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Single-parent households, state losing House seat, recreational pot: Your Monday briefing

By Steve Neavling on December 3, 2018 Morning Briefing

Recreational marijuana becomes legal in Michigan on Thursday; Detroit ranks first among big cities with single-parent households; and the state will lose another seat on the U.S. House.

‘Tricycle Collective’ aims to save 10 families from losing homes to tax foreclosure

By Steve Neavling on October 16, 2014 Headline, Wayne County

Michele Oberholtzer was surveying tax-foreclosed properties in Detroit when she was shocked by the number of homes still occupied by families with children.