As Dan Gilbert keeps buying buildings in downtown Detroit more than 70, now we're seeing the prospect of new businesses, new tenants, and new people downtown. Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer wonders what this means in terms of private secur...
Monarch butterflies are not around in the numbers they used to be not by a long shot. By some estimates, monarch populations have dropped by 90% over the past twenty years. But why has that happened to these iconic butterflies? On a butterfly survey...
Imagine choreographing thousands of people into formations to look like famous things like the Liberty Bell, or the Statue of Liberty. Sound like a stunt? Maybe a little nutty? Well, that's exactly what Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas did in the ea...
I have to say, I never thought they would name the new Detroit River bridge after hockey legend Gordie Howe. We've been calling it the New International Trade Crossing so long it was at first hard to think of it as anything else. Originally, planners...
It's a question that will attract more attention than it might have before Detroit's bankruptcy raised the spectre of selling off the Detroit Institute of Artscollection to help pay down the city's crushing debt. Fortunately, the DIA survived unscath...
When we talk about immigrant communities in Detroit, the Hmong don't usually come up in that conversation. The ethnic group from Southeast Asia began settling in Northeast Detroit's Osborn neighborhood in the years after the Vietnam War. More recentl...
Former U.S. Senator Robert Griffin, a conservative Republican from Traverse City, died last week, and if you aren't at least in your fifties, you may never have heard of him. Carl Levin beat Griffin when he tried to win a third term thirty-seven year...
A new art project that's made a stop in Michigan is trying to empower women and value girls by recognizing their potential. Girl Noticed has a message and is stating in ten-foot-tall terms. Watching someone sketch is interesting. Watching someone ske...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the legality of same-sex marriage later this month, and a group of young conservatives is pushing to change the Republican Party platform on gay marriage. The group Young Conservatives for the Freedo...
There's a hotel boom happening in downtown Detroit. Once-abandoned buildings are now gleaming new hotels, or will be soon. But will these plans give Detroit too many hotel rooms or not enough? And there have been lengthy discussions over the two hote...