Life in Detroit – Page 7 – Motor City Muckraker

Now & Then: Up in the Morning and Off to School in Detroit

Try to imagine what it’s like to wake up one morning, like I did recently, only to realize your childhood has been boarded up, abandoned, padlocked.

In a city like Detroit, where unemployment is rampant, fast food is anything but a temporary job.

Time is running out for a developer to transform Detroit’s symbol of industrial decline into housing, restaurants, retail space, offices and a hotel.

Brush Park residents and Tigers fans are getting robbed, sometimes at gunpoint.

Hundreds of Muslims filled a portion of the Jayne Field baseball complex on Detroit’s east side in observance of Eid al Fitr on Thursday.

You may know Stephanie’s long-lost siblings and biological dad.

If you’re interested in learning more about Detroit’s historic fall from industrial powerhouse, start with these books.

Detroit News Columnist Nolan Finley portrays Detroiters as fools who speak with one voice.

Fed up with the inundation of graffiti, some Detroiters are taking matters into their own hands

Vandals, scrappers and urban explorers are disrupting a pair of peregrine falcons and their chicks atop the Whittier.