Downriver Today

'Empower those who served:' Whitmer reveals $250,000 state grant for Michigan veterans

By Karen Kidd | May 30, 2022

A $250,000 state grant intended to match 225 veterans with apprenticeship programs in Michigan’s construction industry is a way to empower those veterans and get roads fixed.

Two Michigan Department of Health and Human Services leaders have resigned their posts

By Karen Kidd | Feb 26, 2021

After more than a decade of federal court oversight, things seem to be improving in the child protection wing of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), but two leaders who helped facilitate the improvement are now gone.

Unite Our Nation organizer says he hopes prayer event will help 'heal our nation'

By Karen Kidd | Oct 7, 2020

Local organizers of a public procession and prayer event in Canton this weekend don't know how many participants to expect.

Metro Detroit recreational marijuana shops thin on the ground, Free Press reports

By Karen Kidd | Jan 17, 2020

As legal recreational weed sales in Michigan exceeded more than $10 million its first six weeks, Detroit residents 21 years and older have had a difficult time finding a dispensary where they can line up to make a purchase, a city newspaper reported.

From Capitol News

'They didn't say it': crowd fails to respond with Tlaib impeachment pejorative directed at Trump at rally

By Karen Kidd | 5 years ago

Freshman U.S. House Rep. Rashida Harbi Tlaib is trying to make profane language directed at President Donald Trump into a slogan for her 2020 re-election campaign but recently found that at least some of her supporters haven't gotten the memo.