Community-based neighborhood organizations are responding with innovative practices to the foreclosure and crime crises that have eroded Detroit neighborhoods. Community organizations are increasingly taking on the work traditionally done by local government or individual homeowners. ...

As political observers prepare for three presidential debates and as activists continue to plan get-out-to-vote and voter protection efforts, at least one organization is focused on the next four years after the election, regardless of who wins. ...

By Shea Howell Special to the Michigan Citizen Almost every day Detroiters are confronted with some new effort to redevelop land. Most of these efforts are met with widespread suspicion, usually founded on bitter experiences of previous “development efforts.” Time and again we have seen a few people get rich while leaving the rest of us to deal with the pieces of shattered promises. All too frequently, thes ...

Corporate media has already dedicated a lot of ink to DMC’s Mike Duggan who last week formed an exploratory committee in his campaign for mayor? ...

By Marcus Wright Special to the Michigan Citizen DETROIT — Education Achievement Authority (EAA) administrators say the new district is doing fine. Parents and public education advocates say otherwise. In the last month, photos emerged of students, congregated in the auditorium at Mumford High Schoo,l because they didn’t have an assigned teacher for their classes. EAA Chief of Staff Tyrone Winfrey character ...

Regional transit authority gains momentum ...

The battle between the city’s water employees and management has no end in sight. On Sept. 30, members of AFSCME Local 207, wastewater plant workers, walked off the job. ...

The Bing Administration and Detroit Police top brass seem not to know or are ignoring the rumblings in the ranks. Detroit Police Officers Association President Joseph Duncan said officers aren’t happy. ...

By Yanjie Wang Special to the Michigan Citizen from Capital News Service LANSING — Michigan voters are waiting to decide the fate of Public Act 4 (PA4), known as the “Emergency Manager Law.” Among six ballot proposals in November, proposal 12-1 will ask voters to vote “yes” approving the emergency manager law or vote “no” to repeal the law. Public Act 4 establishes criteria to assess the financial condition ...

By Shea Howell Special to the Michigan Citizen Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press recently wrote about his frustration living in the dark. He wrote, “This is the fourth column I’ve written about this issue this year, and nearly the year mark from when I first noted the lights going out on major thoroughfares around the city. “The lights. Don’t. Work. In what other first-world city on the planet can ...