The nation’s largest Chapter 9 proceeding left Michigan’s biggest city standing on its own legs again, but those legs are shaky. Detroit Journalism Cooperative members look at how the stakeholders are doing.
Nancy Derringer
Nancy Nall Derringer is a former reporter at Bridge
Posted inChildren & Families
Teen births declining in Michigan. But hurdles in northern, rural counties.
‘Babies having babies’ isn’t the problem it once was. But rates are higher in northern, rural counties, in a state where school districts may opt out of sex ed entirely.
Posted inSuccess
How one plucky Michigan town is rebuilding its housing market
Land banks were conceived to help counties stabilize property values in a changing economy. But Oakland County doesn’t have a land bank. So tiny Hazel Park essentially created its own, and is beginning to reap the benefits.
Posted inSuccess
What’s so good about land banks? A Q&A
Want to take a chance on a piece of property the last owner couldn’t handle?
Posted inQuality of Life
Improved smiles for some low-income Michigan children
Medicaid expansion and innovative programs are giving more low-income Michigan children a shot at healthy dental care. But access still lags in some rural and urban areas, and impoverished adults continue to suffer from lack of preventative care after years of uncertain funding.
Posted inQuality of Life
Effort to ban fluoride in drinking water makes little headway in Michigan
Concern over fluoride’s effect on the human body – and some anti-government sentiment – is forcing dentists and scientists to defend the longstanding practice of putting fluoride in water systems to improve dental health.
Posted inChildren & Families
For impoverished Michiganders, a little help in the kitchen
Low-income people often find it harder to eat well. Classes designed to teach basic cooking skills, and how to find food growing wild on vacant lots, aim to fill the gap.
Posted inTalent & Education
In campus hospitals, beds full of drinking casualties
Game day: Bridge looks at college drinking DAY 1 A Game Day diary In campus hospitals, beds full of drinking casualties Stone-cold sober on game day? It really happens Slideshow: UofM game day drinking Slideshow: MSU game day drinking DAY 2 What we can do to reduce extreme college drinking How one Nebraska school cut […]
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan wants Lansing, schools to lead on college affordability
Michigan residents believe strongly that students need a college degree or job training after high school to succeed. Yet the high cost of college has many questioning whether the loan debt is worth it.
Posted inMichigan Government
An accident runner, a chiropractor, and the push to curb no-fault insurance
The insurance industry cites schemes involving morally flexible lawyers and overactive doctors as reason to curb Michigan’s no-fault law. Critics say Lansing’s “reform” legislation would hurt the most seriously injured.
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