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Former WXYZ reporter settles $100M sexual harassment lawsuit
Former WXYZ-TV reporter Tara Edwards has settled a $100 million lawsuit that claims she was subjected to almost daily sexual harassment and the station failed to adequately respond. Details of the...
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Far-right Proud Boys member sits on city council of predominately Hispanic...
A member of the Proud Boys, a far-right group known for racist, misogynistic and violent rhetoric, sits on a city commission representing the predominately Hispanic population of Fennville in western...
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Hunting for a president
After 15 interminable months, God knows how many debates, thousands of campaign ads, a million polls, a billion VERY URGENT fundraising emails, frontrunners collapsing (sorry, Kamala), nobodies...
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Savage Love: My daughter is a cam girl
I started reading your column when I was a 20-year-old kid. Now I'm an old married lady with 20 years of (more or less) blissful married monogamy behind me. My oldest daughter, who is 23, just came...
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Before ‘The Simpsons’ took off, Matt Groening’s cartoons were published in...
Looking back on 40 years of MT 30 years ago in Metro Times: Film writer Sandra Ratliff interviews cartoonist Matt Groening, whose comic Life in Hell appeared weekly in Metro Times.…
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Son confronts father's 'racist' outburst at Michigan school meeting
Sometimes wisdom isn’t defined by age. That was made clear Monday when a young man called out his father for making a racist remark to a Mexican immigrant during a community conversation about...
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Gov. Whitmer disputes Trump's claims of strong economy: 'Strong for whom?'
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump gave his third — and hopefully, final — State of the Union address, where he touted what he has called a "blue-collar boom" for America's middle class."In just...
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Bill passed to name Detroit post office after Aretha Franklin, our queen
We continue to honor our queen because she will always be our queen. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3976, which renamed the post office located at 12711 E. Jefferson Ave. in Detroit the...
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Hillsdale offers online history course it claims free of bias
Michigan’s Hillsdale College is launching an online history course that the nationally recognized purveyor of conservative and classical-liberal studies claims will present American history free of...
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Tlaib urges EPA to investigate chemical leaks at Marathon Oil in southwest...
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform are calling for a federal investigation into a pungent chemical leak that hospitalized at least two people at the Marathon...
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Detroit's notorious slumlords and speculators slapped with wide-ranging lawsuit
It’s a perpetual cycle that has turned many Detroit neighborhoods into virtual ruins: Suburban, money-grubbing speculators and slumlords buy cheap, run-down houses and fail to make any improvements...
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Lawsuit challenges Wayne County's seizure practices
The Institute for Justice (IJ), a nonprofit libertarian law firm, filed a federal, class-action lawsuit alleging Wayne County’s vehicle seizure practices are unconstitutional.…
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Whitmer's recommended $61.9B 2021 budget increases education spending with...
One priority of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recommended $61.9 billion 2021 budget is education spending. The budget aims to provide the largest funding increase for classroom operations in 20 years.…
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Michigan is monitoring a new possible case of coronavirus in Oakland County
Michigan is monitoring a possible new case of novel coronavirus in Oakland County. The state sent a specimen to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta for testing.…
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Detroit to outperform Michigan in job growth, study says
Detroit’s recovery will continue with relatively strong gains in household income, employment, and labor force participation through 2024, according to a report by the city and the University of...
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Wayne County Judge David Parrott charged with assaulting his girlfriend
A Wayne County district judge was charged Monday with domestic violence after police arrested him Saturday night following a dispute with his girlfriend at their Van Buren Township home. Judge David...
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Enormous art installation begins taking shape on Detroit's east side
Detroit is building walls, but not to keep people out. City officials are teaming up with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) to create one of the largest municipal art installations in Detroit history.…
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Michigan doesn't have enough funds to compensate even one wrongfully...
According to a recent report from the National Registry of Exonerations, wrongful convictions aren't as rare as one might think. In fact, 2018 was a record-setting period, with 1,639 combined years...
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