Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who is running as an independent gubernatorial candidate, is refusing to say how he would handle federal immigration enforcement if elected governor, even as public opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement is surging nationwide.
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All eyes are on Tuesday’s special primary election in Michigan’s 35th. With Democrats barely holding a majority in the state Senate, the person who fills this seat will have the power to shape what Gov. Gretchen Whitmer can achieve in her final months in office. New reporting has revealed that fundraising committees tied to powerful […]
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The Detroit City Council voted in new leaders Monday.
WDET’S Bre’Anna Tinsley was there.
James Tate was voted President 5-4. He served as President Pro Tem under now mayor Mary Sheffield. He says he wants to strengthen how the council operates.
”For years, I have pushed for a legislative agenda, and while we have not fully realized that goal, I did help usher into our rules, a process that can move us there. That matters because it increases transparency, accountability, and it also provides the public a way to see our priorities and measure our progress.”
Coleman Young II was voted Pro Tem, defeating Mary Waters.
Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan says he’s bringing a message of unity to the state—the kind he says helped him bridge divides as mayor of Detroit.
As an independent Duggan won’t get any visibility from the party primary process. He says instead he’s visiting with small groups of voters across Michigan and finding many of them concerned about the same issues like affordable housing and job training opportunities.
Duggan says Republicans and Democrats are more interested in beating each other than working together to solve problems. “I have never seen a state more evenly divided than Michigan today. And people more fed up. I don’t think the climate’s ever been more fertile…to have a third option.”
Duggan claims rural voters in particular find they have more in common than they thought with the urban electorate that placed him at the top of Detroit’s city government. (Quinn Klinefelter)
The Brightmoor Artisan Collective is getting ready to launch a program for folks who want to start a food business.
Applications for the Retail Food Business Cohort are set to go live in a few weeks. Participants will be able to access free food safety certification, business plan development, networking events and a one year membership in the collective.
For more information visit brightmoorartisans.org.
The Detroit Parks and Rec Department is launching a slew of sports programs for kids this and next month. Offerings include tennis, baseball, volleyball, basketball, flag football, soccer and “sports movement.”
Programs will be offered at recreation and community centers throughout the city.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says the city generated a $105 million budget surplus in the last fiscal year.
He credits strategic decisions by city staffers for the savings. It’s the 11th annual budget surplus in a row. The mayor says the city now has a rainy-day fund of more than half a billion dollars.
The announcement was part of Duggan’s last news conference as mayor of Detroit. He is now running as an independent to become Michigan’s next governor.
Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield has announced that she’ll have a public swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 9. The celebration will give Detroiters a chance to watch the proceedings in person or online.
Sheffield and members of Detroit City Council will officially be sworn into office on New Year’s Day. The Jan. 9 event will take place at the Detroit Opera House. It’s free and open to the public.
Christmas Day is a federal and state holiday, meaning government offices will be closed Thursday. That includes the post office – so there will be no mail delivery. Detroit government offices will also be closed Thursday.
Most private businesses will be closed for the holiday as well.
Expect malls and shopping centers to be very busy tonight as consumers rush to pick up a few last-minute gifts before Christmas.
Don’t wait too late, though. Several retailers will close early tonight – and won’t be open at all on Thursday. That includes the region’s major grocery stores.
CVS will be open on Christmas Day, but hours may vary by location.
If you’re on the road over the holidays, there’s good news for you. Gas prices have been falling. In metro Detroit, a gallon of self-serve regular now averages $2.84. That’s roughly where it was a week ago, but that price is 21 cents cheaper than last month at this time.
The NFL has suspended Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf for two games following an altercation with a fan during the team’s game in Detroit last Sunday.
Metcalf will miss this weekend’s game in Cleveland and the regular-season finale against Baltimore. CBS-TV cameras captured the confrontation between Metcalf and a fan during the second quarter of Pittsburgh’s 29-24 win over Detroit.
The fan leaned over the railing and exchanged words with Metcalf before the Steeler ended the confrontation by swinging his arm at the fan’s face. (AP)
And the Detroit Lions play their next to last game of the regular season on Christmas Day. The team travels to Minneapolis to play the Minnesota Vikings in an NFC North battle.
The Lions’ playoff hopes are holding on by a slim thread after their loss to Pittsburgh.
Detroit now has a record of 8 wins and 7 losses. The Vikings have seven wins and 8 losses.
Kickoff is at 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday. The game will be televised on CBS 62.
Detroit Evening Report will take a break for Christmas Day – then we’ll have a week of special stories for the holidays.
From all of us here at WDET, merry Christmas and happy holidays!
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The Great Lakes Water Authority says a new tunnel will divert excess stormwater from a sewer line along the Rouge River to an under-used wastewater treatment plant in southwest Detroit. The $87 million project is expected to take at least two years to complete.
The agency expects the new tunnel will reduce the risk of flooding and sewage backups during heavy rains. State and federal grants are paying for the project, along with sewer rate revenue.
A voter-approved initiative that helped fund an expedited blight removal program in 2020 will end next year. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan gave his final update on the program Monday.
Duggan announced there are fewer than 1,000 abandoned homes left. That’s down from 47,000 in 2014. Of those remaining, 240 are scheduled to be demolished with the other 702 in the pipeline to be sold.
Duggan says the final steps will focus on addressing contaminated soil from sites where contractors used polluted backfill. He says there is still a $15 million reserve to address backfill contaminated sites.
Demolition work has begun on the old Southwest Detroit Hospital which has been abandoned since the early 90s. The site along Michigan Avenue is being cleared to make way for a new 15,000 seat soccer stadium where Detroit City Football Club will play its home games.
AlumniFi Field, as the stadium will be known, is expected to host its first match in 2027.
Detroit Downtown Development Authority has approved up to $5 million in cash toward the cost of renovations at the Little Caesars Arena for Detroit’s incoming WNBA team.
Renovations include a new locker room, modifications of game officials’ locker rooms and visitor space. Work is expected to start in 2028.
Detroit’s WNBA franchise will be the fifth professional team to play downtown – joining the city’s NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB teams.
Detroit Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield has named David Bowser as her Chief of Staff.
Bowser was her senior policy advisor during her campaign and is the director of her transition team.
Bowser served as deputy director of the Housing and Revitalization Department, deputy director of the Community Health Corps and director of Human Services in the for Mayor Mike Duggan.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan had an opportunity this weekend to say whether he thinks President Donald Trump’s threats of jailing and executing political opponents has gone too far.
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Let’s be very clear about this. If Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan runs for governor as an “independent,” it will hand the Republicans the governorship. Period. All you need is elementary school math to figure this out. At least 40% of the electorate will vote reflexively for any Republican. They could nominate a cardboard cut-out and […]
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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield will become the first woman mayor of the city after handily defeating Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. in Tuesday’s general election.
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Mayor Mike Duggan is scheduled to attend a high-dollar fundraiser in Detroit on Wednesday night hosted by a wealthy businessman who donated $100,000 to a Donald Trump political action committee and has been linked to multiple corruption scandals involving city contracts. The invitation-only event, billed as a “Special Friends and Family” gathering for Duggan’s gubernatorial […]
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Health care leaders and Democrats say Duggan is ignoring the reality of Trump’s legislation, which slashes $840 billion from Medicaid over the next decade
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