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Kids move on life size board game: Playful event hoped to stem hunger

Kids move on life size board game: Playful event hoped to stem hunger

Kids will be moving from space to space on a “life-sized” board game created to help drive-up food donations when they are needed most – the summer. Hunger does not end when the  last school bell of the year rings. Many of children who rely on school lunches will go hungry beginning with the first day of their summer recess. Gleaners estimates […]

Rebuilding and Revitalizing Detroit

More than a million. Since 1950, approximately 1.2 million people have left Detroit — a number equivalent to the population of Dallas. And the exodus continues, albeit slowing. According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data, the city is home to approximately 673,000 people and is barely hanging on in the top 25. While the […]

Putting Detroit Neighborhoods on the Map

Putting Detroit Neighborhoods on the Map

Driving down Woodward Avenue through downtown Detroit, the signs of major projects, completed or underway, are obvious. Construction of the QLINE is finished, and the streetcars are ferrying visitors and commuters from downtown to New Center. A few cranes are wrapping up work on the outside of the new Little Caesars Arena, while crews work […]