away from transparency, the General Government budget legislation allots two bulk sums of money, totaling nearly $240 million, to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. I believe this is bad governance.

Read more: Transparency, Good Government, Detroit, Gop, Michigan, Republican Party, Michigan Politics, Detroit Politics, Republicans, Detroit News

Patrick Geans-Ali: With Two Strikes Against It, Detroit Future City Must Connect With Concerns of Citizens

2013-04-11T17:09:49Z

How can you design a plan to revitalize the city and attract people to live here without addressing the pollution emanating from the industrial corridor and the Detroit Incinerator, which are so near the areas highlighted for redevelopment like Southwest Detroit and Mid-town?

Read more: Environmentalism, Environmental Justice, Detroit Future City, Sierra Club, State of the Environment Report, Detroit, Detroit News

Lauren Cavanagh: Hypothermia, Heartburn and High Blood Pressure -- It Must Have Been the Detroit Tiger's Opening Weekend

2013-04-10T18:08:53Z

Opening Day in Detroit is a holiday. It doesn't end after the home opener, either. It is a weekend of celebration. But unfortunately, with the good, comes the bad...

Read more: Tigers, Sports, Brennan Boesch, Torii Hunter, Baseball, Miguel Cabrera, Detroit, Don Kelly, Detroit News

Government Moves Closer To Ending Sad Chapter In GM's History

2013-04-10T18:37:58Z

DETROIT (AP) — The government has sold another piece of its stake in General Motors Co.
The Treasury Department said in its March rep...

Read more: Auto Bailout, Treasury Department, Video, JPMorgan Securities, General Motors, GM Bailout, GM Bankruptcy, Citigroup Global Markets, Detroit, Gm, Ap, Business News

Benny Napoleon: Spirit of Detroit Statue Represents the Potential for Our Great City

2013-04-10T15:33:14Z

Somehow we have lost our way as a city. We have lost sight of what really matters to our quality of life and to a strong Detroit.

Read more: Spirit of Detroit, Detroit, City of Detroit, Wayne County, Detroit Mayor, Detroit Around Town, Spirit of Detroit Statue, Detroit News

Leonard Slatkin: Home, Sweet Homes

2013-04-09T15:50:59Z

Lyon is the city that I have called my second home for the past two years. Being music director with two orchestras requires a very good set of plans and an even better understanding of the airlines. It also means that I must balance my roles in both Detroit and France.

Read more: Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Lyon, Leonard Slatkin, Orchestra, Detroit Music, Arts News

Is Detroit's Problem Really Just A Lack Of Revenue?

2013-04-08T08:41:32Z

One common theme in the media across the state and nationally has been the tale of how the city of Detroit's financial crisis stems from a lack of rev...

Read more: Detroit, Detroit Financial Crisis, Detroit Revenues, Dave Bing, Detroit Business, Detroit State Revenue, Detroit News

Amy Berkhoudt: Meet The Young People Who Really Believe In Detroit

2013-04-06T12:53:53Z

This post is part of our Millennial Impact spring series "Getting Fresh." These blogs highlight our young, innovative contributors who have new ideas ...

Read more: Detroit Food and Entrepreneurship Academy, Food Justice, Education, Detroit Youth Food Brigade, Social Entrepreneurship, Noam Kimelman, Detroit Food Academy, Detroit Impact, Amy Berkhoudt, Detroit, Detroit Opportunity, Detroit Youth, Experiential Education, Jen Rusciano, Millennial-Impact, Impact News

Amanda Brewington: Unfinished Business... Or Why I Left My Office Jobs

2013-04-03T18:10:49Z

When something needs to be accomplished I would rather stay up late and get something done in one day rather than spend two days doing something. This is why I didn't fare well in an office setting. And now I know why.

Read more: Time, Time Management, Money, Starting Your Own Business, Working Women, Career Advice, Enjoying Life, The Office, Work-Life Balance, Saving Money, Opportunity-Working, Waiters, Jobs After College, Life After College, Workplace, Detroit Around Town, Restaurants, Detroit, Working in These Times, New Business, Changing Careers, Job Search, Career Change, Detroit News