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☆ Detroit put up a $400,000 Hollywood-style sign that residents think is so ugly they are making diss tracks about it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Detroit spent $400,000 on a new Hollywood-style sign as it hosts the NFL Draft. Detroit views the NFL Draft as a chance to showcase its recovery after years of financial trouble. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Detroit rapper Gmac Cash asks in his new single, "Detroit Sign." Related storyCash, a local Detroit rapper, has several songs about landmark attractions in the city, usually with a comedic spin.

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☆ Detroit is getting ready to host the NFL draft a decade after going bankrupt
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Detroit is set to host the NFL draft next month, a decade after it went bankrupt. Mayor Mike Duggan told BI that he hopes the event will reintroduce the city to the rest of the US. AdvertisementThe new DetroitApril's NFL draft — one of the biggest weekends on the sporting calendar — is set to bring eyeballs back to Detroit. AdvertisementDowntown Detroit will host the 2024 NFL draft. "No matter where you went in southeastern Michigan, everyone was smiling and talking to each other about the Lions," Duggan added.

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DETROIT (AP) — Influential longtime Detroit pastor the Rev. Adams spent a half-century as pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church before retiring in 2019. “As a pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. From 1962-1969, he was pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Boston, before being appointed pastor at Hartford Memorial. Adams is survived by his wife, Agnes Adams; daughter, Tara Adams Washington; and son, the Rev.

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☆ Housing economists have a great idea that could fix just about everything
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"A land value tax would fix that" has become a popular, and sometimes comedic, Twitter response to a range of policy conundrums among urbanists and YIMBYs. It would incentivize landowners to maximize the revenue from their property — building an apartment building instead of, for example, a parking lot. And because rich individuals and corporations own most land in cities and towns, land taxes would disproportionately fall on the wealthiest. Pure Georgists advocate for abolishing all taxes besides land value taxes. Instead, they want to see more regressive levies — like sales taxes — or those that penalize investment — like property taxes — reduced.

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Union wages, and the battles to keep them, have elevated the fortunes of countless Black families, Brooks said. “Black people could take advantage of that and buy homes in neighborhoods throughout Detroit,” Perry said. “Without the union jobs, (employers) can do anything, say anything and you're out the door,” she said. Only about 25% of Detroit's residents are in that range, and about two-thirds of city residents earn less than $50,000 per year, Goss said. Martin described her childhood during the 1970s and 1980s in her predominantly Black Detroit neighborhood as among the “happiest times” of her life.

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CNN —Investigators are searching for a motive in the death of a Detroit synagogue leader found stabbed over the weekend, the city’s police chief said. The body of Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was discovered with multiple stab wounds at her home on Saturday morning, the Detroit Police Department said in a statement. “Understandably, this crime leaves many unanswered questions,” Detroit Police Chief James E. White said in a statement on social media site X. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President,” the synagogue said. “This entire city joins with her family and friends in mourning her tragic death.”A law enforcement agent walks near the scene where Samantha Woll was found dead in Detroit on Saturday.

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CNN —The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead Saturday morning with multiple stab wounds outside her home, police said. The victim, Samantha Woll, was the president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, which is in downtown Detroit, the synagogue said in a Facebook post. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President,” the synagogue said. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Woll’s death “has left a huge hole in the Detroit community.”In a statement, Duggan said he and Woll were celebrating the newly renovated synagogue together just a few weeks ago. The congresswoman said Woll “dedicated her short life to building understanding across faiths, bringing light in the face of darkness.”The Democrat said Woll worked for her by helping set up the office and leading it throughout her first term.

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DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death outside her home Saturday, police said. Woll, 40, had led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue since 2022 and was a former aide to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and campaign staffer for Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Detroit Free Press reported. Police have not identified a possible motive and are investigating, the Free Press reported. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesPolice found Woll around 6:30 a.m. after someone called to alert them of a person lying on the ground unresponsive, the Free Press reported. “Sam’s loss has left a huge hole in the Detroit community," the mayor said.

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Mike Duggan and his hockey buddies were strapping on their gear one recent morning when their banter hopscotched, as it frequently does, to the subject of joint replacement surgeries. Duggan, 74, the proud owner of an artificial hip, marveled at the sheer number of titanium body parts in the locker room. He gestured toward Mitch Boriskin, who was wiggling into a pair of skates along the opposite wall. “I don’t think there’s an original part on you,” Duggan said. “Two fake knees, a spinal cord stimulator, 25 surgeries,” he began, as if reciting a box score.

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☆ Detroit Takes On Problems That Were Once Beyond Reach
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Mitch Smith | More About Mitch Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Did I ever think I ever could go to a mayor eight years ago and present to him a wedding party venue? I was trying to get trash trucks.”Detroit remains a place with abundant problems. And, according to census data that the mayor disputes, Detroit’s decades-long population decline has persisted, with about 620,000 residents today. In 1950, the city’s population peaked at more than 1.8 million. The waterfront on the Detroit River, once an unwelcoming mass of concrete, now features scenic walkways and fishing spots shared by residents and tourists.

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