WITH NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE … : Each day, countless Michigan residents go about their routine business – but in the process do some far from routine things. Bridge will regularly feature some of their stories and the impact they are having on our state. (Bridge illustration/A.J. Jones) For many Americans, Memorial Day means cookouts […]
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Each day, Michigan is made a better place to live through the efforts — large and small — of private citizens and public servants. Bridge will feature those inspiring stories.
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Who are you? Detroit branding expert will help figure you out
WITH NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE … : Each day, countless Michigan residents go about their routine business – but in the process do some far from routine things. Bridge will regularly feature some of their stories and the impact they are having on our state. (Bridge illustration/A.J. Jones) DETROIT – Hajj Flemings is an expert […]
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Pushing 90, Avern Cohn not ready to adjourn career
WITH NEARLY 10 MILLION PEOPLE … : Each day, countless Michigan residents go about their routine business – but in the process do some far from routine things. Bridge will regularly feature some of their stories and the impact they are having on our state. (Bridge illustration/A.J. Jones) DETROIT — Notes on the family fridge […]
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Bridge sweeps online news category in Detroit SPJ contest
Bridge Magazine swept the online general news category in the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit Chapter’s Excellence in Journalism contest for 2012. In its first year of competition in the contest, Bridge garnered first-, second- and third-place awards for news coverage. Winners were announced April 17 at an event in Troy. Ron French Senior […]
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High hopes, high energy: Detroit teacher leads with flair
At the beginning of every school year, while other teachers are going over their first day lesson plans minute by minute, Pamela Harris-Hawthorne has a different goal. In fact, for the first couple weeks at Detroit Innovation Academy, Harris-Hawthorne doesn’t teach her fifth-graders a thing. She’s too busy getting to know them. “Once you know […]
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Bridge’s preschool package wins national reporting award
NATIONAL HONORS: Ten weeks of research and reporting went into “Forgotten 4-year-olds,” Bridge’s look at problems in Michigan’s early childhood system. This week, the Education Writers Association honored the series and its writer, Senior Writer Ron French, with a first prize in investigative reporting for a magazine. Bridge Magazine has been awarded a national […]
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Tom Izzo thinks this guy is great
In 1974, Marc Schupan took a leave from his job as a high school government teacher and coach to sort out his future. He thought about law school. Or maybe college coaching. First, he planned to spend a year helping with his family’s modest Kalamazoo scrap metal operation. But just a few weeks into the […]
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Leader of Grand Rapids homeless shelter keeps the focus on accountability
NO FREEBIES: Stuart Ray’s philosophy in leading the Guiding Light Mission in Grand Rapids is that giving a homeless people food and shelter without requiring work or effort in exchange is self-destructive to the men he’s trying to help. (Bridge photo/Lance Wynn) GRAND RAPIDS — A decade back, Stuart Ray was immersed in the business […]
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Putting college in reach for Michigan foster children
Western Michigan University sophomore Nikki Jenks is intent on beating the odds. Young people who spend years in foster care, as she did, are unlikely to make it to college, let alone graduate. Jenks bounced from home to home, peninsula to peninsula, school to school, and relative to stranger. At one point, she thought a […]
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Filmmaker grows ‘antidote’ to ‘ruin porn’ craze
If Detroit were an actor walking a Hollywood red carpet, it would be having a hot year. Two feature-length documentary films, “Detropia” and “Burn,” have gathered national attention for their looks at the deteriorating – and recovering – metropolis, with critics marveling at Detroit’s eye-popping vistas of decay and tarnished grandeur. But to independent filmmaker […]
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