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A new, enhanced Motor City Muckraker for 2014

When we launched Motor City Muckraker in the summer of 2012, we wanted to explore Detroit in ways that the local media hadn’t.

Once lined with opulent homes, Alfred Street in Brush Park is largely vacant, an early victim of residential flight.

This year’s goal was to hold public officials accountable and shed light on underserved neighborhoods.

By Tracey Morris on December 25, 2013 Headline, posts

We hired three Santas – Soused, Salacious, and Reluctant.

Mike Duggan’s first move was nominating an interim fire commissioner with a strong background.

The project, “Station Walls,” features some of the most eye-catching graffiti in Detroit.

An internal report raises serious questions about the new Detroit office and the people sent to work there.

“The defendant’s first thought was to bring a shotgun to the door, not call for help,” the judge said.

A reasonable person would have feared for his life and therefore been justified in pulling the trigger, attorney says.

The Brewsters are the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.