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Chase Cantrell, director of Building Community Value

Combating income inequality: 3 local, practical solutions to a national epidemic

Aaron Mondry Monday, December 05, 2016
Metro Detroit has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the nation, which is a huge problem for the region's future prosperity. But there are positive, incremental steps Metro Detroiters are taking in their communities that can make a real difference.
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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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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.
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.
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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. 
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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Rain gardens to the rescue: How Detroiters are working together to protect water infrastructure

Brian Allnutt Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Detroiters must deal with a new drainage fee to help pay for water infrastructure. Fortunately, an innovative program will help residents reduce those fees, while also soaking up water on their land and helping their neighbors.
CEO and co-founder of Castle, working at Rebirth House

"Generation Startup" shows it's possible to build and scale a startup in Detroit

Aaron Mondry Thursday, October 13, 2016
The documentary, which follows six people working or owning startups in Detroit, presents both the joys and challenges of running a startup. 
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As Ellis Island Tea grows, founder Nailah Ellis-Brown makes hiring local a priority

Patrick Dunn Thursday, October 13, 2016
Since founding the company in 2008, Ellis-Brown been named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in the manufacturing industry and her beverages are now available in Meijer and Whole Foods stores across the Midwest.
Shakiya Robertson with her kids, from left to right, Kye'Ren, Kyi'Lei, Davion, and Ky'Shaun in front of their home

In search of solutions to Detroit's foreclosure crisis

David Sands Thursday, October 13, 2016
In the second installment of our series on Detroit's foreclosure crisis, David Sands looks at the organizations and people developing innovative solutions to keep people in their homes. 
Frank McGhee, director of NSO YIP, mentoring a group of young Detroit men

Revisiting Osborn: What's happening with the stories, people we covered 3 years ago

MJ Galbraith Thursday, October 13, 2016
In 2013 Model D launched its first On the Ground series in Osborn. As Model D launches a new series in the Live6 neighborhood, we wanted to check in on some of the stories and people we covered.
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