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Detroit's urban farms embrace green infrastructure for sustainable water use

Brian Allnutt Monday, December 05, 2016
Detroit's urban farms are using green infrastructure to reduce their water costs. Along the way, they're helping to improve the city's stormwater system.
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Can Metro Detroit's municipalities cooperate?

Ellen Vial Monday, December 05, 2016
In the wake of a narrow defeat for regional transit, Ellen Vial explores how we might learn from regional cooperation in Pittsburgh and the Twin Cities.
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Food hubs are the future of Michigan's food economy

Zinta Aistars Monday, December 05, 2016
They help bring together farmers and consumers, make it easier to eat healthy food, in addition to a host of other benefits. 
Lucy Carnaghi, co-owner of Rose's Fine Foods

Higher wages and split tips: Working for fair pay in the Detroit service industry

Patrick Dunn Monday, December 05, 2016
The tipping system is the cheapest, easiest legal way for restaurateurs to maintain a staff, but it also has unfortunate side-effects for that same staff. Some in the service industry, however, are rethinking the tip. 
?Lucas, 13, getting his hair cut by Metro Detroit Barber College owner Raymond Ware

Metro Detroit Barber College is both bridge and sanctuary in a changing Detroit

Terryn Hall Monday, December 05, 2016
With so many changes happening in the city and Live6 area, Metro Detroit Barber College is a refuge of stability where people from the neighborhood and across the city can get a good cut at a low price with good company.
 
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How Detroit's public parks are using green infrastructure to prevent flooding, save money

Brian Allnutt Monday, December 05, 2016
Detroit's parks are testing grounds for new green infrastructure projects that are changing the way the city manages its stormwater runoff.
Lana Rodriguez, owner of Mama Coo's Boutique

Finding resources faster: Detroit's rich and expanding entrepreneurial ecosystem

Patrick Dunn Monday, November 07, 2016
There's an incredible number of resources available for a budding entrepreneur in Detroit. Patrick Dunn surveys our entrepreneurial ecosystem to find out where those resources are and how to access them. 
The Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, located on the far east side, is one of the areas most at risk for flooding and heat stress

How Detroit's climate change activists are using science to plan for a warmer city

Nina Ignaczak Monday, November 07, 2016
As Detroit's climate changes, scientists are working to inform policies that will help the city both mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions and increase its resiliency in the face of a warmer, wetter future.
Ron Gurdjian has tended bar at Tom's Tavern since "the late 70s"

In praise of the chill bar

Amy Elliott Bragg Monday, November 07, 2016
With the announcement of the closing of St. Cece's, a quintessentially chill bar, Amy Elliott Bragg makes a case for the chill bar and lists her favorites. 
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Two community benefits ordinances in Detroit set for ballot battle

Nina Ignaczak Monday, November 07, 2016
Two bills on this year's ballot could establish a community benefits ordinance in Detroit. Nina Ignaczak delves into what that might mean for the city and the differences between the two. 
Michigan Avenue bustling during Detroit Open Streets

Guest column: Open Streets Detroit proved the value of pedestrian zones

Jessica Meyer Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Open Streets Detroit closed 3.7 miles of road to vehicular traffic and opened it to people. Jessica Meyer recaps what took place during those two exciting days. 
Alexis El-Amin, owner of The Mason Jar: Get Holistically Healed, a food store at 4088 W. McNichols Road. El-Amin recently moved to Detroit from Wilmington, N.C. and opened her store not long after in the University District.

Photo essay: This is Live6

Bree Gant Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Photographer and Detroit-native Bree Gant captured some of the people and places that make Live6 unique.
KeShon Demps, owner of Ingrid's Bakery & Shon Benson's Candy Creations

Love on Livernois: What Sweetest Day looked like in Live6

Terryn Hall Tuesday, October 25, 2016
On October 15, lovers and those expressing affection across the Midwest celebrated Sweetest Day. On the Ground editor Terryn Hall checked out Live6 businesses to see how owners and patrons were marking the day. 
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3 regional transit systems Metro Detroit can learn from

Patrick Dunn Tuesday, October 25, 2016
We checked in with experts in three very different American cities—Cleveland, St. Louis, and Los Angeles—to gather lessons as our own transit system takes shape.
 
Karen Guilmette, owner of Natural Red, with three of her children

Detroit's mother entrepreneurs: these women started businesses and ended up with happy families

Melinda Clynes Tuesday, October 25, 2016
In the first of a three-part series looking at the challenges of being both a mother and entrepreneur, Melinda Clynes writes about women seeking financial independence in business.
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