1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. Scroll down to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. 2015 In 1937, blacks in the city lived north of town or in pockets […]
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Citizens cannot do their job of running their government if they don’t know what their public servants are doing.
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Flint, then and now
1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. To enlarge those descriptions, click on it and it will appear on the left. Scroll around to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. […]
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Grand Rapids, then and now
1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. To enlarge those descriptions, click on it and it will appear on the left. Scroll around to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. […]
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Detroit, then and now
1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. To enlarge those descriptions, click on it and it will appear on the left. Scroll around to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. […]
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Bay City, then and now
1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. To enlarge those descriptions, click on it and it will appear on the left. Scroll around to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. […]
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Battle Creek, then and now
1937 On the historic maps, click on an area to see the appraiser’s description, which will appear on the right. To enlarge those descriptions, click on it and it will appear on the left. Scroll around to see how they identified the neighborhood and its inhabitants and how appraisers felt about the area’s long-term prospects. […]
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With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
What a difference a Trump Administration makes. Undocumented farm workers are down. And nearly 6,000 agricultural visas have been approved for Michigan farmers this year – 10 times more than 2013.
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In Michigan: Who wins, who loses if GOP efforts slay Obamacare
Find out what pacemakers, tanning salons and buff young people have in common.
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Reviving war on drugs could carry big costs in Michigan
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is moving to reverse Obama policies in federal prosecutions that he views as soft on drugs. Doing so, though, could increase costs. A similar tough-on-crime approach in Michigan would reverse years of inmate declines.
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Lansing Republicans drop the mantle of ‘local control’
The party of small government has unleashed a barrage of bills that forbid Michigan cities and towns from crafting their own policies relating to zoning, law enforcement, cigarette sales and the environment.