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Whitmer and Gilchrist: 'Bringing the 2024 NFL draft to Detroit is a huge win'

By David Beasley | Apr 6, 2022

It's official. Detroit will host the 2024 NFL Draft.

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Detroit mayor: Be sure to claim federal tax credits, 'We’re going to help if you need it'

By David Beasley | Mar 29, 2022

Mayor Mike Duggan (D-Detroit ) is urging citizens who qualify to make sure they claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit on their federal income tax returns.

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Gilchrist reads to 'bright young students' in Southfield in celebration of Reading Month

By David Beasley | Mar 28, 2022

In celebration of March as Reading Month, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist (D-Mich.) visited Adlai E. Stevenson Elementary School in Southfield in late March and read to students.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra provides music education for youth and 'new approaches to online learning'

By David Beasley | Mar 27, 2022

More than a half-century ago, the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra took the stage for the first time.

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Michigan honors employers for workplace safety efforts

By David Beasley | Mar 8, 2022

The state of Michigan has honored eight employers in the state for their efforts to make their worksite healthier.

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Trump campaign press secretary: Biden has 'very checkered past' on race

By David Beasley | Oct 14, 2020

President Donald Trump has accomplished more to help African Americans in 47 months than former Vice President Joe Biden did in 47 years in politics, Trump’s re-election campaign press secretary, Hogan Gidley, told the host of WJR's "The Frank Beckmann Show."

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Michigan not likely to be vulnerable in COVID-19 lawsuits, but nursing homes could be

By David Beasley | Oct 2, 2020

Michigan residents with relatives who have died from COVID-19 in nursing homes will be unlikely to prevail in lawsuits against the state, an attorney said on WJR's "The Frank Beckmann Show."