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A battle over the voting districts in Detroit has landed in the Supreme Court, but any ruling may come too late for 2024 state elections.
A new study finds more emergency medicine residencies are available, but hundreds of the positions are going unfilled.
Detroit residents with past-due bills are facing water shut-offs again after a reprieve during COVID-19. At the same time, providers are also raising rates.
A scholar works to document a dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother in the Great Lakes region.
A work stoppage hitting the three largest American automakers at the same time is unprecedented.
Reuther was both ambitious and pragmatic, scoring many victories for autoworkers.
A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1. His legacy includes songs that memorialize tragic shipping disasters and the 1968 Detroit Uprising.
Community wealth building is a direct response to extractive policies and aims to build an economy on the principles of local ownership and control of assets.
When a local authority runs out of cash, it is its most vulnerable citizens who suffer the most from the cuts to services and staffing that follow.
The perishable nature of agri-food products makes any delay at the Canada-U.S. border costly to farmers, businesses and consumers.
A look back at how Canada secured auto investment in the past shows how a peripheral economy gained a major auto sector — and how it might hold onto it even in the face of U.S. protectionism on EVs.
Shoreline communities are already faltering under the weight of billions of dollars in damages — and worrying that climate change will continue to make things even worse.
Long distances often preclude families in the Motor City from sending their kids to the best schools in the area, new research shows.
Schools can impact the mental health and well-being of not just students but their parents, too.
Nurses on both sides of the border report that they aren’t getting the support they need to feel safe on the job and maintain their own health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With sales tax revenues plummeting because of the pandemic, many cities will face bankruptcy – and that could affect everything from retirees’ pensions to whether roads get fixed.
A federal court with jurisdiction over Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee found that the state governments have a legal obligation to ensure that children can learn how to read.
It helps when school leaders are open about their financial struggles before it’s too late to forge a good plan.
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