Detroit Water and Sewerage Department resumes shutoffs
After a three-year pause, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department declared that it will resume residential water shutoffs for residents who are behind on their bills.
•Sam Ayrshire
The 2014 Detroit Bankruptcy
10 years after the Detroit bankruptcy
Metro Detroit enclave Highland Park cannot pay for water
A raging battle over water and other natural resources is taking place across the US as Wall Street utilizes the necessities of life to extract every penny possible from workers.
•Nancy Hanover
“I am fighting for my students and my program”: Outspoken educator targeted as Detroit school officials prepare mass layoffs
Music teacher Kay Thomas is being victimized with the direct collusion of the Detroit Federation of Teachers bureaucracy.
•Phyllis Steele, Zac Corrigan
Federal judge hears motion for injunction against end of water shutoff moratorium in Detroit
The judge said she would announce her decision on whether the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) can resume cutting off water to city residents by the end of the week.
•Kathleen Martin
Behind Donald Trump’s grant of clemency for corrupt former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
The alignment of the interests of the felon Kilpatrick with the fascistic Trump says much about the decay of American capitalism and the descent of both the Democrats and Republicans into political reaction and open criminality.
•Brady Leonard, Kevin Reed
The Democrats and Detroit
The bitter experience of Detroit workers exposes the claims by Sanders, Warren and others that the Democrats represent a genuine alternative to Trump’s reactionary policies.
•Jerry White
Amid mounting opposition, former Michigan Governor Snyder withdraws from Harvard fellowship
The decision came in the face of widespread opposition on the Harvard campus, in Flint, Michigan, and nationally.
•Sheila Brehm
Five years since Detroit bankruptcy
Moody’s warns investors about Detroit’s mounting debt
Moody’s Investors Service has issued major warnings about the ability to meet bond payments and financial shortfalls in the city’s public schools.
•Debra Watson
Fifteen workers hospitalized after explosion at US Steel mill south of Detroit
According to local news reports, workers initially refused a supervisor’s directive to clean out a dust separator, warning that it posed a safety issue.
•Jessica Goldstein
Detroit water shutoffs to resume in midst of punishing heat wave
Detroit water shutoffs will resume this week, after a one-week pause, though extremely high temperatures and heat advisories in Detroit are expected to continue throughout the summer.
•Debra Watson
Detroit exits bankruptcy, but conditions remain bleak
The federal courts and the state government are relinquishing direct control over city operations, entrusting further budget cuts and austerity measures to the administration of Democratic Mayor Mike Duggan.
•Helen Halyard
Police kill two men in two days in Detroit suburbs
The killings last Monday and Tuesday went largely unreported in the media, perhaps because they took place in middle-class suburban areas rather than the inner city.
•a reporter
Police kill two men in two days in Detroit suburbs
The killings last Monday and Tuesday went largely unreported in the media, perhaps because they took place in middle-class suburban areas rather than the inner city.
•a reporter
Twelve-year-old boy dies in Detroit area fire
While the fire is still under investigation, authorities are looking at a space heater as the cause of the fatal blaze.
•Jerry White
Corporate interests, racial politics dominate Detroit mayoral election
With the backing of the city’s major corporations and the Democratic political establishment, incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan is expected to be reelected in today’s mayoral election.
•Tyler Van Dyke
Some Detroit-area residents left homeless after eviction from condemned low-income motel
The deplorable conditions faced by low-income renters in the Detroit area highlight the crisis of affordable housing in the United States.
•Debra Watson
Temporary shutdown of GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant signals new threat to auto jobs
Some 1,800 workers at the facility face a six-week layoff starting in mid-November, with the indefinite layoff of 200 workers planned for January.
•Shannon Jones
As Detroit mayoral election approaches, water shutoffs continue amidst pervasive poverty
As the election approaches, persistent and shocking levels of poverty in Detroit and continuing residential water shutoffs belie claims that the city is making a comeback.
•Debra Watson
As teachers narrowly ratify concessions deal
Billionaire’s Detroit sports arena to take $34.5 million in school tax money
Detroit public schools will lose millions of dollars due to continuing handouts to the city’s billionaire developers.
•J. Cooper
Experts warn of public health crisis as Detroit rejects halt to water shutoffs
Data from the Henry Ford Global Health Initiative found that patients are 1.55 times more likely to get a water-borne illness if they live on a block where a water shutoff occurs.
•Kathleen Martin