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"Let's go to a concert and see men make music." That's long been the subtext, from Bach to rock. Despite gender inclusion in other area, women struggle to break into musical careers.
Among local music groups reviving schedules canceled during the COVID-19 crisis is the Warren Symphony Orchestra ― formerly the Motor City Orchestra ― marking 50 years after its founding.
On Sunday, the group has its first normal concert in 2 1/2 years. That's normal as in not wearing masks and not sitting six feet apart, roadblocks to playing their best.
With an all-American play list, the concert honors Friday’s observance of Veterans Day; admission is free to veterans and their families. Without saying so, it also will sound a note of all-American diversity, thanks to who's on the podium: a female conductor. Only a fraction of professional orchestras like this are led by women.
Men conduct 85% of the nation’s professional orchestras; and women hold an even smaller share of the roughly 100 top conductor posts nationwide, according to the League of American Orchestras. The gender divide is just as rigid elsewhere in music. Compare that to the rest of American culture: Gender inclusion has a big head of steam. Women are starring in action films, filling the nonprofit sector, outnumbering men in law and medical schools, and cracking if not shattering the glass ceiling in politics.
Increasingly, surveys show that most male privilege is relegated to shrouded domains, such as corporate boards and the hidden hierarchies of religion. Yet, in one of society's most public domains, professional music-making of all kinds remains a bastion of male dominance. As of 2020, only 69 of the 888 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been women — just 7.7% over 35 years, according to the website of Vice Media Group. Women may become top vocalists or virtuoso soloists of world renown. Still, far fewer women make a living strumming guitars, thumping drums or raising batons to lead professional orchestras.
From rock stages and country music bars to classical music halls, women watch but they don’t perform. Rock and rap music notoriously takes their sexism well beyond exclusion, not only keeping women off stages except as occasional dancing sex objects; they also keep women in their place with a long history of demeaning, often misogynistic lyrics — "Under My Thumb" according to the title song of one of the Rolling Stones biggest hits.
Last week, conductor Gina Provenzano lifted her baton and the sounds of the Warren Symphony Orchestra filled the auditorium of Warren Woods Middle School. The program was a warm-up for the players’ public concert, which is 3 p.m. Sunday at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township. The warm-up gave kids in school bands a chance to hear, and see, their instruments in the hands of pros. Hearing famous movie themes played live was a rare opportunity for these schoolkids. What also was rare was seeing Provenzano doing a job that audiences almost always see done by a man. Her role modeling might have been as important as the music to these youngsters, she said, as the audience filed out.
“One of our board members heard a little girl say, ‘She was a lady. I could do that some day!’ That’s exactly what I like to hear,” Provenzano said. Things were different for her, she said. In conducting classes at the University of Michigan years ago, she was taught to conduct only as preparation for leading groups as an elementary school music teacher.“I’m almost angry about it. They never talked about women being able to conduct professionally,” she said.
For years she was indeed relegated to teaching music, but slowly her ambition to conduct grew. She found male mentors willing to coach her, spent a stint leading a youth orchestra in Maine, then moved back to Michigan with her husband and children, taking a job as the conductor of the Midland Community Orchestra.
“They’re not paid, although I was,” Provenzano said. The Warren group’s board hired her six years ago. Audiences are still getting used to her.
“After a concert, people will come by – ‘Oh, your suit is lovely’ or ‘You should do something different with your hair.’ I don’t think in a million years people would comment on a male conductor’s appearance,” Provenzano said.“It’s odd because you’re not doing anything inherently masculine. It’s gender neutral,” she said.
Likewise, there’s nothing inherently mannish about strumming electric guitars or banging on drums except that the culture has made it so. But it’s a man’s world for anyone playing on concert tours or the bar circuit, said Amanda LeClair, a co-host of the music-based “Culture Shift” show on WDET-FM in Detroit.
“You’re up against this incredible gate-keeping by male musicians,” LeClair said. For women who dare to step up to play an instrument, and not merely sing to front male players, there’s a high standard waiting that has nothing to do with music.
“You not only have to play your instrument well but you also have to look good,” she said. Even if you are a “looker,” the stress of fending off male sniping takes a toll. “Think about Meg White. She played drums with one of the biggest bands in the country (White Stripes), and she just got ripped apart by men in the media and online for her playing,” LeClair said. White quit the Detroit-based duo because of “acute anxiety,” according to multiple online celebrity sites, including TheList.com.
Women are known to face safety risks, including potential sexual assault, in fields of sports and performing arts dominated by male authority figures – from gymnastics and ballet to music, especially in the rock-pop-country-jazz music scenes, where big egos typically mix with late-night performances and substance abuse.
Last week at the middle school in Warren, as student stagehands carted off music stands, Terence Farmer of Ann Arbor packed up his kettledrums, a.k.a. tympani, and mused about performing to a woman's direction.
Farmer's view was informed by 44 years of striking drum heads stretched over big copper bowls, in precise cadence to the rise and fall of a conductor's baton.
He smiled wistfully, then said having a woman set the pace "puts a different flavor on things, but it's definitely not a bad flavor."
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Warren Symphony Orchestra conductor Gina Provenzano is rarity in music
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Just when it looked darkest for Michigan State women’s soccer, making its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2009, the Spartans turned to a sister act to top Milwaukee, 3-2, in the first round on Friday night in East Lansing.
After giving up a goal early, the Spartans stormed back with second-half goals by sisters Celia and Justina Gaynor, followed by a goal by Camryn Evans in overtime to pick up the program’s first NCAA win since 2008 (also against Milwaukee). MSU, the No. 4 seed in the Notre Dame region, will face Friday’s winner between No. 5 seed TCU and UTSA on Sunday for a spot in the Round of 16. Friday’s win was just the third ever in the NCAA tournament for the Spartans (17-3-2), who will continue a dream season that saw them go undefeated in Big Ten play for the first time.
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But it wasn’t easy for MSU, facing a Milwaukee squad coming off back-to-back second-round NCAA tourney appearances.
The Spartans appeared to have it won until the 90th minute, when Milwaukee’s Lainey Higgins fired a free kick toward the net with 20 seconds remaining. Kayla Rollins, from Ann Arbor, leapt and spun to get a foot on the ball, sending it to the right side of the goal, past MSU goalie Lauren Kozal to send the match to overtime.
It was the second assist of the game for Higgins. In the sixth minute, she threaded a pass to Natalie Auble entering the top of the penalty box. Behind the defense, Auble juked out MSU goalie Lauren Kozal and tapped the ball into the net with her right foot for a quick 1-0 lead.
Despite the goal, Michigan State dominated the first half; the Spartans outshot the Panthers, 16-2, and had seven shots on goal to Milwaukee’s 1. But still, MSU trailed.
The second half was a different story. The Spartans rallied in the 56th minute as Justina Gaynor took her defender from the left side of the box to the center and fired a right-footed bouncer to the right side past Milwaukee goalie Kendall Edwards to even the score.
Nearly 22 minutes later, it was older sister Celia Gaynor’s turn. In the 77th minute, the former transfer from Butler buried a shot in the bottom center of the net to give the Spartans a 2-1 lead. That would be it for the Spartans until the second half of overtime.
That was when Evans took a assist from Lauren DeBeau and Jordyn Wickes in the 105th minute and buried it for the winning goal, and her seventh of the year.
Michigan State peppered the Milwakee defense throughout regulation, firing off 24 shots, with 12 on net; Edwards had 10 saves. The Panthers, meanwhile, had just six shots, and only three on net. MSU had six corner kicks — three in each half — while Milwaukee had none. It was more of the same in overtime, as MSU had six shots, three on net, while Milwaukee was blanked.
The Spartans have never advanced past the second round, losing to Notre Dame twice: 3-0 in 2005 and 1-0 in 2008. They could face the Fighting Irish again, if both teams continue to win, in the third round next weekend.
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Otherwise, it was a showdown between two featured backs, Hodges and Dakota’s Joe Cacevic, who each scored three times in the back-and-forth battle.
Both teams sported strong defenses, and it was a couple of tackles for losses on consecutive plays by Chase Parker and Rasean Randall that stalled a Dakota drive and gave the ball back to Cass Tech to set up with game-winning drive.
Cass Tech (9-3) advances to the Division 1 semifinals next weekend, against the winner of Saturday’s Novi Detroit Catholic Central-Belleville game. Despite being one of the state’s most successful programs in recent years, Dakota (11-1) hasn’t reached the state semifinal since its 2007 championship season.
Dakota answered with a five-play scoring drive covering 76 yards. Joe Cacevic ran for an 8-yard touchdown on a sweep to the right. Cacevic set up the first-and-goal situation on the prior play by hitting a seam and bursting loose for a 58-yard gain.
Cass Tech got into the red zone on their next two possessions but big plays by the Dakota defense caused them to come up empty. On the first drive, but Jacob Leija picked off a would-be touchdown pass by stepping in front of Technicians receiver Kareen Sadler at the 1-yard-line. On the next drive, a screen pass from Mumpfield to Rasean Randall put the ball at the Dakota 9, but it was moved back to the 24 by a personal foul call. Cass lined up for a 41-yard field goal attempt, and faked the kick as Mumpfield threw a pass to Randall, but Alan Browning dropped him at the 21.
Aside from a couple of quarterback scrambles by Hamby, Cacevic had every first-half carry for the Cougars, and he had 110 yards by the break.
Cass Tech got the ball to begin the second half, and tied the game at 14 on a 13-yard run by Hodges, who charged through a hole opened by the interior linemen, cut left, and had a clear path to the end zone.
But Dakota took a 21-14 lead on the ensuing possession. Cacevic, who carried the ball on all but one of the seven plays, bounced off a wall of would-be tacklers and found daylight around the left side, scoring from the 5.
Cass Tech equaled the score with 9:09 to play on another run by Hodges, who was untouched taking the ball in from the 7. Cass had four consecutive first downs on the drive, one of which came on a face mask personal foul against the Cougars.
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MHSAA football playoffs: Detroit Cass Tech tops Macomb Dakota, 35-21
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There were more than a few anxious moments for defending Division 3 football champion Detroit King in Friday’s Region 4 championship final.
But the host Crusaders rode the legs of running back Sterling Anderson Jr., and quarterback Dante Moore made some clutch plays to subdue Birmingham Brother Rice with a pair of fourth quarter scores, 22-12, to advance to the state semifinals.
Moore’s 38-yard touchdown run with only 2:34 remaining sealed the victory for the Crusaders (8-3). Rice was unable to generate much offense after quarterback Blake Marrogy went down late in the third quarter with an injury and never returned.
Leading 9-6 at the half, Rice (5-6) consumed 10:08 of the clock to start the third quarter with a 16-play drive resulting in an Owen Pardi 27-yard field goal to put the Warriors up 12-6 with 1:48 remaining. The time-consuming drive was also helped by a roughing the punter penalty against King.
But King took the lead with 11:14 on a 10-yard pass from Moore to Anderson and the Crusaders converted the two-point conversion on a run by the Oregon commit to go up 15-12. Two costly Rice penalties — a holding and pass interference call — helped catapult the Crusaders to the game-winning score.
The speedy 5-foot-8, 165-pound Anderson finished the game with 113 yards rushing on 15 carries, while Moore was stymied by Rice’s defense in the passing game going 8 of 15 for 54 yards, but added 53 on the ground.
Marrogy, a junior, had 68 yards rushing on 17 carries before leaving the game.
It was a defensive struggle for much of the first half until Rice capitalized on a King turnover when Ben Eck caused and recovered a fumble at the King 36 after jarring the ball loose from Jameel Croft Jr. with 7:41 left.
Maryland commit Nolan Ray, who had missed a majority of the season with injury issues on both knees, scored on a 31-yard TD run. But the Warriors missed the point-after to lead 6-0 with 6:03 remaining in the half. (Ray finished with 70 yards on 11 carries.)
The Warriors then returned the favor with a turnover when Daion Johnson pounced on a fumbled punt return by Sam Klein and recovered it at the Rice 27. Three plays later Anderson scored on a 11-yard TD run and Terrence Moore converted the PAT to put the Crusaders ahead, 7-6.
The Warriors then got a clutch 12-yard first down run on fourth-and-8 by Marrogy with only four seconds remaining in the first half to the King 16 and Owen Pardi, who missed the point-after earlier, converted on a 33-yard field goal to end the half giving Rice a 9-6 advantage.
King had a chance to score on its opening drive of the game after a 38-yard run by Anderson putting the ball on the Rice 23, but the Crusaders turned it over on downs.
Rice held the edge in total first-half yardage, 114-113, as Ray had 57 yards on five carries, while Moore was limited to 5 of 11 passing for 29 yards.
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MHSAA football playoffs: Detroit King runs by Brother Rice late, 22-12
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Without Cade Cunningham, the Detroit Pistons were at a disadvantage against the New York Knicks on Friday. But despite trailing by 17 with 4:40 to play in the third quarter, the game nearly went down the wire.
The Pistons outscored the Knicks, 32-27, in the final period and cut the deficit to four, 114-110, with 1:20 remaining after a pair of free throws by Bojan Bogdanovic. But a late 3-pointer by Immanuel Quickley ended any hopes of a comeback win, as the Pistons fell to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, 121-112.
RJ Barrett (30 points), Jalen Brunson (26 points, seven assists) and Julius Randle (21 points) carried New York to victory. Bogdanovic led the Pistons with 25 points, and Alec Burks added 17 points off of the bench in his season debut. Isaiah Stewart had 13 points, eight rebounds and two blocks, Hamidou Diallo had 13 points, and Killian Hayes finished with 11 points, seven assists, six rebounds and four steals.
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Cunningham missed his first game of the season with left shin soreness, and it’s unclear if he’ll return for Saturday night's home game against the Boston Celtics. The Pistons shot just 22.6% from 3 (7-for-31) and 75.6% (31-for-41) at the free-throw line. A bright spot was Detroit’s bench, which scored a season-high 53 points.
Burks lifts second unit in season debut
The Pistons needed Burks. The veteran sharpshooter missed all of training camp, preseason and Detroit’s first 12 games while recovering from a left navicular fracture. A career 10.6 points per game scorer and 38% outside shooter, Burks was primed to give the Pistons’ struggling second unit (25.1 points per game, 29th in the NBA) a boost when he returned.
He did just that on Friday, scoring 10 points in the first half. His first bucket was a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer with 5.4 seconds left at the end of the first quarter that cut Detroit’s deficit to two, and he added a short midrange jumper and five made free throws in the second quarter.
Toward the beginning of the fourth quarter, he finished a floater through contact to bring the Pistons within 10 points. On a night where the Pistons simply couldn’t hit enough shots, he did his part to keep them within striking distance. And he had significant help, as he, Hayes, Isaiah Livers and Hamidou Diallo combined for 52 of the bench’s 53 points.
Livers found his groove in the fourth quarter, scoring all 11 of his points in the period while knocking down 3 of 4 3-point attempts. Dwane Casey trusted his bench in the fourth quarter, as Hayes and Livers played the entire period and Burks finished the period.
Hayes steps up with Cunningham out
The extent that Cunningham’s sore left shin bothered him during his four-point, 1-for-11 overall shooting performance against the Celtics on Wednesday isn’t known. But the Pistons decided to hold him out of Friday’s game against the Knicks, marking the first time this season he’s missed a game.
Cory Joseph replaced Cunningham in the starting lineup, but he didn’t play much because of foul trouble. He picked up two in the first 63 seconds of the game, leading to an early appearance for Hayes. Joseph got his third foul 11 seconds after checking in midway through the second quarter, and his fourth foul toward the beginning of the fourth quarter after closing out too hard on a Brunson 3-pointer.
It created plenty of opportunity for Hayes, who was aggressive once again after scoring a season-high 16 points on Wednesday. He scored all 11 of his points in the first half, but helped Detroit’s late rally with four fourth-quarter assists.
The third-year guard appears to have hit some momentum after an ice-cold start to the season, tallying 27 points in his last two games after scoring 32 in his first 11.
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Detroit Pistons, minus Cade Cunningham, fall at Knicks, 121-112
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It was the look on the OB technician’s face that first told me something was wrong. As I laid on the exam table, holding my husband’s hand, watching our hoped-for first child squirm around on the black-and-white screen, I saw the tech’s brow furrow.
“What’s wrong?” I asked her. She didn’t answer, instead, she shut off the ultrasound, and took us to “the other room.”
My husband and I left the hospital that day in a daze. We called our family and consulted with our pastor. I will always remember my pastor at the time saying, “Hillary, you can still claim your salvation if you choose to not continue this pregnancy.” I was almost 30 years old, and I had never heard a Christian express that kind of a view on reproductive choice.
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Hillary Scholten is a former Department of Justice attorney and an Evangelical Christian. On Tuesday she was elected to represent Michigan's 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
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Opinion: Choice gives women right to choose life, too
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Game 14: Detroit Pistons (3-10) vs. Boston Celtics (9-3)
Game notes: After focusing on improving their 3-point shooting in the offseason, it has been another rough start from beyond the arc for the Pistons, whose 32.7% ranks 26th of 30 teams after Friday’s action. That was highlighted by Friday’s loss in New York, in which the Pistons shot 7-for-31 from outside. Even Bojan Bogdanovic, who had an otherwise solid night with 25 points in 34 minutes, couldn’t hit his 3s; he went 0-for-5 against the Knicks.
On the other end of the spectrum are the Celtics, who are third in the league in hitting 38.8% en route to an 9-3 record that’s second-best in the Eastern Conference. So much for stumbles under interim coach Joe Mazzulla (a former assistant who stepped in when Ime Udoka was suspended by the team for the season for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a team employee).
Jayson Tatum appears to be taking the next step this season, as he’s averaging 31.4 points and seven rebounds a game. That includes a stretch of three straight games with at least 30 points — he had 34 against the Nuggets on Friday — and seven games of at least 30 this season.
After Saturday’s matchup, the Pistons welcome the Toronto Raptors to LCA on Monday before starting a six-game Western Conference swing. The Celtics, meanwhile, will head home to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday.
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WeRun313 co-founder Lance Woods (Bib 409) runs the 10 mile Growler Gallop on Sept. 25, 2022 which started and finished at the Atwater Brewery in Detroit. To the left of Woods is Justin Craig (Bib 451) the co-owner of RUNdetroit. The 34-year-old Woods finished fifth overall (1:00:43.5) and first in his age group, as he averaged 6:04 per mile. Provided by WeRun313
When native Detroiter Lance Woods started running, he could barely complete one full mile. That was in 2015. Today’s version of Woods is capable of going 26.2 miles in a single run and he can cover the distance swiftly, too, as he demonstrated at the Oct. 9 Chicago Marathon, which he completed in a personal best time of 2 hours, 47 minutes and 15 seconds.
Woods’ performance in Chicago, followed his run at this year’s Boston Marathon on April 18, which he completed in 2:54:44. The marathon times describe an individual who has rapidly grown as a runner and as an athlete. Nonetheless, on a recent Monday morning, Woods did not want to talk about individual achievements. Instead, he proudly spoke about the ever-growing story of WeRun313, which he co-founded on May 4, 2019, with Joe Robinson. Citing data provided by Strava, an internet service which collects information relating to physical exercise, Woods reports that WeRun313, with more than 2,300 members, is “the largest and fastest growing run club in the state.”
But before the 34-year-old Woods became fluent in running and fitness lingo, and long before he was befriended by members of the District Running Collective, a predominantly African American running group in Washington D.C. that gave Woods a "blueprint" for launching WeRun313 with Robinson, Woods grew up on Detroit’s west side. During that time, he attended Parker Elementary School, Sherrill Elementary-Middle School and Northwestern High School. Following his graduation from Northwestern, the scholarship committee at the Coleman A. Young Foundation felt strongly enough about Woods’ potential and character to award him a scholarship to Tennessee State University. And when Woods explains receiving that scholarship to the Historically Black University in Nashville, the reason why he is so passionate about bringing people together to run specifically in Detroit can also be understood.
WeRun313 co-founder Lance Woods proudly represented his running club and the city of Detroit on Oct. 9, 2022 at the Chicago Marathon, which he completed in 2 hours, 47 minutes and 15 seconds. Provided by WeRun313
“The community plays an important role in the success of its people and that really clicked with me after receiving the scholarship from the Coleman A. Young Foundation,” said Woods, who in 2012 earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration, e-business and supply chain management from Tennessee State. “WeRun313 is community based and no one is left behind. We’re a social running club and the building of the community is what keeps us together. And we can do this through running because running strips down social barriers. It doesn’t matter where you work, or what your income is, or what race you are, or how old you are. The running brings us all together, to Detroit spaces, where we run and sweat, but then after we come together, we build.”
During the 45th running of the Detroit Free Press Marathon, which included two days (Oct. 15-16) of events, a very visible sample of what WeRun313 has built was on display as more than 70 members participated in a variety of events, including the 1-mile competitive run, 5K, half marathon and full marathon. There also was a spirited cheering section of more than 25 WeRun313 members at mile 18 within the Dequindre Cut on the marathon course, which provided encouragement to all runners that reached that point on marathon day. More than a “bucket list” check-off point, members of WeRun313 that participated during the Free Press Marathon weekend said what they accomplished will have a lasting impact on their lives, including how they connect with their community.
Colby White: ‘Breaking out of my shell changed my life forever’
It took 29-year-old Colby White just about four hours exactly to complete the Free Press marathon on Oct. 16 — his first marathon. White, says his performance, and just being a part of the marathon period, would never have occurred if not for WeRun313. But he confessed that it took him much longer than the time he spent on the marathon course to come forward and join, despite the fact that he enjoyed running as a youth.
WeRun313 co-founder Lance Woods (left) and others cheer on Colby White, of Novi (Bib Number 6086) as White runs through the Dequindre Cut around the 18-mile mark of the Detroit Free Press Marathon on Oct. 16th, 2022. Meredith Bieber, WeRun313
“During the pandemic, in May or June 2020, the world stopped and I had nothing but time,” White, who is a computer engineer, said. “I stumbled on a solid group of runners online (Instagram) and they were urban Detroiters, with faces like mine, and they had come together in the city as one. But because of the introvert that I am, I didn’t join right away. It was something that I wanted to do, but I had to get over that fear of the unknown.”
White did not come out for a WeRun313 group run until October 2020. But when he did, his fear was replaced by something that remains with him to this day.
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“When I met Lance, he welcomed me like he had known me for years,” White recalled. “He welcomed me like a brother, and he gives that vibe to everyone he meets. And there were others in the group that greeted me the same way. In the group, people have gone from being an acquaintance, to my running friend, to family; that’s just how I feel about them.
“For me, breaking out of my shell changed my life forever, from the moment I joined the group. I run for my family. I run for myself. And most importantly, I run for my mental health.”
Clint Jackson: ‘The mental benefits of running are tremendous’
Like White, 33-year-old Clint Jackson felt a connection to WeRun313 the first time he saw the group in mass, but his initial sighting did not come over a device screen.
WeRun313 co-founder Lance Woods showers Clint Jackson of Detroit (Bib Number 5174) with confetti, as Jackson runs through the Dequindre Cut around the 18-mile mark of the Detroit Free Press Marathon on Oct. 16, 2022. Meredith Bieber, WeRun313
“It was August of 2019, it was a warm day out, and I was driving south on Woodward towards downtown,” recalled Jackson, who navigated that same area of pavement on foot while running his first marathon on Oct. 16, which he completed in an impressive 3:23:02. “Running a marathon was on my bucket list, but I never knew where to begin, so when I saw the group the first time I said ‘here it is.’ ”
Jackson revealed that he did bring some athletic genes to the sport of distance running given that his uncle, Michael Jackson, was a standout point guard for the University of Detroit Mercy during the early to mid-1990s. On Wednesday, while recalling the games he attended at UDM’s fabled Calihan Hall during his uncle’s playing days, Clint Jackson also named the schools he attended growing up on Detroit’s northwest side, including Thurgood Marshall Elementary, Post Middle School and Mumford High School. When asked the year that he graduated from Mumford, Clint Jackson said people are often surprised to find out that he was not a member of any Mumford graduating class because he dropped out. He later remedied that by earning his GED, and he pointed to running and his WeRun313 family as reasons why his ability to accomplish goals is now a strength for him.
“The mental benefits of running are tremendous,” stated Clint Jackson, who today has a career in logistics operations and also regards himself as a “more caring person” due to his running experiences. “This first full marathon will always be very special to me. I’m happy with myself for making a plan and following through and this just teaches you that anything we put our mind to we’re capable of doing. That’s why I thank Joe and Lance all the time. I tell them that this is incredible work they’re doing and please don’t stop.”
Aaron Morton: ‘A system of good habits’ goes a long way
After almost exactly two hours and four minutes on this year’s Free Press marathon course, 29-year-old Aaron Morton had completed the International Half Marathon. And his time was just about what he predicted for himself. But it was another number that the WeRun313 member saw after the race, which excited him more.
WeRun313 member Aaron Morton, of Detroit proudly holds up his medal after completing his first international half for the 45th annual Detroit Free Press marathon on Oct. 16, 2022. Provided by WeRun313
“One hundred, ninety-nine pounds,” I saw that number on the scale after the race,” said Morton, a Wayne State University police officer, who lost in the neighborhood of 50 pounds through training and completing his first International Half Marathon.
Morton admitted that he now takes more pride in dressing and wearing his officer’s uniform, but more than that, he likes what his new look has done for other people.
“People have come up to me and said, ‘you look great’ and ‘you’re doing great,’ '' said Morton, who proudly called out Linwood-Chicago to identify the Detroit neighborhood that nurtured him growing up and still strengthens him today. “I like being a lighthouse for other people.”
Morton, who admitted there was a time when he “hated” running, credits his transformation to the adoption of “a system of good habits,” which being a part of WeRun313 inspired him to do.
“I’ve seen the group uplift my life, and I’ve seen what it has done for others,” Morton said. “No human is limited; that’s the building block for the club.”
True to WeRun313’s shared no-limits mindset, Morton expressed on Election Day that he hopes there will come a time when Detroiters are voting for him–for mayor. And he appears to have his campaign slogan already prepared.
Morton said: “I want to help people have exactly what they need, plus a little more.”
Mission: For runners of all levels, ages and ethnicities, WeRun313 was founded on May 4, 2019 to connect like-minded individuals through running, while helping to build a healthier and more prosperous community.
Founders: Lance Woods and Joe Robinson
Slogan: Connect. Run. Build.
Group Runs: Two Mile Tuesday, 6 p.m. starting from Yum Village (6500 Woodward Ave.); 5 and 10K Thursday, 6:30 p.m. starting from Robert C. Valade Park (2670 Atwater); Long Runs on Sundays at various locations.
For more information: Please visit werun313.com. Additional information also can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Strava @WeRun313
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It’s a frigid morning, the first after a week of welcomed warmth, and NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson is loading turkeys and toys into car trunks at a Detroit church.
Hundreds of cars lined the parking lot of Second Ebenezer Church on Saturday morning, waiting to be loaded up with nearly 50 pounds of goods including non-perishable foods, personal care items, children’s books, turkeys and hams. The giveaway, hosted by General Motors and Johnson, is part of Johnson’s Holiday Hope program now in its eighth year.
A starstruck female driver parks her car at the head of the line, the trunk open and ready to be loaded up by Johnson, and rolls down her window, “You’re here!”
“I told y'all I’d be here, baby,” responds Johnson, who hails from Lansing.
For two hours, the parking lot falls into a rhythm of volunteers calling out for items, the sounds of trunks slamming shut, and “God bless you.” Drivers look at Johnson in awe and disbelief as he waves them along the assembly line and touches the same car seats and handles they touch on a daily basis.
“Everybody should be able to enjoy the holidays, to be able to feed their families and sometimes because it is tough, we want to step in and make sure that they can have a good Thanksgiving and hopefully as well as Christmas,” Johnson said. “A lot of times it's not even their fault that they're hurting, so we just want to make sure that we bless families at this time of need. And my heart feels so good to be home.”
Need is especially dire this year, said Bishop Edgar Vann, as families are struggling to stay afloat amid increasing food costs and stagnant wages. The Second Ebenezer Church facilitated the distribution of vouchers for Saturday’s drive that helped organizers prepare for the flood of responses.
“Inflation is at unprecedented levels, families are hurting, things are unstable,” Vann said. “People don't know what's going to happen next for many of them. And so families are often left in an area sort of in the lurch a bit, and so we think we're filling in a very important and significant gap.”
Inflation concerns were critical in the recent election season — with gas and grocery bills soaring — and now heading into the holiday season, families are feeling strained. Johnson said he hopes the volume of Saturday’s distribution will last families into Thanksgiving and through Christmas.
Michelee Taylor, 62, is a guardian to five of her grandchildren, she was in tears after pulling away from the distribution assembly line. After her daughter’s death, she’s done everything within her power to keep her grandchildren from becoming wards of the state and give them a stable household.
“I’m doing the best I can, I greatly appreciate it,” she said. “It’s just beautiful, people getting together and doing stuff for people like me. I can put the sadness behind me.”
She said she told her teenage grandson to wait for her at the door, and was excited to show them what she got.
“All I want them (her grandchildren) to do is be happy, just be happy,” she said. “We’ll make do with what we got.”
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Magic Johnson hosts food drive for hundreds of Detroit families
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In July 2017, the Detroit Tigers traded slugger J.D. Martinez, a two-month rental, to the Arizona Diamondbacks for then-prospects Dawel Lugo, Sergio Alcántara and Jose King.
Those three players combined to play 123 games and were worth minus-1.1 fWAR for the Tigers in the big leagues. The last remaining member of the Martinez trade has departed from the Tigers' organization: King became a minor-league free agent Thursday with 24 other players.
King, an infielder who turns 24 in January, spent nearly the entire 2022 season with High-A West Michigan. He batted .244 with a .279 on-base percentage and four home runs in 59 games.
ROSTER CHANGES:Tigers outfielder Victor Reyes among six players cut from 40-man roster
VERLANDER TRADE:Tigers' Daz Cameron, from 2017 Justin Verlander trade, claimed off waivers by Orioles
Here's the full list of minors free agents: right-handed pitchers Bryan Garcia, Zac Houston, Elvin Rodríguez, Bubba Derby, Gerson Moreno, Markus Solbach, Cody Sedlock, J.T. Hintzen, Luis Castillo, Shea Spitzbarth, Nick Vincent, Nolan Blackwood, Joe Navilhon, Daniel Ponce de Leon and Tim Holdgrafer; left-handed pitchers Sam Howard and Luis Camilo; catchers Fraudy Rodriguez, Michael De La Cruz and Chris Rabago; infielders King, Josh Lester, Jermaine Palacios Palacios and Jamie Westbrook; and outfielder Victor Reyes.
Aside from Reyes, the most notable minor-league free agent is Garcia. He pitched 76 games for the Tigers over parts of four seasons, serving as the closer in the 2020 season. The 27-year-old logged a 7.55 ERA in 2021 and seemed unlikely to return to the big leagues with the Tigers.
In 2022, however, the Tigers needed a starting pitcher at the end of the season due to several injuries to members of the rotation. Garcia, who reinvented himself as a starter in the middle of the season, stepped up and started four games, with a 3.54 ERA, 10 walks and 17 strikeouts in 20⅓ innings.
Rodríguez pitched seven games (five starts) for the Tigers last season, posting a 10.62 ERA with 15 walks and 25 strikeouts in 29⅔ innings. The 24-year-old had a 4.98 ERA with 36 walks and 91 strikeouts in 99⅓ innings for Triple-A Toledo.
Castillo, 27, also pitched in the majors. He tossed 3⅔ scoreless innings with four strikeouts in three relief appearances.
ADDING IN OCTOBER:Tigers claim utility player Jermaine Palacios, cut righty Drew Hutchison
Palacios, a multi-positional infielder, played 30 games for the Minnesota Twins last season, hitting .143 with two home runs, four walks and 27 strikeouts. The Tigers claimed the 26-year-old off waivers from the Twins in October.
The Tigers removed Reyes from the 40-man roster Thursday. He rejected an outright assignment to Triple-A Toledo, thus becoming a free agent. The 28-year-old hit .264 with 49 walks and 287 strikeouts over 394 games in parts of five MLB seasons.
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Tigers' Bryan Garcia, Elvin Rodríguez among minor-league free agents
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Ferris State 40, Wayne State 14: The visiting Bulldogs, No. 2 in Region 3, amassed 545 yards of total offense, thanks to 189 yards rushing and three touchdowns from quarterback Carson Gulker. He also was 9-for-17 passing for 197 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Ferris State (9-1, 5-1) was 8 of 13 on third downs while Wayne State (1-9, 0-6) was 1 of 14. Myren Harris had 39 yards rushing and a touchdowns for the Warriors.
Northern Michigan 33, Lake Erie 11: Zach Keen was 15-for-24 passing for 260 yards and three touchdowns for the visiting Wildcats (4-7), who shook off 13 penalties for 97 yards. Tyshon King added 21 carries for 124 yards and a TD. Xeavier Bullock had 50 yards rushing and a touchdown for Lake Erie (3-8).
Saginaw Valley State 35, Michigan Tech 30: Andrew Brito was 27-for-36 for 324 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions for the host Cardinals (8-3, 3-3). Derrick Hinton Jr. had 13 catches for 203 yards and that one touchdowns. Tyler Amos added 39 yards rushing and two touchdowns. Will Ark was 27-for-41 for 353 yards passing and three touchdowns and a pick for Michigan Tech (4-7, 2-4). Darius Willis had 198 yards of that passing on 13 catches and two of those scores.
Alma 34, Albion 31: Carter St. John’s 26-yard pass to Cole Thomas early in the fourth quarter locked up the MIAA title for the Scots (10-0, 6-0) at home as they handed the Britons their first loss of the season. Albion (9-1, 5-1) took a 21-14 lead into the half, thanks to a trio of TD passes from Luke Lovell (two of which went to Brendan Teal), but Alma scored twice in the first 5:31 of the second half to take the lead. St. John connected with Ja’Martae Hogan for a 34-yard score 2:18 after the half, then found Ty Lotterman for a 41-yard score a little over three minutes later. St. John finished 22-for-33 for 298 yards and four TDs and added 10 rushes for 32 yards. Eddie Williams boosted the Scots’ offense with 31 carries for 105 yards and a TD. Lovell completed 30 of 40 passes for 370 yards and four TDs for the Britons, but also gave the Scots the ball three times on interceptions. Teal caught eight passes from Lovell for 148 yards. As MIAA champs, the Scots are assured of a berth in the 32-team NCAA playoffs, with the field announced at 5 p.m. Sunday. The Britons have a shot at the tournament as an at-large squad, too; they entered Saturday as the No. 2 team in Region IV, ahead of the Scots.
Adrian 28, Olivet 0: The host Bulldogs (6-4, 3-3 MIAA) kept the ball on the ground to hand the Comets (5-5, 1-5) their fifth straight loss. Quarterback Aaron Jenkins needed just 14 carries to pick up 124 yards on the ground, with three rushing TDs. In all, Adrian outrushed Olivet, 276-79, and held the ball for 36:38. Jenkins completed six of 10 passes for 91 yards. Evan Ormsby went 15-for-26 passing for 137 yards and two interceptions for the Comets.
Trine 42, Kalamazoo 19: Alex Price had two TD passes and Dominic Crowder unleashed a 99-yard run as the visiting Thunder (7-3, 3-3) built a 35-0 halftime lead. The Hornets scored 19 points in the final 10 minutes to make the score respectable, led by quarterback Josh Nichols, who went 15-for-34 for 107 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Dawson Skupin came in for Nichols and went 6-for-14 for 105 yards and a touchdown for Kalamazoo.
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State football roundup: Grand Valley wins GLIAC, Alma carries MIAA
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Another week, another Michigan football beatdown of a lesser opponent.
The only difference Saturday was the Wolverines didn't wait until the second half to get going.
Michigan (10-0) wasn't perfect in the first half, punting twice and handling the clock in a strange fashion at the end of the second quarter, but went into the break up by two touchdowns — their largest halftime lead in Big Ten play — and never looked back, steamrolling Nebraska, 34-3.
It's the first time the Wolverines started a season 10-0 since 2006.
For the seventh consecutive game, Blake Corum had more than 100 yards on the ground (he had 103 by halftime) and a score, this time he racked up 162 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries.
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J.J. McCarthy was far from his best, he connected on just two of his first seven attempts and finished the day 8-for-17 but did have a touchdown to Ronnie Bell midway through the second quarter, a rushing score late in the third and one final touchdown in the fourth — a 29-yard pass
Michigan's defense dominated once again, which was the expectation coming in. Nebraska came into play with its backup quarterback, Chubba Purdy, after transfer Casey Thompson was ruled out Thursday with a hand injury. But Purdy was knocked out midway through the second quarter after taking a hit when he slid awkwardly for a first down.
The drive, which was finished by Logan Smothers at quarterback, resulted in the Huskers' only points of the game.
Offense goes ground and pound
Michigan's attack wasn't exciting, but it was effective, running 23 times in the first half for 109 yards, 103 of which came from Corum. The Wolverines set the tone on their 12-play, 80-yard opening drive; they ran nine times (none of which gained more than 9 yards) and passed three times.
Corum had a 4-yard catch, then six rushes (Donovan Edwards had two touches as well) before he pounded in his 17th touchdown of the season, which put him into a tie with Anthony Thomas for fifth-most in a single season in program history.
The next two drives lasted just seven combined plays — McCarthy was 0-for-4 passing with a sack mixed in — and Michigan went back to the ground.
After Nebraska failed to set the edge on the fifth Corum run of Michigan's fourth drive, the back bounced a rush outside right for a gain of 12 to make it first-and-goal. Michigan called a play-action, which led to Bell running wide open in the end zone for his first touchdown reception since Week 2 against Hawaii.
Curiously, the Wolverines took their time on the final drive of half and settled for a field goal, going into the break with two of their three timeouts remaining.
The Wolverines on the second drive of the second half marched on a 10-play, 65-yard drive, rushing the ball nine times. After Corum had consecutive rushes for 7 and 10 yards to get down to the Nebraska 3, McCarthy kept the designed run around the left side for the walk-in touchdown.
Four running backs touched the ball on the drive; Corum, C.J. Stokes, Isaiah Gash and Tavierre Dunlap, but Donovan Edwards did not play that possession. He touched the ball twice in the first quarter, rushing for 13 yards, and stood next to coaches on the sideline with a helmet on, but didn't go into the game over the final three quarters.
Corum didn't enter the game in the fourth quarter, but Stokes showed flashes with consecutive runs of 17, 15 and 14 to get into Nebraska territory. On second-and-6, McCarthy found Bell on a crossing route who broke a tackle, stayed in bounds and scampered up the right sideline but fumbled the ball just before he crossed the goal line.
Andrel Anthony recovered the ball in the end zone as it was headed out of bounds and was credited with the touchdown.
Stokes finished with eight carries for 68 yards, a career best, as Michigan ran 49 times for 264 yards.
Defense dominates from start to finish
Nebraska gained 34 yards on its first drive, 30 of which came on a third-and-6 deep ball to one of the Big Ten's best receivers, Trey Palmer. The Huskers also put together a 12-play, 47-yard drive shortly before the half when Purdy got knocked out of the game.
Outside of those two efforts that netted 81 yards, the Huskers managed just 60 more yards on the day. Michigan's rushing defense, which entered the game No. 1 in the nation allowing less than 73 rushing yards per game, maintained its status quo, allowing 75 yards on 29 carrries (2.6 per attempt).
Anthony Grant, the Huskers leading rusher coming into play, was held to just 22 yards on 11 carries.
Purdy completed his first three passes of the day, but he went 6-for-12 for 56 yards on the day while Smothers went 4-for-8 and just 15 yards as the Huskers had just eight first downs on the day.
Michigan completed its fourth second-half shutout in its last five games and has now outscored opponents in those quarters, 117-3.
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Michigan football throttles Nebraska to remain unbeaten
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Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham missed their road game Friday against the New York Knicks and he'll miss a few more.
The team announced Saturday that Cunningham will miss tonight's home game against the Boston Celtics and their next three games. That positions him to return on the road against the Sacramento Kings on Nov. 20, and sit out of their home game Monday against the Toronto Raptors and road games against the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
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"We’re being cautious," Dwane Casey said during his pregame availability Saturday. "The medical team is working with it and treating it. We feel like giving him those days off will help alleviate the pain and soreness."
Cunningham's absence will certainly be felt by a rebuilding Pistons team that's 3-10 and tied for last place in the Eastern Conference. He's averaging team highs with 19.9 points and 6.0 assists while adding 6.2 rebounds. It'll create opportunity for Killian Hayes, who scored 16 points Wednesday and tallied 11 points, seven assists, six rebounds and four steals Friday, and rookie Jaden Ivey.
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Detroit Pistons' Cade Cunningham to miss a week (shin)
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Dennis Miller, co-owner of iconic Miller's Bar, dies at 74
Dennis Miller — a longtime co-owner of Dearborn's iconic Miller's Bar, beloved by burger fans in metro Detroit and beyond — died Thursday, according to a family post on the Miller's Bar Facebook page. He was 74.
According to the Detroit News, Miller died of cancer.
"We will all miss him more than words can express," his wife, Dorene Miller, and brother Mark Miller wrote.Miller’s Bar, according to the post, will be closed as usual on Sunday.
The bar, according to the post, will close for the funeral service Monday and reopen Tuesday the post said."We want to thank everyone that has reached out to us, our families and the staff at the bar how grateful we are to have friends and customers who truly care. We appreciate your business and we will continue to carry on the Miller tradition of serving our award-winning burgers, " the family wrote.
In business since 1941, Miller's is known for its famous no-frills signature juicy ground round burgers topped with or without cheese and served on a white bun in waxed paper. Its burgers are 7 ounces and served and optional pickles and onions.
Miller's Bar was listed for sale a year ago.
The bar’s burgers have received plenty of accolades both locally and nationally. It's also known as being a "cash-only" spot where you pay on the honor system. A server takes your order and you pay at the bar by telling the bartender what you ordered. "We use the honor system here. Just tell us what you had," according to the menu on its website.
Miller’s uncle first opened the bar in 1941, Miller told the Free Press in 2008. His dad, Russell Miller, "made it what it is," Miller recounted at the time.
Miller started working there doing "porter work — janitorial stuff — in the ninth grade and was bartending in 12th grade," he told the Free Press. He and his brother then took over running the family burger bar, a well-known spot for Ford workers and families with their kids.
Miller was featured in a September 2021 CBS News segment on the global shortage of semiconductors and the impact it was having on the auto industry and local businesses. Miller estimated, according to the segment, that 60% of his business is tied to the auto industry and that reduced traffic from Ford employees working remotely cut into business. is likely slashed because of workers working at home.
Arrangements are being handled by Howe Peterson Funeral Home in Dearborn, according to the Facebook post.
In addition to his wife and brother, Miller is survived by another brother, Scott Miller. He was preceded in death by his parents, Russell and Ethel Miller; a sister, Wendy Bardelli; and brother Guy Miller.
Visitation for Miller is 2-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home's Dearborn Chapel. The funeral service is slated for 10 a.m. Monday at the chapel.
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2022-11-13T01:26:06Z
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Dennis Miller, co-owner of iconic Miller's Bar dies at 74
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The Detroit Pistons received some bad news before Saturday's game against the Boston Celtics — Cade Cunningham will miss their next three games with left shin soreness. He was in street clothes on the bench Saturday, and could return on Nov. 20.
The Celtics were also shorthanded, as Jaylen Brown sat out with a left knee contusion and Malcolm Brogdon, Al Horford also missed the game. It didn't matter for the defending Eastern Conference champions, as a 43-point, 10-rebound performance from Jayson Tatum was enough to beat the Pistons, 117-108, at Little Caesars Arena.
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Jaden Ivey's career night not enough vs. Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
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In a complex and emotional legal dispute in Macomb County, science, religion and the rule of law are colliding as a divorced couple feud over who owns the rights to an embryo that was created during the marriage.
To date, the judge overseeing the 2-year-old dispute has consistently sided with the father, 45-year-old David Markiewicz of Shelby Township, who has been awarded the embryo in part because his sperm helped create it, not his wife's egg.
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"Sarah has said, 'Look I don’t want any money. I don’t want any support. I just want to have this child,'" her lawyer, Michael Balian, told the Free Press, stressing that the courts must treat this decision delicately, "especially when you have the potential for life."
"I’m just looking to keep together the family that was made in the first place, and not feel like I’m losing part of it," Sarah Markiewicz said, noting that discarding the embryo is "not an option." She views it as abortion.
"My big concern right now are the four children that we have growing up with two parents who just can’t get along."
David Markiewicz
David and Sarah Markiewicz met in high school chemistry class. She went to Plymouth Salem. He went to Plymouth Canton. They started out as friends and then dated in college. In 2009, the couple married and set out to grow a family.
A family fractured
David Markiewicz was devastated. He said he didn't want the divorce. He had married what he described as "the love of my life for many years" and believes his wife left him because he worked too much. As the main provider for the family, his $200,000-a-year job as a nurse anesthetist kept him away from home a lot.
"It's a loss. It's a death," he said of the divorce. "I’m better now. I just want what’s best for my kids. I’m not looking to have another child with her."
The 2-year-old legal battle over the embryo has been draining for him, and he said he's especially irked by his ex-wife's assertion that she wants the embryo to keep her family together.
"I am frustrated to say the least," David Markiewicz said.
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About 4 million children a year are born in the United States using in vitro fertilization, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of frozen embryos abandoned in fertility clinics is harder to come by because the CDC does not require that reporting. Researchers estimate the number to be in the hundreds of thousands.
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Divorced Michigan couple fights over frozen embryo
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CHICAGO − The Detroit Lions had no answer for Justin Fields and the Chicago Bears’ NFL-best rushing attack – until they needed one most.
Fields ran for 147 yards and two touchdowns, but Jared Goff led a go-ahead 91-yard touchdown drive with 2:21 to play and the Lions sacked Fields twice on the ensuing possession to defeat the Bears, 31-30, for their second straight win.
The victory is the Lions’ first road win under Dan Campbell and gives the Lions (3-6) back-to-back victories for the first time since early in the 2020 season.
Jamaal Williams scored the winning touchdown on 1-yard run with 2:21 to play, two plays after Goff completed a 44-yard pass to Tom Kennedy on third-and-9.
Amon-Ra St. Brown took a shovel pass to the 1-yard line on the next play, and Williams barreled into the end zone to give the Lions their first lead of the second half.
The Bears, who missed an extra point after Fields scored on a 67-yard run with 9:11 left in the fourth quarter, started their final possession at their own 20-yard line and picked up one first down before the Lions defense came alive.
Fields threw incomplete on first-and-10, when Jeff Okudah collided with Cole Kmet and officials did not throw a flag. Aidan Hutchinson sacked Fields on second down, and after a short pass on third down, Julian Okwara sacked Fields for a 10-yard loss.
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Fields escaped Okwara’s first tackle attempt, but Alex Anzalone pinned the elusive Fields in the pocket and Okwara wrapped him up from behind.
Fields, who the Lions passed on with the seventh pick of the 2021 draft, topped 140 yards rushing for the second straight week, and has 554 yards rushing in Chicago’s past five games, an NFL record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in five games in the Super Bowl era.
The Bears (3-7) ran for 128 yards in the first half, 69 by Fields on eight rushes, and 258 yards in the game.
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Fields scored on a 1-yard run just before halftime to tie the game at 10, and gave the Bears a 24-10 lead in the third quarter with two touchdown passes to Kmet.
The Lions answered with a 9-yard touchdown run by D’Andre Swift on a four-play drive kept alive by three Bears penalties, and Jeff Okudah returned an errant Fields pass 20 yards for a touchdown to tie the game.
Goff finished 19 of 26 passing for 236 yards with one touchdown and had one interception negated by penalty.
The Lions are now in second place in the putrid NFC North, and visit the surging New York Giants (7-2) next Sunday at 1 p.m.
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Detroit Lions rally past Bears, 31-30; Dan Campbell's 1st road win
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Northville residents Omar Salamen, 46, and his wife, Manal Kadry, 40, were killed in a rollover crash Saturday night, according to police. The one-vehicle crash occurred in the Steeplechase subdivision near the intersection of Seven Mile and Napier roads in Northville Township.
The vehicle left the road and hit a tree while navigating a curve in the neighborhood, according to a press release Sunday from the Northville Township Police and Fire Departments. The couple were pronounced dead at the scene.
The couple leaves behind four children, according to his medical practice website. Salamen was an oral surgeon and operated Dexter Oral Surgery and Implant Center in Dexter.
A Michigan native, Salamen attended dental school at the University of Michigan and then completed his oral surgery training at the NOVA Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine in Florida, his website said. After nine years in private practice in Chicago, Salamen returned to Michigan to open Dexter Oral Surgery and Implant Center.
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Kadry ran an interior design business. Many loved ones and community members shared condolences on social media.
The Detroit Free Press quoted Kadry in 2016, when she worked as an art teacher in Detroit. The article highlighted her students' work with a local artist.
A funeral prayer will be held at the Muslim Community of Western Suburbs in Canton Monday at 1 pm. Burial will follow at Knollwood Memorial Park.
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Parents of four die in roll-over accident
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Ferris State will begin its quest to defend its NCAA Division II football title against a familiar foe: fellow GLIAC member Davenport, which the Bulldogs beat, 28-7, on Nov. 5 in Big Rapids. Ferris State drew the No. 2 seed in its region, but the Bulldogs’ eyes will likely be on a potential rematch with the one school to beat them this season: Grand Valley State.
The GLIAC champion Lakers — who beat Ferris State, 22-21, in the Anchor-Bone Classic on Oct. 15 en route to an unbeaten record and the No. 1 ranking in the final regular-season poll — are the No. 1 seed in their region and have a first-round bye. GVSU will host Saturday’s winner between Ouachita Baptist and Northwest Missouri State on Nov. 26. The regional final will be on Dec. 3, with the national semifinals on Dec. 10 and the national title game set for Dec. 17 in McKinney, Texas, and broadcast on ESPNU.
ANCHOR-BONE HISTORY:Grand Valley State knocks off Ferris State in battle of top two teams in Division II
THE BULLDOGS' TITLE:Ferris State football wins Division II national title by trampling Valdosta State, 58-17
Ferris State took the 2021 title with a dominating rushing performance in a 58-17 win over Valdosta State.
Division III: Alma Scots to host Mount St. Joseph of Cincinnati
Alma, which finished the MIAA slate unbeaten (and 10-0 overall) with a 34-31 win over Albion last week, will host a first-round game at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Scots will face Mount St. Joseph, the champions of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Alma made history this year, winning its first MIAA title since 2004 and completing the first undefeated season in the 128-year history of the program.
SATURDAY'S ACTION:Grand Valley State wins GLIAC, Alma carries MIAA
The Lions, located in Cincinnati, also went 10-0, including a 33-28 win over GLIAC member Hope in mid-September. Alma beat Hope, 28-26, on Oct. 15. The winner of Saturday’s first-round game will face Saturday’s winner between Wisconsin-Whitewater and Aurora on Nov. 26.
The regional final is set for Dec. 3, with the national semifinals slated for Dec. 10 and the national final, aka the Amos Alonzo Staff Bowl, scheduled for Dec. 16 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Grand Valley State a 1-seed in 2022 NCAA D-II football tournament
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We continue to talk by phone, but when I speak with any of these family members, they always pressure me to make a return visit. When I talk to my mother, she makes remarks like, “I thought you forgot about me,” or, “Why haven’t I heard from you?”
For her, it’s as if the past 60-odd years never happened. She never asks anything about my life growing up or about my (wonderful) parents, who have both passed away.
I want to see these family members, but for my own emotional sanity I want only a brief visit. When I arranged a hotel room for my first visit, my mother nearly flipped out and I had to cancel the room and agree to stay at her house.
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Family reunification has a downside
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Hamtramck Public Schools will establish a new process that includes parents to review books for students after some had raised concerns about books with LGBTQ themes they believe are too sexually explicit for children.
"We will be introducing a new book review process that will include a committee consisting of parents, educators and administrators," the district said in a statement provided Friday by Hamtramck Schools Interim Superintendent and English Language Development director Nabil Nagi. "The committee’s role will not be to limit student access to books, but to ensure that books available to our students are appropriate based on education guidelines."
Nagi added in a letter that some of the claims made by protesters are inaccurate.
At a packed board meeting last Wednesday, speakers railed against the books and the district. The scene and messages were similar to board meetings and protests held in recent months in Dearborn. Attendees and protesters at the Hamtramck meeting included Republicans and others who have been leading protests in Dearborn: Hassan Aoun, Stephanie Butler, and Mike Hacham. Similar protests have taken place across Michigan this year.
The protesters said the LGBTQ books are inappropriate for Hamtramck because of its sizable immigrant and Muslim population. Hamtramck has the highest percentage of residents who are immigrants, many of whom Muslim.
At the Hamtramck meeting, Aoun yelled at school officials, approaching the table where they sat and dropped a book he objected to, telling one of them to read it.
"You call yourself a Muslim?" Aoun said to a school official. "You ain't no Muslim man."
The day after the board meeting, Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib issued a statement on Facebook expressing support for parents who are concerned about the books, writing: "Dear Hamtramck parents: We heard you, As a parent, I personally share the same concerns with you about the kind, quality and and future of education for our kids. We trust that you and the board of education will solve the pressing books issue in the best interest of our kids and our community as a whole. ... We will do everything we can to help you achieve that goal."
The district has been pushing back on their allegations, saying that inaccurate information on the issue has been circulating online. In a letter dated Nov. 4 sent to parents, Nagi wrote: "Today we were made aware of posts on social media indicating the District has approved certain materials for our students that contain inappropriate language, images, and concepts that are inappropriate for our students."
Two of the books the protesters object to include "Flamer" by Mike Curato and "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George Johnson.
But the district's "investigation has revealed that none of the material these posts have complained about and allege have been made available to our students have in fact been reviewed or approved," Nagi said in his letter. "While we can understand community concern ... we should all be disappointed when unfounded accusations and allegations are made which basic inquiry and research could have prevented."
Nagi told the Free Press that "there appears to be a misunderstanding about what materials are in our curriculum and available to students in our libraries. I believe we have made some progress in clearing that up, but we will work further with our parents to try and ensure there isn’t any confusion."
The statement added that the district takes "pride in partnering with parents and guardians to provide students with a safe and healthy learning environment. Through a comprehensive review process, following state and federal guidelines, all materials used for the instruction of our students are reviewed following state and federal education guidelines."
But because "we value the partnership we have developed with our parents and the community," the district will have a new review process, the district said.
The debate over the books is the latest controversy in Hamtramck regarding LGBTQ issues. Last year, the previous mayor, Karen Majewski, raised a LGBTQ Pride flag outside City Hall, which upset some in the city. Ghalib ran for mayor on a platform that included opposition to the raising of the Pride flag on city property.
In July, the chair of Hamtramck's Human Relations Commission, Russ Gordon, raised an LGBTQ Pride flag on city property on Joseph Campau Avenue, drawing criticism and renewing the debate. Some anti-gay graffiti was found in a park outside City Hall in September.
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On this episode: This week, Andrew Hammond is joined by former Free Press sports writer Keith Gave, who covered the 1997 Michigan football team in their game at Wisconsin. The setting and spot on the schedule may have been the biggest hurdle for the Wolverines, especially once Charles Woodson and Brian Griese got on the field.
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How 1997 Michigan football team avoided trap game vs. Wisconsin
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And skills she has. In addition to the career kills, Murray collected 130 blocks, 1,423 digs and 362 aces. Her tall and athletic frame was an imposing sight across the net for opponents, especially her final two seasons. Skyline finished runner-up in the Division 1 state finals last year to Bloomfield Hills Marian, but this year was bumped out of the regionals by Okemos.
Murray was clearly wiping away tears, of both joy and sadness, when holding the trophy and greeting her supporters. Many know that her father, Vada Murray, died of lung cancer when she was just 6 years old. She plans to honor him by wearing the No. 27 he wore for the University of Michigan football team. Nebraska will give her that number to wear; it gives her a sense he is with her on the court.
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Ann Arbor Skyline's Harper Murray named 2022 Miss Volleyball
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When Mark Stewart, the chief operating officer for Stellantis’ North American operations, was asked Monday in Detroit whether there’s still time for African American automotive suppliers to become suppliers in the electric vehicle market, he offered a quick response.
The company needs a third EV battery plant in North America by 2026, in addition to the two plants already announced, one in Windsor and one in Indiana.
More:Byron Allen's attack on McDonald's CEO is a message to Detroit carmakers
Also, at the event, Stellantis received a Benchmark Award, its second from the group, for committing to support a workforce training program at Wayne County Community College District. The program will include “more than $10 million in donated robotics equipment from Stellantis, Comau and other Tier 1 suppliers to create training for job opportunities in the automotive industry,” according to a news release,
The college is also planning to provide $10 million for infrastructure and staffing to support the program, which is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2023, the release said.
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Stellantis executive: Black auto suppliers can make impact in EV space
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White will recommend to the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners all three be suspended without pay. White also directed the Office of Professional Development to review the case and decide whether the supervisor should be considered for a reduction in rank.
White has not released body camera footage of the incident, a departure from his course of action following a recent case in which police shot and killed Porter Burks, 20, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was experiencing a mental health crisis while holding a 3.5-inch knife when five officers shot him 19 times Oct. 2. Police released footage of that incident two days later. The video led to outrage in the community about police crisis response strategy and a lawsuit from Burks' family.
Much of White's Monday news conference emphasized the need to address mental health in Detroit.
“Detroit has a mental health crisis,” White said, adding that he sent a letter to city council on Sunday regarding the state of mental health in Detroit.
The police department's crisis intervention strategy has often been successful, but is "not a foolproof strategy," White said.
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Three Detroit officers suspended after woman shot during mental crisis
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It was a record midterm election in Michigan last week. More Michiganders are registered to vote than ever before and more people voted — more than half of the state's voting-age population.
But what about voter turnout?
The chart below shows the voter turnout rate for midterm elections — the percentage who actually take part — measured in two different ways. The blue line shows voter turnout as the percentage of registered voters and the orange line shows the turnout rate relative to the voting-age population.
Historically, the gap between registered voter turnout and voting-age population turnout has been wide. That's because not everyone who is eligible to vote is registered to vote. This leads to an overestimate of voter turnout.
The total voting-age population is not a perfect way to gauge voter turnout either. Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote and people who are serving a jail or prison sentence cannot vote in Michigan. Voter turnout is underestimated with this measure.
More:How redistricting played big role in Michigan's midterm election
Over time, however, the gap between registered voter turnout and the voting-age population in Michigan has declined. There was a 16 percentage point gap in 1958 after the state first started tracking Election Day voter registration statistics. In 2018, the last midterm where official election statistics are available, the gap was just under three percentage points. That year marked the largest increase in voter turnout between two midterm elections.
Brady Baybeck, an associate professor of political science at Wayne State University, says he is not surprised by the diminishing gap. "If you make registration seamless and register every eligible person older than 18," he said, "then the number of registered voters will match the number of eligible voters."
In 2018, voters made sweeping changes to Michigan's election law. Proposal 3, Promote the Vote, automatically registers qualified citizens to vote when they obtain a driver's license or personal identification card from the Secretary of State unless they decline. The changes also included same-day voter registration and no-reason absentee voting. Separately, the Michigan Legislature passed a measure to authorize electronic voter registration, made effective in 2019.
"The modernizations passed in the last few years have successfully met voters where they're at so that they are able to access the vote," said Merissa Kovach, legislative director at American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. "No matter what they have going on in their lives ... they're not going to lose their right to vote because their options are so limited."
Last week, voters approved Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment that establishes early voting and expands access to absentee voting.
So is voter turnout up or down this year? The answer, as we saw above, depends on how you measure it.
The latest available population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau estimate 7.9 million residents ages 18 and older in Michigan last year. If you compare the total votes last week to the most recent census estimate, voter turnout rose in 2022 to 56.8% — greater than in 2018 and just a few percentage points shy of the record set in 1962 (although this rate is likely to change when the U.S. Census Bureau releases 2022 voting-age population figures).
On the other hand, based on the number of registered voters in the state, voter turnout fell in 2022. Michigan voter turnout was 54.5%, according to unofficial results — lower than in 2018 (58%). Voter registration in Michigan increased at a faster pace than the number of total ballots cast between 2018 and 2022.
On Election Day, the number of registered voters swelled in the state to more than 8.2 million people, an increase of roughly 750,000 from October 2018. That's three times the rate of the increase in votes.
But wait, we don't have 8.2 million people 18 and older living in Michigan.
Correct. Among those 8.2 million registered voters only 7.3 million are active, according to the Secretary of State. And more than 500,000 inactive voter registrations are slated for removal by 2025.
Before cancellation, clerks are required to send a notice to the voter's Michigan address. If there is no response or voting activity within two November elections held in even-numbered years the registration is canceled.
It's better to err on the side of caution, Baybeck said. "If you want to make voting easy and get people to vote, then you should keep them on the rolls," he said.
"The next issue is how do you get people to actually show up to vote?"
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Michigan sets records in midterm voting. Turnout is another story.
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Under its new guidelines for selecting and reviewing library books, Dearborn schools said Monday night that two controversial books were removed from library shelves; three will stay, but with restrictions; and no decision was made on two more.
No decision was made yet on "All Boys Aren’t Blue" by Jason Reynolds and "This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson, but neither book is available to students through libraries, nor were they part of the district’s collection. They were only available through a digital book service that has been disabled for district students.
The schools' communications director, David Mustonen, the Free Press the district is also undergoing a process of sorting through and inventorying the volumes in its collection.
"The challenge is just getting kids to read," he said, calling it a constant battle with screen time. "We all know the importance of reading and we all want kids to be spending time reading and not having just screens in from of their face all the time and everyone needs to be part of that discussion."
While book bans in public schools have been going on for decades, the scope of such censorship has recently expanded, according to a 2022 report, "Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students’ First Amendment Rights," by the New York-based nonprofit group PEN America.
Another report, released last year by the American Library Association, concluded that "libraries found themselves at the center of a culture war as conservative groups led a historic effort to ban and challenge materials that address racism, gender, politics, and sexual identity," pulling various books from shelves.
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In a court filing Monday, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office sought a life sentence with no chance for parole for Crumbley, who pleaded guilty last month to all the crimes with which he was charged, including first-degree murder and terrorism.
"As we previously stated, there have been no plea bargains, no charge reductions, and no sentence agreements," Chief Assistant Prosecutor David Williams said in a statement Tuesday. "The shooter has been offered and promised nothing. The motion filed (Monday) is a formal declaration of our intent to seek the maximum possible sentence in this case."
What's next for Ethan Crumbley
Crumbley is scheduled to be sentenced in February, though because he is a teenager, he is entitled to a so-called Miller hearing to determine whether life without parole is appropriate.
"I am disappointed by the filing, but not surprised due to the nature of the offenses that Mr. Crumbley pled guilty to," Crumbley's lawyer, Paulette Michel Loftin, said in a statement to the Free Press, adding she remains optimistic about persuading the court to impose a lighter sentence.
"The Miller hearing will give the court, as well as the public, a good inside look into the difficult home life of Mr. Crumbley and what challenges he was facing," Loftin said. "I believe that the hearing will show that Mr. Crumbley is worthy of an out date, and that there is potential for rehabilitation inside the Michigan Department of Corrections."
The U.S. Supreme Court and Michigan Supreme Court have held that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles are unconstitutional and require a hearing to review the case. At that hearing, the judge will consider several factors in reaching a decision, including:
Crumbley's background and mental and emotional development.
His home life, family environment and character.
His record while incarcerated.
The circumstances of the crime, including the extent to which Crumbley was involved and how his family or peer pressure may have played a part.
Additionally, the burden is on the prosecution to prove that the facts and circumstances of the crime warrant life without parole, and that it's a "proper sentence."
In this case, the prosecution argues Ethan Crumbley has forfeited the right to ever live freely again given what he did on Nov. 30, 2021 — the day he emerged from a school bathroom and started blasting gunfire in the hallways — just as he had planned in his journal where he wrote: "The first victim has to be pretty girl ... I will kill everyone I f------ see."
"Life without the possibility of parole is appropriate in this case," the prosecution argues in its filing. "(Crumbley) has been convicted of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree, premeditated murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder, as well as 12 (additional counts)."
'Did the kid really have a chance?'
Defense experts anticipate Crumbley's mental health will be a key factor at the Miller hearing, where, they note, his fate will be entirely in the hands of a judge.
"I wouldn’t expect anything different from the prosecutor in this situation," veteran defense attorney Mike Rataj said. "I’m sure Crumbley's lawyers will be seeking something less than that. The bottom line — it’s going to be up the judge."
Art Weiss, another seasoned criminal defense lawyer with four decades of legal experience, said Crumbley's upbringing and mental health will likely be scrutinized — though he may have a tough time convincing the judge he deserves a shorter sentence.
But Weiss believes Crumbley's home life may weigh in his favor. Prosecutors have disclosed numerous details about his upbringing, including that his parents allegedly drank heavily, struggled with money and ignored his mental health needs.
"Listening to what went on that household, did the kid really have a chance?" Weiss said. "It’s unfortunate he acted out the way that he did."
Weiss speaks from experience. Last year, he freed a Detroit man who sentenced to life without parole at the age of 17 for aiding and abetting a fatal pizzeria shooting in the 1990s. The man served 28 years in prison before Weiss intervened, arguing his client grew up in a violent home with no father figure, and was subjected to beatings by his mom's boyfriends.
As in Crumbley's case, Weiss argued his client had no chance. The courts agreed and freed him.
But not all cases involving juveniles are alike, noted defense attorney Wade Fink.
"Personally, and based on my experience, I don't believe it's ever appropriate to sentence an adolescent to life without at least a possibility, however slight, of parole," Fink said. "But if it's going to be sought in any case, the horror of the conduct here makes this the one."
"I will cause the biggest school shooting in Michigan's history. I have fully mentally lost it," Crumbley wrote in a journal found in his backpack on the morning of the shooting.
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To help with the cost of groceries, Michigan families eligible for food assistance can expect extra help this month ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Michigan families receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, will receive at least $95 more this month, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced Tuesday.
Additional food assistance for eligible families will help more than 1.3 million Michiganders in more than 700,000 households, MDHHS said in a news release.
“This extra $95 will help families get a little breathing room as we enter the holiday season,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in the statement. “I will continue to work with anyone at the federal and state level to help Michiganders put food on the table and keep their hard-earned dollars to pay for other critical household expenses.”
The additional benefits will be loaded onto Bridge Cards through Nov. 21. The added benefit will show as a separate payment from benefits already loaded on cards earlier this month. There is no need to reapply for the additional benefits.
In October, those receiving food assistance benefits also received a cost of living increase.
Food inflation has been scorching hot and increasing since this time last year. Consumers have been paying more for grocery items as prices increased by double-digits in the last few months. This is the fastest rate of increase in food prices in four decades.
In October, grocery costs rose 12.4% over the last 12 months according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Consumer Price Index report released Thursday. The cost for food items in four of the six categories that the BLS tracks rose in October. Cereals, bakery products, dairy and related products increased by more than 15%, while meats, poultry, fish and eggs saw an 8% increase over the last 12 months.
The federal government is providing the additional funding to those receiving SNAP benefits in response to COVID-19 under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
People can check their Bridge Card balance online at michigan.gov/MIBridges or call 888-678-8914. The customer service line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Spanish and Arabic services are available. For those that are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing or speech-impaired can call the Michigan Relay Center at 711. For questions about the additional benefits, call or email your caseworker.
Here are the maximum benefits recipients will receive:
Two people: $516
Three people: $740
Four people: $939
Five people: $1,116
Six people: $1,339
Seven people: $1,480
Eight people: $1,691
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The 11-foot-tall bronze statue has been looking for a while for a forever home -- and it finally may have found one in Eastern Market, the popular, historic district that’s a hubfor food, shopping, restaurants, art galleries and studios and a stunning assortment of murals.
Although he didn’t reveal specifics on the exact site, Walley said, “The plans are made for the location and it’s going to be great.”
News of Eastern Market as a possible permanent location for the tribute to the fictional pop-culture icon broke Tuesday in Crain’s Detroit Business.
Brandon Walley, who’s helped lead Imagination Station’s efforts, said that even if an announcement is made before next year, any installation process would have to wait until the weather turns warmer in 2023.
After devoting so much time to making the RoboCop statue a Detroit landmark, he’s in no mood to rush. “We’ve just kind of been taking our time and doing it slow,” he said. “ It’s kind of like, well, after a decade, let’s just make sure we finish this off right.”
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Detroit's RoboCop statue could be putting down roots in Eastern Market
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Aliz Cservenak can drink with a straw.
The happy 9-year-old can whistle, she said in Hungarian, translated by her older sister, Lili Misúr.
And food and drinks don’t come out of her nose anymore.
That's all thanks to two surgeries — with more to come — by Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate, a plastic surgeon at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, the new name for Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.
“She loves him,” Misúr said of the affection Aliz feels for the U.S. doctor who agreed to restore some of her facial features after a severe infection set in while she was hospitalized for chemotherapy battling cancer in her native Hungary.
Surgery was 'high risk' and 'could be high failure'
The feeling is mutual. It took only 30 minutes for Chaiyasate to agree to see the family when it reached out for help via email after doctors in Hungary said they would perform plastic surgery only on someone age 18 or older.
“It’s high risk. There could be high failure,” Chaiyasate said. “Risk by the doctor and the family, but I think they have hope and courage.”
And love.
Love clearly seen Tuesday when Aliz’s mother, Mariann Dekany, and her sister held her tiny hands talking about their journey. And love by the doctor, who bent down to get a big hug from his smiling, beloved young patient, who has undergone two surgeries in two months.
Aliz spent more than half her life in a hospital in Hungary battling cancer. During an extended stay in a hospital there, she contracted a severe infection called mucormycosis. It caused disintegration of the bones in her nose and face. As a result, she lost her nose, part of her palate and upper jaw.
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Infection serious, but rare
The fungal infection is serious, but rare, and is caused by a group of molds caused mucormycetes, which live throughout the environment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It mainly affects people who have health problems, including cancer, or take medications that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness, according to the CDC.
The CDC said the infection most commonly affects the sinuses or lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the air, but it can also occur on the skin after a cut, burn or other type of skin injury. On its website, it lists five different kinds of mucormycosis, with different types of symptoms depending on the type of infection.
The CDC said it’s difficult to determine the exact number of cases because no national surveillance exists in the U.S. A review of published cases found an overall all-cause mortality rate of 54%, but that rate varied depending on the patient's underlying condition, type of fungus and body site affected.
The CDC said that in a health-care setting, it can be difficult to determine whether the infection is health care-associated or whether it was acquired somewhere else. Sources in health care-associated mucormycosis outbreaks include adhesive bandages, wooden tongue depressors, hospital linens, negative pressure rooms, water leaks, poor air filtration, nonsterile medical devices and building construction, according to the CDC.
The first blow: cancer
In 2017, Aliz, then 4, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, a type of blood and bone marrow cancer that affects white blood cells. She underwent chemotherapy for a year.
The cancer returned in 2019. Aliz underwent more aggressive chemotherapy.
Her immune system was compromised, and she contracted the fungal infection in her nose, which spread to her brain, lungs and hard palate, the bony part of the palate that forms the roof of the mouth.
Aliz recovered from the infection in 10 months and was able to successfully receive a bone marrow transplant, her mother said she told local hospital representatives. But the girl’s nose and hard palate died from the infection and had to be removed.
Her parents wanted to have her face restored in Hungary, but numerous doctors there said she had to be at least 18 for facial reconstruction surgery.
The family took to the internet and found Chaiyasate, emailed him and had a response within 30 minutes with the answer they were hoping for. He could help them in the U.S.
'We're gonna help her'
He recalled Tuesday that the email was “quite heartbreaking. We’re gonna help her.”
He met with the family and performed one surgery Oct. 6 and another Nov. 4. In the microsurgeries, healthy tissue from other areas of Aliz’s body, including each of her forearms, was taken and transferred to her lip and nose as part of the reconstruction.
Chaiyasate said another surgery is planned in December. Aliz and her family will return to Hungary for Christmas, then come back in January for more procedures, possibly being done by summer, the doctor said. Other procedures may be needed in the future as she grows.
Aliz is in second grade and is studying and doing homework while she is staying in metro Detroit. But she and her family also have taken in some of the area’s attractions, including the Detroit Zoo and the Detroit RiverWalk, where they could see Canada across the Detroit River.
Aliz, whose cancer is in remission, is one of about 15 patients Chaiyasate has helped through the Beaumont Foundation, which he said has helped pay for medical fees for patients.
He said while some doctors may not do these procedures at such a young age, he believes the discrimination a child faces “scars forever.”
Aliz’s family said they already saw that in Hungary, with one child telling their daughter that she was "so ugly." That’s why they are deeply grateful for the opportunity Chaiyasate is providing their daughter.
“It’s really like a miracle to us,” Misúr said, translating for her family, adding that Aliz is "a hero" to her.
“We want to give her a life that she deserves," she said. "We want to give her a happy and healthy life.”
Contact Christina Hall: chall@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter: @challreporter
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Hungarian girl, 9, smiles again with help from metro Detroit doctor
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Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris and his former boss, San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi, have linked up on a trade.
The Tigers acquired outfielder Steele Walker — the No. 46 overall pick in the 2018 draft — from the Giants for cash considerations, the team announced Tuesday. Walker made his MLB debut in June 2022 with the Texas Rangers.
The 26-year-old, a left-handed hitter, projects as organizational depth with upside.
Walker played five games for the Rangers last season, going 1-for-14 with two walks and four strikeouts. He notched his first hit — a solo home run off Cleveland Guardians starter Cal Quantrill — in the second game of his career.
The Rangers acquired Walker in December 2019 as the return piece in a trade with the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox received outfielder Nomar Mazara, who later played 50 games for the Tigers in 2021.
The White Sox drafted Walker out of the University of Oklahoma.
In August 2022, the Giants claimed Walker off waivers from the Rangers. At the time, Harris was serving as San Francisco's general manager under Zaidi. Harris joined the Tigers in September and took control of day-to-day operations in October.
Last season, Walker played 75 games at the Triple-A level for Round Rock in the Rangers' organization (50 games) and Sacramento in the Giants' organization (25 games). He hit .268 with nine home runs, 24 walks and 51 strikeouts, posting a .333 on-base percentage.
Walker has played all three outfield positions as a pro but has recently settled in as a corner outfielder. He started three games in left field and one game in right for the Rangers in 2022.
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Detroit Tigers acquire OF Steele Walker, 26, from Giants
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The Detroit Tigers added five players to their 40-man roster — outfielder Parker Meadows, infielder Wenceel Perez, infielder Andre Lipcius, right-handed starter Reese Olson and right-handed reliever Brendan White — before Tuesday's deadline to protect them from being selected in December's 2022 Rule 5 draft.
Olson is the Tigers' No. 9 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, followed by Perez at No. 14, Meadows at No. 16 and Lipcius at No. 22.
The most notable omission is 20-year-old outfielder Jose De La Cruz, the 27th-ranked prospect who signed for $1.85 million out of the Dominican Republic in July 2018. He struck out 132 times with in 92 games for Low-A Lakeland this season.
To make room for the additions, the Tigers designated for assignment right-handed relievers Miguel Díaz and Kyle Funkhouser, left-handed reliever Sean Guenther, catcher Michael Papierski and outfielder Brendon Davis.
Guenther cleared waivers and has been outrighted to Triple-A Toledo.
The 40-man roster is now full.
"You never want to lose talented young players," Scott Harris, president of baseball operations, said last week at the general manager meetings in Las Vegas. "However, I really appreciate 40-man flexibility, and I know what we can do with available roster spots. We're going to try to walk that line between protecting the players that are most likely to be taken in the Rule 5 draft while maintaining that 40-man flexibility that allows us to stay nimble and seize opportunities throughout the winter. It's really tough."
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The Rule 5 draft is scheduled for Dec. 7 as part of baseball's annual winter meetings in San Diego. Any team that makes a selection pays $100,000 to the organization losing the player. A player chosen in the draft must spend the entire 2023 season on their new team's active MLB roster (or injured list) or be offered back to their former team for $50,000.
In the 2020 Rule 5 draft, the Tigers selected outfielder Akil Baddoo after the Minnesota Twins left him unprotected. He survived — and thrived — in his first season and has played 197 games in MLB over the past two seasons, batting .241 with 15 home runs, 69 walks and 186 strikeouts.
The 2021 Rule 5 draft was canceled because of MLB's lockout.
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Right-handed reliever Elvis Alvarado, who turns 24 in February, is the most likely unprotected player to be selected by a different team. He joined the Tigers last offseason in the minor-league phase of the Rule 5 draft, which wasn't canceled.
He climbed from Low-A Lakeland to Double-A Erie, posting a 2.25 ERA in six games for Lakeland, a 1.86 ERA in 23 games for West Michigan and a 3.97 ERA in 20 games for Erie. In total, Alvarado had a 2.72 ERA with 18 walks and 63 strikeouts in 59⅔ innings out of the bullpen. His fastball reaches 100 mph, complementing his slider and changeup.
After the season, the Tigers re-signed Alvarado to a minor-league contract to keep him from becoming a minor-league free agent, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The new deal included an invitation to MLB spring training.
Right-hander Austin Bergner — the Tigers' No. 15 prospect — is another candidate to be selected by a new club in the Rule 5 draft. The 25-year-old, a former ninth-round pick, had a 3.47 ERA with 47 walks and 121 strikeouts in 119⅓ innings over 27 games (26 starts) between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo. For the Mud Hens, though, Bergner registered a 6.91 ERA in eight games and struggled to throw strikes.
Left-hander Adam Wolf, who turns 26 in December, could also be added in the draft. Wolf, a former fifth-round pick, logged a 2.72 ERA with 37 walks and 92 strikeouts in 89⅓ innings over 35 games (11 starts) for Double-A Erie in 2022.
The 40-man additions
Olson, 23, spent the entire 2022 season in Double-A Erie and set the SeaWolves' franchise record with 168 strikeouts — with just 38 walks — in 119⅔ innings, averaging 12.6 strikeouts per nine innings. He had a 4.14 ERA in 26 games (25 starts).
The Tigers acquired Olson at the 2021 trade deadline from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for left-handed reliever Daniel Norris. His changeup and his slider are above-average pitches, but fastball command plagued him at times. He allowed too many hits, including 15 home runs, primarily due to missing with his fastball when behind in counts.
A trip to the bullpen could be in his future if he can't unlock a better fastball.
Perez, a 23-year-old switch-hitter, put together the best season of his career and reclaimed top prospect status in 2022. He spent time with High-A West Michigan (55 games) and Double-A Erie (39 games), batting a combined .295 with 14 home runs and a .902 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.
With the SeaWolves, Perez batted .307 with a .914 OPS, 8.8% walk rate and 13.5% strikeout rate before a back injury ended his season in mid-August. He showed contact skills, plate discipline and power that could continue to develop.
Defensively, he fits best at second base.
Like Perez, Meadows salvaged his prospect status with a breakthrough 2022 season. The 23-year-old, a left-handed hitter, changed his mechanics last offseason and implemented a shorter swing. The brother of current Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows, he posted a .270 batting average, 20 home runs and an .819 OPS in 127 games with High-A West Michigan (14 games) and Double-A Erie (113 games), stealing 17 bases in 19 attempts.
Meadows crushed 16 of those 20 homers for the SeaWolves, tossing in a 10.6% walk rate and an impressive 18.4% strikeout rate. He finished strong, too, with his best power month coming in August and his best all-around month in September.
The Tigers sent Meadows to the Arizona Fall League after the regular season. The former second-round pick, easily the most athletic prospect in the farm system, played 24 games and hit .224 with three homers, seven walks and 16 strikeouts.
Lipcius, 24, displayed improved contact and plate discipline last season, batting a combined .277 with 12 home runs, 86 walks and 89 strikeouts in 134 games. The 2019 third-rounder jumped from Double-A Erie (88 games) to Triple-A Toledo (46 games).
For the Mud Hens, Lipcius batted .302 and maintained control of the strike zone. His lack of power is the biggest concern offensively, but he profiles as a right-handed utility player at worst. He can play second base and third base on defense.
White, who turns 24 this week, was the most underrated addition to the 40-man roster. The former 26th-round draft pick posted a 2.67 ERA with 17 walks and 73 strikeouts in 67⅓ innings over 48 games for Double-A Erie last season.
The Tigers drafted White as a starting pitcher but converted him to a full-time reliever last season, enhancing his above-average slider. He logged a 4.17 ERA with 27 walks and 107 strikeouts in 26 games (18 starts) for High-A West Michigan in 2021.
He has averaged 2.5 walks per nine innings in his professional career.
Draft candidates
Here's the full list of Rule 5 draft-eligible players from the Tigers' organization:
Right-handed pitchers: Austin Bergner, Chance Kirby, Keider Montero, Sawyer Gipson-Long, Wilkel Hernandez, Elvis Alvarado, Zack Hess, Nick Kuzia, Yaya Chentouf, Billy Lescher, Chavez Fernander, Dario Gardea, Bryce Tassin, Angel Reyes, Michael Bienlien, Williander Moreno, Jose Diaz.
Left-handed pitchers: Adam Wolf, Carlos Pena, Matt Walker, Jack O'Loughlin, Jared Tobey, Andrew Magno.
Catchers: Jon Rosoff, Eduardo Valencia, Daneurys De La Cruz, Manuel Garcia.
Infielders: Quincy Nieporte, Jake Holton, Andrew Navigato, John Valente, Adinso Reyes, Corey Joyce.
Outfielders: Dane Myers, Dylan Rosa, Eric De La Rosa, Bryant Packard, Jose De La Cruz, Iverson Leonardo.
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Yet another Detroit Pistons injury will cost a key member time on the floor.
The Pistons announced Tuesday night that center Isaiah Stewart has been diagnosed with a sprained right big toe and will be re-evaluated in two-to-three weeks.
Stewart suffered the injury during the first half of Monday's loss to the Raptors at Little Caesars Arena, when he was chasing a loose ball out of bounds.
This season, Stewart is averaging 12.0 points and 9.3 rebounds through 15 games. He's shooting 47.5% from the field and 33.3% on 3-pointers.
The Pistons are currently without second-year guard Cade Cunningham, who is in the middle of an at least five-game rest with a sore left shin.
With Stewart out, the Pistons will likely use Marvin Bagley III and rookie Jalen Duren at center. The injury will force Dwane Casey to abandon his two-big man lineups once again until Stewart returns. The Pistons went with a Bagley-Stewart frontcourt in their starting lineup against the Raptors on Monday, and Bagley and Duren played significant minutes with each other against the Boston Celtics on Saturday.
Stewart's injury will also lead to additional starting lineup changes. Saddiq Bey was moved to the bench in favor of Bagley on Monday. It remains to be seen if Bey's role will change again until Stewart returns.
Detroit begins a six-game road trip in Los Angeles against the Clippers on Thursday.
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Detroit Pistons' Isaiah Stewart (sprained toe) out at least 2-3 weeks
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Tshiebwe, the reigning national player of the year, made his season debut for Kentucky (2-0), coming off the bench and finishing with 22 points and 18 rebounds before fouling out in the first overtime.
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But after a pair of Jaden Akins free throws, the Spartans found their deep stroke, with Walker and Hauser hitting back-to-back 3-pointers to force Wildcats coach John Calipari to call a timeout to stem MSU’s 8-0 run that it a 21-20 lead with 7:12 left in the opening half.
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Michigan State basketball outlasts Kentucky in 2OT, 86-77
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When Dave Coulter was describing Oakland County’s location to a group of businesspeople in Sweden, he referenced Eminem.
Coulter, who is traveling this week to Stockholm and Munich, Germany, to promote the county and make connections, said he asked for a show of hands from those who know of the Detroit rapper. It’s likely everyone there raised a hand, he said.
“It is amazing how well-known Eminem is around the world,” said Coulter, the Oakland County executive.
“I said, ‘And you remember that movie '8 Mile?' Well, That’s us. That’s our southern border, that’s Detroit’s northern border.”
Coulter said, “their eyes lit up.”
While Coulter didn’t go to Europe to talk about metro Detroit music and film references, the cultural reach of the Motor City did help him explain a bit about a county with a name that people from other parts of the world sometimes confuse with a city in California.
The fruits of the trip as of Tuesday included a joint statement of cooperation that aims to “promote innovation and sustainable growth in the mobility and advanced manufacturing industries” with Business Sweden, a public-private partnership that promotes Sweden and its businesses around the globe.
While Sweden might not spring immediately to mind for many when thinking of economic development, Coulter noted that 13 Swedish companies already operate in the county, and a trip to Stockholm and a “Mobility in Michigan” event at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Sweden offered an opportunity to connect with even more.
As many as 35 businesses were represented, many of which are startups that are growing quickly. And for many companies in Sweden, the United States is viewed as the ultimate target market, he said.
Building these relationships could lead to more investment in the county, which could mean more jobs, which is a win for the county, said Coulter, noting during a media briefing over Zoom on Tuesday that he’s confident the approximately $20,000 price tag for his team of five for the trip will be offset by the gains.
Coulter noted that Sweden and Michigan also have a lot in common, from a similar population size of more than 10 million each, to a location with coastlines and natural beauty.
“But more relevant today is our shared reputation for being a hub for advanced manufacturing, which is big business in Oakland County,” Coulter said in a statement.
Coulter noted during his media briefing that the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce plans to hold an event in Oakland County next November. The group's website lists its 2023 summit in Detroit (Florida and Arizona were recent locations), calling the summit a "key event to support and facilitate economic expansion and business between the United States and Sweden. Not only is the U.S. Sweden’s largest trading partner outside the (European Union), Swedish companies also create over 350,000 job opportunities in the U.S. In addition, Sweden is one of the largest investors per capita in the U.S."
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The current weeklong trip, which wraps up Saturday, includes meetings, networking and a presentation by Coulter and Oakland County Director of Economic Development Ingrid Tighe at a “Smart Mobility Forum” through SEMICON Europa 2022, which is connected to the massive Electronica Trade Fair. SEMICON “focuses on the development of semiconductor supply chains and is working to strengthen ties with the automotive industry,” according to a news release.
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Both Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and business groups have expressed concern about a hike to the state's minimum wage slated for February, but the issue — and the underlying "adopt and amend" legislative maneuver that thrust it into action — appears unlikely to be on tap for the outgoing Legislature's lame-duck session.
Michigan is slated for two changes to its wage laws on Feb. 19 — the state’s minimum wage will rise to $15 per hour, and the state will eliminate its tipped minimum wage, the below-standard wage paid to workers hourly who are expected to make up the difference in tips.
Prompting this change is a July ruling from Court of Claims Judge Douglas Shapiro. Shapiro ruled the Michigan Legislature acted unconstitutionally in 2018 when it adopted legislation created through a petition initiative originally intended to enact the wage changes, but in the same session amended the language to put in lower wage thresholds that increased the minimum wage to $12.05 by 2030 instead of 2022 and kept the tipped minimum wage at 38% of the standard one. He stayed the ruling until Feb. 19 to give employers time to implement the changes.
The looming change is a sudden jump from the state's current hourly minimum wage of $9.87 per hour and $3.75 per hour for tipped workers.
Whitmer said she’s heard serious concerns from employers about the wage change and is supportive of lawmakers passing legislation — possibly as soon as the lame-duck session — to slow the pending increases down.
“I’m hearing concerns from employers,” Whitmer said in a Tuesday interview with the Free Press. “The very employers that the Legislature was supposedly trying to help” with its “adopt and amend” tactic with a ballot proposal, “they’ve now put in a terrible position,” she said. “A lot of (employers) are worried,” now that the courts have ruled the tactic unconstitutional, and they are faced with a much more sudden jump in the minimum wage than they would have had to confront if the ballot proposal had been left as it was. “I understand that,” Whitmer said.
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But with control of the Michigan Legislature flipping to Democrats in January for the first time in decades, it’s unclear if a solution to the adopt-and-amend ruling will be reached during the so-called lame-duck session before power changes hands at the start of next year.
“The lame duck agenda is still being discussed, but with the results of the election last week it seems unlikely Democrats will be inclined to consider any major policy matters until the new year,” Matt Sweeney, a spokesperson for current Sen. Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, said over email. Sen. Aric Nesbitt, a Lawton Republican who is poised to become minority leader next year, said he wasn’t familiar with any discussion on changes to minimum wage currently taking place.
Attempts to reach House GOP leaders, as well as incoming Democratic leadership, were unsuccessful.
Shapiro’s July ruling was appealed by the state — oral arguments are set to take place at the Michigan Court of Appeals Dec. 13.
Brian Calley, president and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan, said the adopt-and-amend issue likely will have to be heard by the Michigan Supreme Court for a final determination. The court previously declined to take up the issue in December 2019, MLive reported.
SBAM is one of several organizations to file briefs in support of the state’s appeal. Calley, who was also lieutenant governor in Michigan from 2011 to 2019, said it’s unclear if the incoming Democratic leadership would prioritize adopt-and-amend before the Feb. 19 deadline, given the state of flux Lansing will be in.
“I think the dynamics of lame duck are dramatically different now that the majority is changed in the House and the Senate," Calley said. “With majorities as small as they are on both sides of the Capitol, I think that it will be difficult to do anything that comes with controversy.”
The Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association also filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the state in its appeal of Shapiro’s ruling. MRLA President and CEO Justin Winslow said the organization is “operating with the assumption at this point there will be a very limited lame duck session.”
Democratic leaders, who have not held majorities in the Legislature for decades, will likely spend the first weeks of the new session assigning committee leadership and tackling major policy goals, Calley added. Goals already outlined by Democratic lawmakers include addressing Michigan’s right-to-work laws, abortion access and gun laws, among other priorities.
Whitmer said it would “perhaps” be easier to pass such legislation with the current Republican-controlled Legislature than with the Democratic House and Senate that take office in January.
“That is certainly something that might make sense to get done in lame duck,” she said.
There are conversations underway at the staff level with the current legislative leaders, but it’s not clear what the terms of any legislation to slow the minimum wage increase would be, or how much negotiation would be required, she said. But Whitmer did not appear optimistic the Legislature would take up the issue before the end of the year.
“Some representations have been made that perhaps they’re not interested in doing a whole lot,” during the lame-duck session, she said. “We’ll see.”
“What does the ultimate ideal solution look like? I have not prejudged it. I am open to having that conversation," Whitmer said. "I have always supported increasing the minimum wage, and workers’ rights. I think that’s very important. I also am a reasonable person who’s willing to entertain that conversation. If people of goodwill want to try to figure out a solution that everyone can live with, I’m open to it.”
Advocates for raising Michigan’s minimum wage say it would lead to better economic outcomes for workers in Michigan. Those earning wages through tips, mostly in the hospitality industry, wouldn’t have to rely on the generosity of their patrons to make a living, proponents say.
Seven states currently set minimum wage levels for tipped workers at the same level as non-tipped workers: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Alaska and Minnesota, according to the Economic Opportunity Funders Network, a national organization that advocates for economic equity.
Business advocacy groups say the changes to the state’s wage scale, however, would levy additional costs on employers. Winslow said the MRLA expects somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 restaurant jobs to be lost if the tipped minimum wage is replaced. As of September, there were 395,000 people working in the leisure and hospitality industry in Michigan, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In addition to the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act, the law the Legislature used to amend the 2018 minimum wage petition, Shapiro’s ruling also reverted the Earned Sick Time Act. The initial petition language that led to the Earned Sick Time Act would have required employers with fewer than 10 employees to allow employees to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick time annually and employers with 10 or more employees to accrue up to 72 hours of paid sick time per year.
The Legislature amended the petition to remove requirements for employers with fewer than 50 employees.
Asked if the paid leave provisions also need to be slowed, Whitmer said the two issues need to be looked at “in concert,” but employers seem especially concerned about the wage provisions, particularly a dramatic jump in the wages for tipped workers.
“It bears refreshing everyone’s recollection that this was the Legislature that took action to thwart the will of the people and plunged the whole state into this kind of unknown territory,” she said.
“People should be mad at that Legislature. They were messing around and now there is a mess for us to try to figure our way out of, or through.”
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EAST LANSING — Effrem Reed looked outside and saw the ground coated in white. Snow had fallen near the banks of the Red Cedar River, which caused the south Louisiana native to groan.
“I’m not used to it,” he sighed.
But the Michigan State football running backs coach was in good spirits nonetheless, buoyed by the recent upsurge in production generated by the Spartans’ ground attack. For the first time this season, MSU rushed for more than 100 yards in consecutive Big Ten games during a pair of victories over Illinois and Rutgers.
The improved results have offered further confirmation that the fortunes of Mel Tucker’s program are directly tied to the performance of the players tasked with carrying the ball. They also serve as painful reminders that these positive returns didn’t come soon enough, which has become a source of regret for a team still striving to attain bowl eligibility less than a year after winning 11 times.
“If you can run the ball on your terms,” Reed said, “you can have success.”
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Before November rolled around, Michigan State could not meet that objective, and the Spartans careened off track. The glaring shortcomings in the rushing attack polluted MSU’s winning formula, affecting all sectors of the team. The passing game wasn’t nearly as effective, with the play-action component removed from the equation. The offense, in turn, couldn’t sustain momentum and relinquished the ball soon after getting it. That left the defense in a bind as it was left to combat more plays and face a higher probability of being exposed. All of it led to calamitous outcomes, as MSU lost five of its first six games against Power Five competition.
The losses stung.
But they were part of a noticeable trend. Under Tucker, MSU is 3-10 when it fails to gain at least 100 yards on the ground. In contrast, the Spartans are 15-2 when they surpass that benchmark. The dichotomy is best explained by noting how the program thrived when it had a reliable courier like Kenneth Walker III in its backfield and sputtered in the other two years when it did not. The void left by Walker, one of the NFL’s most promising rookies, still hasn’t been filled in the 11½ months since he last played for MSU.
Reed hinted that Walker’s replacements, transfers Jalen Berger and Jarek Broussard, didn’t fully grasp the team’s blocking patterns or trust what they saw on a down-to-down basis with the wide-zone concepts that became the entry point to some of Walker’s most memorable highlights. The slow learning progression impeded their performance until now.
“They’re starting to get more comfortable with the offense,” Reed said, “and know the scheme to anticipate calls.”
All of it gives MSU a boost as it heads down the final stretch with a postseason berth on the line. Quarterback Payton Thorne figures to be the greatest beneficiary of both Berger and Broussard’s development. Between Weeks 4 and 6, when the team lost three times and MSU and totaled for 145 rushing yards, Thorne only hit on 1 of his 7 throws traveling 20 or more air yards and one of those errant attempts resulted in an interception. But in the last two games, when MSU has averaged 154.5 yards on the ground, he has connected on 5 of 10 passes in the same depth range and two of those completions have produced touchdowns.
Speaking of opposing defenses, Thorne said, “You get more guys committed to the run and more guys closer to the line of scrimmage, it opens things up down the field and receivers are doing a good job and making plays. … Those two are tied together.”
All of it explains why Tucker bemoaned the absence of “complementary football” at the team’s low points this season and has praised its return since the team’s rebound these past two weeks. In the end, he understood that MSU would only go as far as its rushing offense. So, too, did Elijah Collins, the redshirt senior who has been in the Spartans’ backfield in 2018.
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“It’s definitely made it clear you have to run the ball in the Big Ten,” Collins said, “because when you’re not running the ball it’s hard to do anything else. Being able to establish the run game and go out there and run the ball is very vital to success.”
That point was driven home throughout this season, during the period when MSU began to crumble and in the recent stretch when they started to reassemble everything. The glue holding it together is the group of players who answer directly to Reed, whose days are getting brighter now even as the dark of winter approaches.
Contact Rainer Sabin at rsabin@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @RainerSabin.
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Halloween is long gone and we're days away from Thanksgiving, so it's safe to start watching animated Christmas classics on TV without judgement. Most of our holiday favorites are back on network TV or cable this year, but one beloved special will be missing.
Here's when and where you can catch the classics airing around the Thanksgiving holiday. For diehards who can't get enough, some of these will air over and over on multiple channels, so check TV listings for additional times.
For decades, the network television airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" around Thanksgiving was an unofficial ringing in of the holiday season. The tradition was threatened in 2020 after Apple acquired "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Fears were calmed when PBS was able to air the specials in 2020 and 2021. Unfortunately for Peanuts fans, the tradition is threatened again. PBS was not given the rights to air "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" this year. However, Apple TV+ will allow nonsubscribers to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" for free from Dec. 22 through Dec. 25.
'Frosty the Snowman'
Santa is keeping his promise. Frosty the Snowman will return again this year. The tale of the jolly, happy soul will air at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25 on CBS. It'll be immediately followed by "Frosty Returns." Come on, Frosty. We're all waiting for you.
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'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
Rudolph and his shining red nose get another chance to save Christmas when the beloved special airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29 on CBS.
'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'
The Grinch, with a heart two sizes too small, will try to steal Christmas when the Dr. Seuss tale airs at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 on TBS.
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'The Year Without a Santa Claus'
Will sad Santa cancel Christmas? Thankfully we'll find out early when "The Year Without a Santa Claus" airs 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 on TBS.
'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
Halloween Town's Jack Skellington stumbles into Christmas Town and all it's bright colors at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22 on Freeform.
'The Little Drummer Boy'
"The Little Drummer Boy" is based on the song of the same name, but the TV special details the young drummer's emotional journey and the only gift he has to offer a baby who may be able to help heal his injured lamb. You'll probably want to set your DVR for this one because it's airing at 1:30 a.m. Dec. 2 and 7 a.m. Dec. 3 on Freeform.
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An online travel guide announced its picks for the top 50 travel recommendations for 2023, and Detroit made the top 10.
Travel Lemming picks its best destinations around the world each year. Detroit, no. 10 for 2023, was among 20 U.S. locations in the top 50, the guide calling it "one of the country's best-kept secrets."
Visit Detroit President and CEO Claude Molinari said the decision marks a positive step in growing Detroit's tourism industry.
"Visit Detroit proudly embraces our role in attracting millions of visitors every year, and now that Travel Lemming has named Detroit one of the best places to travel in 2023, we look forward to welcoming even more."
Travel Lemming attributes Detroit's appeal to its arts and culture scene and rich history. The guide pointed to Detroit's restaurants, craft breweries and cocktail bars as some of city's "best elements."
Detroit's restaurant scene has many cultural cuisine options from African to Mediterranean fare to the taquerias in Southwest Detroit. Restaurants in the downtown area include fine-dining places like the Highlands at the top of the Renaissance Center with sweeping views of Canada and the Detroit River.
One of the guide's recommended food items is Detroit-style pizza, known by metro Detroiters for decades. Detroit-style pizza is known for its thick crust and square or rectangular shape, with lacey caramelized cheese edges and sauce spooned on top. Longtime favorites in the area include Buddy's, Cloverleaf, Loui's Pizza and Shield's.
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Detroit is known worldwide for its historic role in the auto industry, the Motown music scene and well-known sports teams. Recommended attractions include the Motown Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Eastern Market, the Detroit Riverfront and Belle Isle.
Eastern Market has been around more than 130 years and known as a spot on Saturday's year-round to shop for farm fresh produce, a variety of locally made food items and other vendors. Around the market there's also a variety of restaurants that have been around for decades.
Travel Lemming writer Brooke Horrobin said she enjoyed the appeal of the city, noting its charming character and residents.
"Out of all the cities I've visited, Detroit has a huge piece of my heart," Horrobin said. "It's not often you visit a big city outside of where you live that feels like home, and this is how I would sum up Detroit in a nutshell."
Travel Lemming advises May to October, or December, as ideal times to visit Detroit.
Travel Lemming's top location to visit for 2023 is Lafayette, Louisiana. The rest of the top five were Bhutan, a country in Southeast Asia; Utila, an island in the Caribbean nation of Honduras; Île Sainte-Marie, an island off Madagascar; and Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe.
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Tim Allen is putting on his red suit again. The “Home Improvement” star is bringing the “Santa Clause” franchise into the streaming age with a family-friendly series for Disney+, which is debuting its first two episodes Wednesday.
“The Santa Clauses” returns Allen to the role of regular-guy Scott Calvin, who was forced by circumstances to take over the job of the North Pole’s most famous resident in the 1994 hit movie “The Santa Clause.” That led to two more films and, now, a small-screen spin-off.
What else do you need to know about this latest gig for the former metro Detroiter who’s the voice of the Pure Michigan ad campaign? Beyond that, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ annual TV takeover? Here’s the scoop.
What’s the show about? After spending nearly three decades at global gift-giving, Calvin is ready to take a buyout, so to speak, and spend more time with his family. But quitting is no piece of fruitcake, as the “The Santa Clauses” trailer reveals. “I retired too soon. I hired the wrong guy. I’ve got to go back to the North Pole,” says Allen’s character. And no, he’s not talking about Elon Musk.
Who else is in the cast? Besides Allen, the actors include Elizabeth Mitchell (aka Mrs. Claus), Kal Penn, Austin Kane, Matilda Lawler, Rupali Tedd and Devin Bright.
Aren’t you forgetting someone? Oh yeah, one of the supporting roles is played by Allen’s 13-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Allen-Dick. The actor told Entertainment Tonight that he originally thought she could be a background elf, but she won the role of Calvin’s daughter, Sandra, with her audition. “She drilled a very difficult mood joke and she kept on it all the way through. They said, 'We're going to let her read some other people,' and then they gave her the part!”
And what about Bernard the Elf? Good news for fans who were disappointed that actor David Krumholtz had to pass on being in 2006's “The Santa Clause 3” because of his role on the CBS crime procedural “Numb3rs." Krumholtz is back for one episode of the new series, according to numerous reports. “The Santa Clauses” creator Jack Burditt told TV Line that “he plays a pivotal part in teaching Scott some things that maybe he didn’t know, either about the mantle of Santa Claus or himself.”
How is he different as Kris Kringle 28 years later? Allen joked to People, “I look younger now in the Santa makeup than I do out of it."
How did “The Santa Clause” movies fare at the box office? The 1994 original film connected with audiences and earned more than $145 million domestically and $190 million globally. The New York Times review opined: “It may be early for Christmas, but it's not too early for a clever, entertaining children's film with a realistic edge and a minimum of seasonal mush. 'The Santa Clause' easily transports Tim Allen from success on television … to bright prospects on the big screen.” The 2002 sequel, “The Santa Clause 2,” did almost as well financially, earning about $139 million domestically and nearly $173 worldwide. Even the disappointing 2006 follow-up, “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause,” earned around $84 million domestically and almost $173 million worldwide.
And what went wrong with “The Santa Clause 3”? Allen told the Hollywood Reporter that it was a case of becoming “infected by our own success.” Said Allen, “By No. 3, all we had was money. The story kind of just got bigger and bigger. And the fact that Marty Short and I never did a scene together that was funny, I’m still going, huh. That’s the funniest human being I’ve ever been around, other than me, and we never got a shot to do a real big scene together.”
Which famous quarterback has a cameo? Spoiler alert: In the short version of the trailer shown at the D23 fan event, Peyton Manning was seen interviewing to become the replacement Santa. What?? Did anyone see how good Matt Stafford was at yelling "Pizza! Pizza!" in his Little Caesars commercial?
First two episodes now on Disney+. Additional episodes will arrive on Wednesdays through Dec. 14.
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A funeral home that served the Dearborn community for nearly 100 years closed its doors last month when the owner retired.
Querfeld Funeral Home announced the closure on itswebsite, effective Oct. 22. The website said the closure was "due to the retirement of William N. Querfeld," the home's owner.
According to the website, the Querfeld Funeral Home was started in 1925. The Querfelds were originally farmers, with land along the Rouge River. After Henry Ford convinced the family to sell the property, two of the Querfeld brothers started an ambulance business, and that eventually morphed into the funeral home business.
On the website, they left a thank-you message to Dearborn and the surrounding communities.
"Providing funeral service over the years has been an honor and privilege," the company posted on its website. "It has been a difficult decision to close the funeral home; but when one door closes, another opens. We will miss all the wonderful families we came to know over the years.
"Querfeld Funeral Home Inc. served Dearborn area families for 98 years, 1925-2022. We were honored to be a part of the rich history of this community. Thank you Dearborn and surrounding communities for the past 98 years!"
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Three Orchard Lake St. Mary's students and their families claim a Catholic school rule that bars boarding school students coming from Archdiocese of Detroit or Lansing schools from immediately participating in sports if they transfer schools discriminates against students, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court.
They say the rule discriminates against students from majority Black areas. The three students and their families are suing the Archdiocese of Detroit and Catholic High School League. The students, all sophomores, attend Orchard Lake St. Mary's Prep, a private Catholic school in Orchard Lake and transferred to the school in 2022. All three wanted to participate in athletics after they transferred, either in basketball or football.
At the center of the lawsuit is a Catholic High School League rule that states, "Transfer students into Boarding schools who are members of the Catholic League shall be eligible immediately... only if they transfer from a residence/school that is not in the Diocese of Detroit or Lansing."
"These are these are archaic, discriminatory rules that they've set up that are having a disparate impact on minority populations, especially African Americans," Jon Marko, the attorney representing the three families, said. "There's just no question about it."
The Catholic High School League and Archdiocese of Detroit did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Under the rule, students have to wait a period of as few as 90 days to as many as 180 days to play. According to the lawsuit, the superintendent of Archdiocese of Detroit said in 2020 that the rule was intended to "level the playing field."
Jayden Savoury, one of the Orchard Lake St. Mary's students suing, said he was excited to play basketball at his new school until his coach informed him he could not.
"It was a little frustrating because I couldn't get to play a sport that I loved," he said.
Jayden's dad, Mark Savoury, said high academic standards attracted the family to Orchard Lake St. Mary's, but the athletics rule, enforced by the Catholic High School League, not the school, came as an unwelcome surprise.
Their lawsuit claims the rule violates the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, a Michigan law which prohibits discrimination based on religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, or marital status.
The students and their parents in an interview said that they worried being barred from athletics for what amounts to a season could affect scholarship possibilities in the future. Isaiah Hines, one of the student plaintiffs in the suit, said he was worried missing a season could "mess up our future."
The suit also claims that Bob Pyles, headmaster of St. Mary's, told the archdiocese and Catholic High School League about the rule in August 2022 in a written memo that St. Mary's would not enforce the rule because it violated Fair Housing Laws in Michigan.
In response, officials threatened to throw the school out of the league, the lawsuit claims. The suit is asking a judge to stop the rule and allow the student athletes to compete immediately.
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A state advisory group whose mission is to keep Michigan competitive and central to the automotive industry has issued a new set of recommendations ranging from boosting public transit routes and electrifying buses to creating hydrogen fuel cell corridors on major highways along with more job training related to electric vehicles.
The recommendations come in a 33-page report Wednesday from the Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification, which was created by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Trevor Pawl, Michigan’s chief mobility officer and head of the Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification, touted the goals of the council, made up of representatives from the auto industry, including Ford Motor Co., General Motors, Stellantis, Toyota and Rivian; the UAW; universities; advocacy groups, and government officials.
“Michigan’s mobility future is bright because we are focused on responsive policy that meets the needs of our workers, companies, and communities. A state that focuses on new policy frameworks that account for future mobility scenarios will have the agility to hold leadership positions as the transportation landscape rapid evolves,” Pawl said in a news release, which noted that the council would be working with legislators over the next year to implement the recommendations.
That's likely to be an easier sell with Democrats gaining control of the Legislature after the general election this month.
The recommendations cover a wide array. Boosting public transportation specifically through bus rapid transit, sometimes called light rail on wheels, for instance, would be part of an effort to improve equity in mobility. Bus rapid transit could include dedicated bus lanes as well as better infrastructure to make buses significantly more efficient.
The report said bigger public transit budgets would help communities add more bus routes and hire more drivers, ultimately making public transit more accessible in a state that has long been lacking compared with other states.
Better funding for public transportation also would show "the state isn’t just a car-based society" but one that includes a wide range of options for getting around, according to the report.
Pawl noted during a Zoom briefing Wednesday that the state could better compete with economically robust parts of the country by investing in public transit just as those regions have.
The group would also like to see more consumer incentives for electric vehicles, noting that Whitmer has previously proposed rebates for both EV purchases and charging infrastructure.
“Michigan needs long-term, fully funded incentive programs to help ... ensure that all Michiganders are benefiting from EV charging deployment,” the report said, noting that combining the governor’s proposal with the federal tax credit could mean consumers saving up to $10,000 on the purchase of new EVs and chargers that meet eligibility requirements.
The report also calls for funding a $45 million bus electrification program that officials said would support the deployment of 80 electric buses.
Pawl noted that the demand already exists, pointing out that in 2022, 71 school districts in the state had applied for about $104 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Bus Program.
“If all grants were awarded 290 electric school buses would be on Michigan roads providing cleaner, healthier, more sustainable pupil transportation,” according to the report.
The report isn’t just committed to expanded electrification in the transportation sector, however.
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“In the transportation sector, Michigan should support all zero-emission powertrains, includingbattery electric vehicles (BEV) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). It is difficult to predicttechnological advancements and the implications of these advancements,” the report said, noting that the state should pursue federal funding to build out a network of hydrogen fueling stations on I-75 from the Ohio border to Detroit, I-94, I-96 and I-69.
The idea lines up with a push from some in the auto industry. The report included a quote from Derek Caveney, a senior executive engineer with Toyota, noting that “Toyota believes a diverse array of vehicles is the fastest way to achieve the ultimate goal of carbon neutrality."
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Detroit played a role in Tuesday's Grammy nominations, with four mentions in the jazz categories.
Bassist, bandleader and Ferndale native Ron Carter, 85, was nominated along with the Jazzaar Festival Big Band directed by Christian Jacob for “Remembering Bob Freedman” in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category. Carter, 85, is one of the genre’s most revered living figures; last month, PBS premiered a documentary about his life and work.
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“In good company yet again,” Carter wrote in a Facebook post after the nominations were announced.
Recognition was also given to another living legend, saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, for his “Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival,” a recording of his set during the annual event’s 2017 entry released this fall. Shorter, alongside drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, bassist Esperanza Spalding and pianist Leo Genovese, received a Best Jazz Instrumental Album nomination. In the performance, Genovese filled in for beloved Detroit pianist Geri Allen, who died of cancer a few months prior to the festival.
Shorter and Genovese are also nominated in the Best Improvised Jazz Solo category for their work on the track “Endangered Species.”
Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation President and Artistic Director Chris Collins recalled the day the album was recorded.
“I remember that beautiful night in 2017 at the Detroit Jazz Festival,” he said. “Like many momentous events, the vibe was heavy. There was reverence for the master Wayne. There was sadness for the recent passing of Detroit icon Geri Allen, who was scheduled to be on the set. And there was joy as this family of artists gathered onstage in celebration of Wayne, Geri’s legacy and the beauty inspired by the unique intersection of their individual lives and artistry.
“The result was an unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime set shaped by intuitive spontaneity, infused with love and embraced by the special audience and spirit of the Detroit Jazz Festival.”
Drummer Carrington, who serves as artistic director for Detroit’s Carr Center, also has a second nomination in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category, for her “New Standards Vol. 1,” a tribute to female musicians and songwriters in jazz. She shares that nomination with pianist Kris Davis, bassist Linda May Han Oh, trumpeter Nicholas Payton and guitarist Matthew Stevens.
The 65th annual Grammy Awards will be presented Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.
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A new four-story apartment building has been proposed in Midtown Detroit on land where there is now a pair of unused solar panel arrays.
The 57-unit building would be built at 3740 Second Ave., next to the existing Brainard Apartments building that was damaged in a February 2020 fire and is just starting to welcome tenants again.
The two solar-panel arrays, which date to the early 2010s, once supplied some electricity to the Brainard Apartments at 484 Brainard. Since the fire, the solar panels have stayed off.
The project's developer is Greatwater Opportunity Capital, which acquired the site and the neighboring fire-damaged Brainard Apartments in late 2020. Greatwater owns several other apartment buildings and planned new housing developments in the area.
The developer also is now nearly finished with rehabbing the 45-unit Brainard Apartments.
The proposed building is adjacent to the Willis-Selden Historic District. Members of the Detroit Historic District Commission voted Wednesday night that the new building would have a "beneficial" impact on the area, not an adverse impact.
The developer plans to remove the idled solar panels to make way for the new building. The building would have 33 studio apartments (370 square-feet each), 24 one-bedroom units (550 square feet), plus ground-floor commercial space.
A full 20% of the apartments would be reserved at below-market rents for income-eligible renters. The remaining apartments would be "workforce housing" for those making below 120% of the area median income, which could work out to about $1,150 per month in rent for the studio units and $1,400 for the one-bedrooms.
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Residents would park on a future surfacing parking lot east of the new building.
“We are excited to bring more workforce housing to the neighborhood," Matt Temkin, partner with Greatwater Opportunity Capital, said. “If all goes well, we are looking to break ground early next year.”
Aging solar
The solar panels were installed by the previous owners of the vacant lot and the Brainard Apartments.
One of the former owners, Randy Lewarchik, said in a phone interview Wednesday that the solar panels were installed about a decade ago and became slightly less efficient each passing year as they aged.
The panels generated some, but far from all, of the electricity used in the Brainard Apartments.
"The building required so much more energy than the solar panels would generate," he recalled. “It definitely made a difference in common area lighting and things like that, but in a northern climate like Michigan … it’s hard to be off the grid with intermittent energy.
"The panels themselves, they had a little readout on them of how many tons of CO2 you were offsetting," Lewarchik added. "So it did give you some warm fuzzies; 'Well, at least we’re not burning coal.' "
The Brainard Apartments building was heavily damaged in the February 2020 electrical fire and all tenants had to leave.
Greatwater Opportunity Capital went on to buy the uninhabited building and the vacant lot with the solar panels for $2.95 million in December 2020 in a package deal.
Also Wednesday, the historic commission went along with a plan for a new four-story, 53-unit affordable housing building at 10201 Woodward Ave., across from the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament church.
The developer is MHT Housing Inc., and all of the units would be two-bedroom apartments.
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It was about midway into the first half when Michigan basketball decided they were simply done missing shots.
After falling behind by eight points just a few minutes into Wednesday night's battle with Pittsburgh, U-M went on a tear in the first half. At one point the Wolverines made eight consecutive shots, which came as part of a 20-9 run.
They would put together another 24-7 run in the second half as they cruised to a 91-60 victory in the opening round of the Legends Classic in Brooklyn, New York.
The Wolverines, who were led by Jett Howard with 17 points, Joey Baker and Kobe Bufkin with 14 apiece and Hunter Dickinson with 11 points and seven rebounds, will face the winner of No. 14 Arizona State and VCU on Thursday at 9 p.m in the tournament championship.
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He assisted Kobe Bufkin on a mid-range jumper to open U-M's scoring, made the team's next bucket, assisted Jaelin Llewellyn on a slashing lay-in the following trip down and swatted a shot which led to a fastbreak conversion for Jett Howard to trim the eight-point deficit to two.
He would later add consecutive layups to give Michigan its first lead, 17-16.
It wasn't long after that Howard got going. The freshman made a pull-up jumper, then after a Tarris Reed Jr. layup, made a layup of his own and another jumper to put the Wolverines up by five.
The freshman picked up his third foul of the game on Pittsburgh's next trip down and started walking to the bench as he waited for this father to replace him. Instead, Juwan Howard motioned him back onto the court, but he fell asleep on the inbound pass, and as the tried to recover, fouled Greg Elliott on a 3-point try.
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Pittsburgh cut the lead to after the four-point play by Elliott, the Detroit East English Village product, but that's when Bufkin and Terrance Williams took over.
Williams, a captain, scored five in a row on long ball from the wing and a hard-earned fastbreak layup to put Michigan up by 11. Llewellyn scored the next four Michigan points, before Bufkin made three critical plays in a row; the first when he converted on two free throws, the next an and-one scooping lefty layup and finally a no-look pass from the top of the key to Dickinson for an and-one layup.
Freshman Dug McDaniel, who'd struggled in the first two games of his career, flashed his potential in a flurry in the second half. He scored eight points and had a team-high eight assists, multiple of which led to uncontested dunks for Reed.
Baker, the grad transfer from Duke who battled foul trouble on Friday at LCA, had his best game of the early season by shooting 5 of 6 from the floor and 4 of 5 from the 3-point line. U-M hit 9-of-20 on 3s.
Michigan played by far their cleanest game of the season, making 11 of his first 14 shots after halftime and finishing 18-for-25 (72%) from the floor in the second 20 minutes.
U-M outrebounded Pittsburgh, 36-30, had 21 assists compared to Pittsburgh's 11, and had a season-low six turnovers (the majority of which came in the final three minutes with reserves on the court) compared to 13 for the Panthers.
Michigan held Pittsburgh to 42% shooting form the field and 30% from the 3-point line.
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At the halfway point and almost $300 million into the Detroit Institute of Arts’ tax millage from residents in the tri-county area, concerned members of Detroit’s art scene are questioning whether citizens have gotten their money’s worth.
Voters in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties agreed to a levy — initially proposed as a 10-year, one-time tax, but then renewed in 2020 — to help bolster the museum’s budget and support its operations while it funneled donation efforts to its endowment fund. Wayne County alone has collected more than $90 million from residents since 2012 through this millage.
In exchange, the museum agreed to a nearly identical service agreement with each of the counties. In Wayne County, the Wayne County Art Institute Authority (WCAIA) requires the museum to fulfill certain benefits for residents — like free admission and school trips. But some say the agreement is too vague and oversight too lax to keep the DIA engaging with the community as much as other renowned metropolitan museums.
Of Wayne County’s $92.4 million pool, about $6 million has gone to programs outlined in the service agreement, like its Inside Out art installations and Thursdays at the Museum senior program. The rest of county tax dollars has been used by the DIA at its own discretion for operational expenses. The current agreement will expire next year and can be renegotiated for the next 10 years.
This article was produced in partnership with Outlier Media, a news organization that runs a text messaging service to share critical information with Detroiters. Text "Detroit" to 67485 for information and resources.
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Spearheading an effort for heightened accountability for the museum is Steve Panton, a Detroit resident and active member of the city’s art scene. He questions whether the authority is ensuring the DIA is returning on residents’ investment by providing a world-class experience and contributing to the city’s creative ecosystem.
“My previous job allowed me to travel a lot around the world. Everywhere I went, I went to an art institute,” said Panton, who co-founded Essay’d, a Detroit-based arts education and advocacy publication. “I became increasingly concerned that the DIA wasn't performing at a level that was consistent with the funding that they were getting.”
Panton points to other art institutions in similarly sized cities to illustrate what he says is the DIA’s insufficient connection with the art community. The Minneapolis Institute of Art serves a smaller metropolitan population (3.7 million compared to Detroit’s 4.4 million), and generates significantly less revenue than the DIA. It maintains about the same number of employees, but displayed more than double the number of exhibits that the DIA did between 2018 through November 2022.
“The DIA has a great collection, it has a great facility, but right now it's not doing enough programming beyond this,” he said. “In simple terms, it has virtually no programming beyond just displaying the permanent collection.”
The Detroit Free Press and Outlier Media made multiple requests to the DIA for an interview with leadership over the course of four weeks. They declined.
A DIA spokesperson instead referred to a 2021 publication by the museum’s director Salvador Salort-Pons and board chairman Eugene Gargaro. In it, Pons and Gargaro write:
“The millage has transformed our museum from an often inward-looking one to one that MUST serve its community, from the third graders in the Detroit Public Schools Community District who visit the museum on free field trips, to the residents of Eastpointe, whose downtown will be enlivened by a community co-created mural that will remain for decades to come.”
Pons and Gargaro also cite the millage as critical in allowing the museum's endowment fund to grow from $124 million in 2016 to $305 million in 2021.
“The reality is, for $10 million a year, the people of Wayne County should get spectacular service – this is a huge amount of money – and yet they're getting a service which is at the bottom of the heap in comparison to similar institutions in other cities,” Panton said. “The people of Wayne County deserve more.”
Halima Cassells, an interdisciplinary artist based in Detroit, said the museum could — and should — improve its relations with local artists by offering more opportunities.
“I don't want to take anything away from them because I think it's important that we do have a tier-one museum that elevates art from all over the world,” she said. “But Detroiters and Detroit creators and Michigan creators should also have several ways to engage." Cassells would like to see the county require the museum to include a certain amount of local art in its collections or exhibits in the next service agreement.
Alongside offering more opportunities for collaboration, Cassells said the DIA also needs to create a more welcoming space for artists.
“When you do have that much prestige, it can make it more daunting for folks to step up and come in the door and be their best because they're already in this kind of position of like, ‘Do I belong here?’” she said.
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Sparse public records, board processes
The original service agreement, crafted by the DIA’s legal team, outlines each entity’s responsibilities and benefits for residents. In the agreement, both entities have agreed to allot at least $150,000 for field trip transportation, $300,000 for community collaborations and $100,000 for senior programming.
“I think that people assume that with the millage, there is a body that is negotiating for them and looking after their interests. And the answer is, there is a body that's supposed to be doing that, but isn't doing that,” self-appointed watchdog Steve Panton said, adding that the new service agreement should include the framework for a participatory budgeting process.
The WCAIA meets four times a year. In each meeting, the authority reviews programming slated for the calendar year ahead and evaluates the county’s investments compared to the amounts proposed in the service agreement, and the DIA delivers reports on Wayne County admission rates and school field trips as well.
The nine-member body currently has eight positions filled with an opening for its ninth seat: Three seats are filled by the county executive and six are chosen by the Wayne County Commission. There is no formalized process to apply to sit on the authority — leaving the ninth seat empty for the foreseeable future.
Public record of the authority's activities is sparse. The body is subject to the Open Meetings Act, meaning it should publicize meeting notices and maintain meeting minutes, but was not fulfilling these requirements until 2020.
“Our faults are errors of omission,” said Wayne County Commissioner Tim Killeen, who serves as the authority’s vice chair. Killeen emphasized that since becoming aware of the authority’s failings, he’s been working to right them.
The board is also nine years behind on audits of millage spending.
One of the current members of the WCAIA, Renata Seals, also sits on the museum’s board of directors, in apparent conflict with state law that prohibits members of art institute authorities from sitting on governing bodies for the institution they oversee.
Both state law and the WCAIA’s articles of incorporation prohibit members from participating in the governance of the art institute. The county’s service agreement, however, allows for the authority to appoint two voting members onto the museum’s board of directors.
Requests to the board to interview Seals — who is Wayne County Executive Warren Evans’ wife and who he appointed to the authority — were unanswered.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said, “The Wayne County Art Institute Authority (WCAIA) holds the right to appoint two (2) voting members to serve on the Detroit Institute of Art’s (DIA) Board of Directors. … Based upon legal opinion, the WCAIA is well within its rights and law to make appointments to the DIA Board of Directors.”
When asked whether the authority would make an effort to collect public input to consider when renegotiating the service agreement, Killeen was noncommittal, saying that may be beyond the authority’s capacity.
“We got 1.8 million people in Wayne County, how are you going to figure out the best interest of the citizens of Wayne County?” he said. “Wayne County voters have said it's in our best interest to have that museum, we want it financially healthy. And they have their own management over there.”
The museum’s service agreements are set to expire in December 2023, presenting an opportunity for renegotiation for all three counties. The Wayne County Art Institute Authority’s next meeting will be Dec. 19 at 10 a.m., for more information visit its webpage.
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DIA millage at midpoint: Have residents gotten their $300M worth?
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John McCandless, a 32-year Navy veteran, spent a lot of time at Detroit Metro Airport during his time working, and traveling, for Toyota.
Fifteen years ago, he noticed that, unlike other airports, there wasn’t a USO or similar place for active military and veterans to relax in as they traveled through Michigan's largest airport.
Being a champion for those who served, he decided to change that. Others joined him to bring an independent military lounge to life at the airport.
The Michigan Armed Forces Center, also known as Michigan Freedom Center, opened at 11 a.m. Nov. 11, 2011, in the McNamara Terminal, near Gate A43. The group opened a second lounge in 2015 in the Warren C. Evans (North) Terminal near Gate D17.
Since 2011, over 800,000 active duty military members, reservists and military veterans have stopped by. With 19 million veterans in the U.S. and 554,000 veterans in Michigan, according to the American Legion, the need is real.
“It just kind of happened that way,” McCandless, who retired from Toyota 12 years ago, told me about the time, date and year of the first lounge's official debut.
“We have lots of military traveling through here (DTW) on their way to Europe, Okinawa (Japan), Africa or wherever,” McCandless added.
With proper identification, active military and veterans can enjoy the comforts of the two military centers — free of charge. Volunteers and part-time staff provide travel services to ease travel challenges and they also have a special care team to comfort the families of lost loved ones who died serving.
The lounges that help so many faced challenging times brought on by the pandemic, which forced their closure for a few months as well as loss of revenue and volunteers.
Times are better and things are almost back to normal but the board that runs the two lounges is looking for a sponsor to give them a “cushion” to weather any future tough times. They are seeking a sponsor who would get naming rights. Specifics, such as how long it would last, or whether it would include one or two lounges, are being determined.
The American Legion is donating resources and providing volunteers to help staff the centers.
Marilyn Britten, retired Army, who is commander of Michigan's Department of the American Legion, said of the spaces that she also has stopped by while traveling: “It is so needed by military and veteran travelers. ... Just a quiet place to sit, grab a water and gather your thoughts. A safe ... place for families with little ones and a break for parents to catch their breath. I have used it when I have traveled through Metro and it was staffed by a very friendly volunteer with helpful tips for the airport.”
Tom Lang joined the Michigan Freedom Center effort in 2020as community outreach director to add some marketing muscle.
“The funding was dropping fast (due to COVID-19) and the then-executive director was going to move on to another post,” he said. “I began organizing fundraising, public relations and marketing activities. I am one of three part-time staffers. We maintain as low of a staff budget as possible to put our resources into the centers.”
He said more than 100 volunteers work to keep the centers open seven days a week (they work four-hour shifts). “We can always use more people to help with the shifts,” he said.
"We are also continuously fundraising. We have a successful annual golf outing (in the summer months) along with contributions from corporations, military defense contractors, and Delta's big support, plus a couple foundations, along with gifts from individuals — it all helps to keep our doors open," Lang said.
“Delta’s support of active-duty military and veterans in our workforce and the community remains a top priority, and we celebrate the growth of the Michigan Freedom Center military hospitality lounges over the last 11 years,” said Tad Hutcheson, Delta’s managing director, community engagement.
“We’re proud to give back to veterans and their families as they prepare to travel, whether being deployed, returning home from a military assignment or accompanying fallen heroes to prepare for a final journey home.” Delta donated a conference room where the Michigan Freedom Center is still located and it has donated money as well to the organization.
The lounges are a gesture to show active military and veterans how much they are appreciated.
"These military hospitality lounges provide recliners and couches so travelers can have a comfortable place to decompress between flights,” Lang said. “We have tables where they can work on their laptop. We offer Wi-Fi, TV, flight board for tracking planes, water, coffee, tea, snacks, cheese sticks, candy, granola bars, etc. We even have toys for kids.”
He added, “Our goal is to be of service to them as a thank you for their service to us. It’s all very simple, not flashy, but very powerful in their eyes."
For information on the Michigan Freedom Center: www.mifreedomcenter.org.
Contact Carol Cain: 248-355-7126 or clcain@cbs.com. She is senior producer/host of “Michigan Matters,” which airs 8 a.m. Sundays on CBS 62. See Terry Barclay, Sandy Harvey, Sandy Stojkovski, DTE’s Joi Harris and JF Gathier of Startup Genome on this Sunday’s show.
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A place that helps military travelers at Detroit Metro needs help itself
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More than 800 unclaimed gold coins, jewelry and other collectibles are being auctioned off this Saturday at the Quality Suites of Lansing in Delta Township.
"Under Michigan's Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, the Michigan Department of Treasury receives abandoned safe deposit box contents and works to return items to their rightful owners or heirs," according to a news release. "Items that are not reunited with their owners can be sold at auction."
Auctioneer Chuck Cryderman said an auction is held annually by the Michigan Department of Treasury and items usually come safe deposit boxes in dormant bank accounts.
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"Because these properties were considered abandoned and unclaimed by the bank or company entrusted with them, they are turned over to the state, as required by law," according to the Department of Treasury.
Those interested in participating can attend the auction inspection to view the items on Friday from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturday starting at 8 a.m., Cryderman said. The auction itself officially begins Saturday at 9 a.m. and bids can only be placed online until 4 p.m.
Rightful owners and heirs can still claim the proceeds of the auctioned items by submitting an electronic claim form or by calling Michigan Unclaimed Property at 517-636-5320, the news release stated.
To view the auction listing and items, click here.
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Michigan Department of Treasury auctions off more than 800 unclaimed items
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LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she still wants to "fix the damn roads" as she begins her second and final term, but now believes an entirely new funding system is needed, to allow for the growth in electric vehicles and associated drop in gasoline consumption.
"I will not be proposing a 45-cent gas tax (increase); I can say that definitively," Whitmer told the Free Press Tuesday during an interview in her Lansing office.
Whitmer's gas tax proposal in 2019 was a nonstarter in the Republican-controlled Legislature and became an issue in the Nov. 8 election, which Whitmer won by nearly 11 percentage points. Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon repeatedly cited Whitmer's gas tax plan to counter the governor's boast that she had not raised taxes. Dixon said it was not for a lack of trying.
Democrats are poised to take control of both the House and Senate Jan. 1. But Whitmer, who won't be able to seek a third four-year term because of constitutional term limits, said she won't be circling back on the massive gas tax hike as an item of unfinished business.
"It's going to require a major policy change," that can't originate from any one person, she said.
Michigan's road funding primarily comes from fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees, plus $600 million a year from the state's general fund.
In 2020, Whitmer went around the Legislature to get the State Transportation Commission to OK $3.5-billion in bonds to help her step up road repairs. She's also used general funds and Michigan's share of President Joe Biden's $1.2-trillion infrastructure bill to ramp up projects on Michigan roads long known for their poor quality.
But now, a whole new approach is needed, she said.
"We are undergoing a historic transformation from ICE (internal combustion engines) to EVs (electric vehicles) and being able to build out and maintain infrastructure that can support this technology is something that every state in the country is going to grapple with," Whitmer said.
"I think Michigan could show the world what a real solution looks like, but it's not going to come from one person. It's going to have to be a stakeholder-inclusive, bipartisan effort to really design an infrastructure system that is comprehensive and resilient and can last."
The use of gas-powered vehicles is trending downward nationwide as electric vehicles become more affordable and easier to recharge. In Michigan, Whitmer has also made the transition to electric vehicles a central plank of her economic development plan, joining with the Legislature to approve well over $1 billion in incentives for GM, Ford and other companies to build new manufacturing facilities related to batteries and electric vehicles.
Charging motorists based on how many miles they drive might be the most equitable formula, but there are many associated questions related to technology and how such a plan would be implemented, Whitmer said.
"There are thoughts of how it might make sense, but I don't know that there's any perfect solution at this juncture, and that's why I think we've got to get the right people around the table, design it, vet it, and get robust support behind it."
The Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, an industry group dominated by road builders, is doing research that might help lawmakers and others develop a new funding plan, she said.
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Lance Binoniemi, vice president of government affairs at MITA, said Wednesday that a study on how electric vehicles affect road funding is underway, but the details are "not yet ready for public consumption." Expect a report late this winter or early in the spring of 2023, he said.
Whitmer also discussed:
Lame duck: There are a few items she hopes might get done during the lame-duck legislative session that takes place before the new Democratic-controlled Legislature is sworn in with the new year, she said.
On top of that list is legislation to move Michigan's presidential primary to February, from March.
"Michigan is an important state. We should be a bigger player when it comes to national elections," Whitmer said.
It "would be a good thing to get done" during the lame-duck session, because "decisions will get made before the new year as to what states are at what point in the pecking order," she said.
"These decisions are made in D.C., but in order to position Michigan to capitalize on the moment, we would have to get that legislation done before that."
A supplemental spending bill is also possible, but Republican leaders who still control the Legislature have not yet made it clear how much they are willing to do during the lame-duck session, she said.
Using passage of Proposal 3 as an economic development tool: Whitmer said before the election that if the ballot proposal to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution passes, which it did, she wants to go into neighboring anti-choice states such as Indian and Ohio and "eat their lunch," by poaching major industry and talented workers.
Whitmer said discussions to act on those plans are well underway. Plans will likely include TV ads and personal visits by her, Whitmer said.
"I'm excited about the prospect," she said. "I think we're going to have a powerful story to tell."
Whitmer said she's been invited to speak at many university campuses outside Michigan over the last few years, and it might now make sense to accept those invitations.
Foreign trade missions: Whitmer, who made only one foreign trade mission, to Israel in 2019, before the pandemic struck, said she expects to announce trips to Europe and Asia in her second term. Details are still pending with the Michigan Economic Development Corp., she said.
"I think it's important for our state that the chief executive is telling the story and landing investment for Michigan," she said.
Auto insurance reform: Whitmer has acknowledged that the bipartisan legislation she signed during her first term, intended to reduce the cost of no-fault auto insurance, has left many catastrophically injured auto accident victims without adequate care.
Asked whether to expect a fix during her second term, Whitmer said: "I think an earnest conversation will get started, early in the next year."
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MOUNT PLEASANT — Sean Tyler ran for a career-best 177 yards and a touchdown on a career-high 26 carries, Andre Carter had two sacks — including a safety in the closing minutes — and Palmer Domschke kicked a 25-yard field goal with 1:52 to play as Western Michigan rallied to beat Central Michigan, 12-10, on Wednesday night.
Treyson Bourguet was 7 of 19 passing for 102 yards and added 57 yards rushing on 11 carries for the Broncos.
CMU is 4-7 (3-4).
Eastern Michigan 31, Kent State 24
KENT, Ohio — Taylor Powell threw three touchdown passes — two to Tanner Knue in the second half — and Eastern Michigan rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat Kent State, 31-24, on Wednesday night for its fifth straight road win.
Samson Evans ran for 94 yards on 33 carries and his 1-yard touchdown run with 3:51 to play capped an 11-play, 77-yard drive and gave Eastern Michigan (7-4, 4-3 MAC) a 31-17 lead.
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Western Michigan football makes plays late to beat rival CMU, 12-10
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EAST LANSING – To try and solve Michigan State football’s ongoing kicking problem, Mel Tucker last week turned to the rest of his players for help.
As in making noise. Lots of it. Right in their teammates’ faces as they went through an open field goal competition.
“The week has been exciting with that, actually,” wide receiver Jayden Reed said Saturday. “At the end of every practice, we would bring everybody else to run around to distract the kickers. We haven't been doing that all season.”
Ben Patton again earned the job vs. Rutgers, after a windy trip to Illinois resulted in the competition in the first place. The redshirt junior clanged an extra-point attempt in the second quarter and sent a 31-yard field-goal try wide right in the fourth quarter.
MSU hung on to upset the Illini despite Patton. But the competition and commotion calmed him going into Saturday’s game, and the Rochester native delivered fourth-quarter kicks of 34 and 48 yards that ended up the deciding points in a 27-21 victory.
“I really like having the guys in my ear. It kind of helps you drown out the noises in your own head, just having that white noise around you of having a large crowd,” Patton said Saturday after improving to 3-for-5 on field goal tries. “For me, it's more therapeutic than if I just had coach (Mel) Tucker in my ear saying the same stuff. It's a lot better to have the entire crowd there, kind of like it was out there for that 48-yarder. The fans were feeling it, they were excited, and we just went out there and got the job done.”
The Spartans (5-5, 3-4 Big Ten) host Indiana (3-7, 1-6) at noon Saturday in the final home game of the season at Spartan Stadium. Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing with snow possible, which will provide a physically frigid reminder of how far Patton has come in a year.
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The 5-foot-10, 205-pound graduate student transferred to MSU in August after completing his undergraduate degree in business administration and finance at Auburn, where he kicked his first three seasons. A first-team all-state selection at Rochester Adams High in 2018, Patton made both of extra point attempts and took two kickoffs in one game as a freshman in 2019. He served as a holder for five games in 2020 but didn't kick again for the Tigers until last season, making 5-for-6 field goals. That included two in the annual Iron Bowl rivalry against Alabama, including a career-long 49-yarder in the second overtime of Auburn's eventual 24-22 loss in four OTs.
“The weather is probably the biggest difference that you could sense,” Patton said of returning to Michigan from Auburn. “It's nice to get back. My parents are able to come to every game, my brother and just a bunch of family that hasn't been able to see me play being 13 hours away down in Alabama. It's a lot nicer being only an hour away from Rochester.”
Patton arrived at MSU midway through preseason camp and lost the job to Jack Stone, a true freshman. Stone missed two of his three field goal attempts, had another blocked and missed a PAT, and now handles kickoffs. The left-footed Patton made a cameo appearance and made an extra point against Maryland, then took full-time field goal duty in MSU’s win over Wisconsin. He is 11-for-12 on PATs.
Then Saturday, he found himself surrounded by reporters after seemingly stabilizing the kicking spot for now and showed he brought a little bit of the south home with him.
“I didn't get interviewed after the Iron Bowl, unfortunately. This is just kind of a surreal experience kind of looking around and seeing everybody here,” the 21-year-old said. “I feel more comfortable going out there and hitting the 48-yard field already talking in front of y'all.”
MSU ranks 94th nationally in scoring at 24.3 points a game, a big reason teammates embraced the opportunity during practice to try and disrupt and distract Patton, Stone and Stephan Rusnak as they took turns taking field goals.
“Since the whole team has been all eyes on our kicker for the past seven days, Ben hasn't missed one," quarterback Payton Thorne said. “Maybe that's what it takes. But it was huge. We won by six points and had two field goals. It was great to see. So credit to him with sticking through it the whole year.”
Patton said some teammates yelled in their faces, some sprayed water at them, one mocked the piece of tape Bryce Baringer put on the grass to help him with the hold – “He's like, 'That tape's not going to help you.' And I was like, 'Well, it's not for me, it's for the holder,'” Patton quipped.
The goal, though, he understood was to simulate the chaos and commotion of a gameday environment.
“The guys want to get you uncomfortable, because they want you to make your kicks when it really matters,” he said. “Going out there for practice, you can kind of downplay and be like, 'Oh, what's gonna happen if I miss this?' Not really anything - maybe your teammates are upset, maybe you have to run a lap or run down and back.
“But in games, obviously, there's a lot more riding on it. So just being able to have those guys hold you accountable in practice and kind of get on you in that sense allows you to be more locked in when it comes to the big show.”
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Patton also complimented Baringer for his holds and Michael Donovan for his snaps. And he also made sure to point to Jacob Slade’s block of a Rutgers field goal attempt that led to his critical second field goal that was a yard short of his Iron Bowl boot.
“It just emphasizes the importance of special teams," Patton said. "A lot of people harp on the the main four of kickoff, kick return, punt and punt return. But field goal is just as important, and so is field goal block.”
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Michigan State football's Ben Patton blocks out noise for key FGs
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Detroit Pistons (3-12) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (8-7)
Radio: WWJ-AM 950 (Pistons radio affiliates).
Betting line: Clippers by 9½.
Game notes: The Pistons, owners of the Eastern Conference's worst record and losers of four straight, begin a treacherous six-game road trip over nine days out west, with a back-to-back in Los Angeles, starting with the Clippers on Thursday night. They then face the Lakers (Friday), Sacramento Kings (Sunday), Denver Nuggets (Tuesday), Utah Jazz (Wednesday) and Phoenix Suns (Friday) − the Pistons will hit up Golden State and Portland during a five-game road trip that wraps around New Year's Day.
The Pistons hope to have Cade Cunningham back at some point during the excursion, perhaps Sunday in Sacramento. The team's best player has missed three straight games with left shin soreness. Isaiah Stewart however will miss the entire road trip after injuring a toe in Monday's loss to Toronto.
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The Clippers won't have Kawhi Leonard (knee) but do have Paul George (24.4 points per game) and still employ three former Pistons: Reggie Jackson, Marcus Morris and Luke Kennard.
Jackson, 32, has seen his production drop to 10.3 points and 4.1 assists in 15 starts, shooting 29% on 4.1 3-point attempts per game. ... Morris, 33, is averaging 15 points and 5.7 rebounds over his 13 starts, shooting 40.3% on 5.5 3s per game. ... Kennard, 26, is collecting 7.7 points and 2.9 rebounds over 14 games (seven starts), making 47.9% of his 3.4 3s per game. He led the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage last season (44.9% on six attempts per game).
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The holiday season is among us and festivities in metro Detroit this weekend include drive-through light displays, shopping, art and an opportunity to tour homes decorated for the holidays.
Here are some things to do for the weekend of Nov. 18.
Light the Village
The Village of Rochester Hills, an outdoor shopping center, will be kicking off the holiday season with more than 350,000 lights, family-fun entertainment, a visit with Santa (bring your own camera to get your photo with Santa as photographers will not be provided) and a fireworks display.
There will also be live music, food trucks, stilt walkers and jugglers, selfie station, face painting, and arts and crafts compliments of Paint Creek Center for the Arts.
6-9 p.m. Friday at The Village of Rochester Hills, 104 N. Adams in Rochester Hills. Free admission and free shuttle service to and from Adams High School will be available 5:30-9:30 p.m.
2022 Northville Holiday Home Tour
Five privately owned Northville houses that have been decorated for the holidays will be on this holiday home tour. Homes range from historical to downtown Northville to a condominium that boasts an unusual collection.
The tour will also feature a refreshment stop at the Tipping Point Theater in downtown Northville.
The tour takes place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $25 in advance at northvillecommunityfoundation.org. On the day of tour, $30 tickets are available at Ward Church at 40000 Six Mile in Northville. Proceeds will help fund the Northville Community Foundation. No children under the age of 12.
This drive-through light display will feature holiday themed scenes and characters using LED technology and digital animations, including a new prehistoric Christmas, mega tree displays and a 32-foot-tall, animated waving Christmas Barbie. Returning favorites will include the drive-through Blizzard Tunnel, 12 Days of Christmas, Winter Wonderland and The Night Before Christmas.
Opens 5:30 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Nov. 18 to Dec. 31 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston. Standard vehicle passes start at $20.
A 5-mile stretch of Hines Drive will be transformed into a themed experience with nearly 50 animated displays and more than 100,000 lights.
Two food trucks and a large mailbox to mail Santa letters at Perrin Park will be available halfway through the Lightfest.
By tuning into AM 1640 within 3 to 5 miles of the Lightfest entrance, visitors can receive regular updates on wait times, traffic flow, special activities and event cost.
Opens 6-10 p.m. Nov. 17 to Dec. 24 (Wednesday through Sunday only). Entrance to the Lightfest is at Merriman Hollow Park, 7651 North Merriman (between Ann Arbor Trail and Warren) in Westland. Cost is $5 per car.
Royal Oak Market: Art Fair Edition
This juried art show produced by The Guild of Artists and Artisans will feature about 60 artists offering jewelry, ceramics, paintings, glass, photography, fiber and more. The BMW Future Lab + Succulent Bar, live entertainment, food vendors, craft/beer/cider/wine and more will also be at this 7th annual event.
11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday inside the Royal Oak Farmers Market, 316 E. Eleven Mile in Royal Oak. Free admission.
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University of Michigan to invest $300M in socially responsible companies, Ono says
The University of Michigan will invest $300 million of its short-term working capital into companies that follow environmental, social and governance — or ESG — practices, new president Santa Ono said during a speech to the campus Thursday morning.
It will also deposit "significant" sums of its money into community banks in Flint, Dearborn, Ann Arbor and eventually in Detroit in an effort to spur local lending.
Ono made the announcement in-person during a leadership welcome speech in an auditorium at the Ross School of Business. It was his first major speech outlining his priorities since he took over as president in the middle of October. Like his predecessors, he used the occasion to highlight various intitatives underway and new ones coming, and took a few questions from the audience. Unlike his predecessors, he didn't remain on stage during his Q&A time, instead walking up and down aisles to get closer to those asking questions.
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He announced the investment during a section of the speech devoted to talking about his desire for the university to be strongly commited to diversity, equity and inclusion.
“When we talk about DEI, we don’t always think about university finances,” Ono said. “Yet ESG investing and supporting small, local banks are among the many ways we can work more strategically to reinforce and uphold our obligations to create a better and more just world.”
The short-term working capital will be used to make the investments. That's a different pot of money than the university's $17 billion endowment.
To help it make the investments, U-M work with PFM Asset Management and metrics provided by Sustainalytics, a third-party ESG research firm. U-M plans to invest only in the debt securities of high-performing companies that meet a certain ESG rating threshold, the university said in a news release.
“With the capital the university has to invest, there is more we can do than just capture returns,” said Geoffrey Chatas, executive vice president and chief financial officer, in a statement. “We can make a difference, and we can help others make a difference. We just need to find creative ways to use the tools we have. That’s what this is.”
U-M will also deposit tens of millions of dollars into local banks. Initial deposits are being made with ELGA Credit Union in Flint, Dearborn Federal Savings Bank and Bank of Ann Arbor, with additional deposits expected in other financial institutions in the coming months, the school said. This initial phase of the program will center on banks most closely tied to their local communities, university officials said in a news release.
The second phase will focus on working with the banks to develop programs that provide additional benefits to disadvantaged communities because of the university’s involvement through enhanced lending and community engagement, the university said.
Contact David Jesse: 313-222-8851 or djesse@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter: @reporterdavidj
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LOS ANGELES — Bojan Bogdanovic had a good offensive night.
The same can't be said for his teammates.
The veteran wing reached the 20-point threshold for the ninth time in 16 games, and in efficient fashion. But the Detroit Pistons shot 37.5% overall and couldn't find an answer for a Clippers team that caught fire in the second half.
The Clippers defeated the Pistons, 96-91, to start Detroit's six-game West Coast road trip.
Bogdanovic scored 26 points on 55.6% overall shooting (10-for-18) to go with three assists and three rebounds. Jaden Ivey finished with 18 points on 8-for-21 shooting, and Saddiq Bey had 11 points on 4-for-11. Jalen Duren flirted with a double-double with eight points and nine rebounds.
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Former Piston Reggie Jackson led the Clippers with 23 points, and former Piston Marcus Morris Sr. added 16 points.
Clippers star Kawhi Leonard played for the first time since Oct. 23 and scored six points in 24 minutes.
The Pistons held Los Angeles to 42 points on 34.9% overall shooting in the first half, but the Clippers scored 54 points on 47.4% shooting in the second half. Detroit shot 37.5% on the night and was outscored 54-41 in the 2nd half.
Pistons start strong on defense, but struggle offensively
Before Thursday, the Pistons were the NBA’s worst first-quarter team. Per 100 possessions, they ranked last in net rating (minus-18.8) and also were last in field goal percentage (39.9%) and second-to-last in 3-point percentage (29.3%).
Their loss against the Clippers won’t improve their percentages much — they shot 42.1% overall and missed all four of their 3-point attempts. But it was their best defensive quarter of the season, by far. They held Los Angeles to just 15 points on 28.6% overall shooting, both season-lows for any Pistons opponent in the opening period. Detroit led, 23-15, after one.
But they couldn’t sustain it, and by the end of the third quarter, the Clippers held a 68-67 lead after outscoring the Pistons, 26-17, in the period. Los Angeles shot 50% (9-for-18 overall, 4-for-8 from 3) in the period. The Pistons were held to 29.2% overall shooting (7-for-24) and 20% shooting from 3 (2-for-10).
Stewart injury puts Bey back in starting five
Dwane Casey tweaked his rotation on Monday, moving Marvin Bagley III into the starting lineup alongside Isaiah Stewart and moving Saddiq Bey to the bench. Isaiah Stewart’s sprained right big toe, which could cause him to miss up to three weeks, forced Casey to unveil a different starting-five against the Clippers.
Bagley remained in the starting lineup, and Bey was promoted to replace Stewart. Before the game, Casey said he would stagger Bagley and Duren to avoid spacing issues. He did just that, but Duren ended up playing more minutes as Bagley struggled with foul trouble. He picked up his second foul with 6:13 in the first quarter, and picked up a tech in the second quarter after being hit with his third foul with more than six minutes to play until halftime.
Duren made good use of his early playing time, scoring all eight of his points and grabbing eight rebounds in the first half.
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Detroit Pistons' offense ice-cold in LA in 96-91 loss to Clippers
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The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, including Detroit inductee Eminem, will make its broadcast debut this weekend.
The four-hour hall of fame show will premiere at 8 p.m. Saturday on HBO, with an immediate re-airing at midnight. The program will also become available then for streaming on HBO Max.
Eminem was among this year’s seven major rock-hall inductees, alongside Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and the Eurythmics. The program, featuring performances and tributes, was taped Nov. 5 for a star-filled crowd at L.A.’s Microsoft Theater.
Eminem was inducted by his longtime producer and collaborator Dr. Dre, and was joined by Detroit’s Denaun Porter for a performance medley. Eminem then accepted his induction with a speech rattling off the rappers who inspired his music.
Audio of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will also air at 8 p.m. Saturday on SiriusXM’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio (Channel 310) and the Volume platform on the SiriusXM app.
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on TV
With Eminem, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and the Eurythmics
8 p.m. Sat.
HBO, HBO Max (streaming) and SiriusXM (audio)
(Taped Nov. 5 in Los Angeles)
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Loved ones flood social media with memories of Northville Township couple killed in crash
Through tears, he recalls his favorite memories with his little sister — after all, she’s been his best friend since she was two days old.
Bassam Kadry lost his best friend suddenly in a car accident just after midnight Saturday. Manal Kadry, 40, and her husband, Omar Salamen, 46, were driving home from a friend’s house when a tricky turn in the road proved fatal.
“They just had a gift of understanding people and meeting them where they are, and being open-minded, never really judging,” Bassam Kadry said in a conversation with the Free Press. “Manal in particular was relentless about not giving up, almost to a fault.”
The couple was fun-loving and spontaneous. She was an interior designer operating her own design firm and he was an oral surgeon at Dexter Oral Surgery. Together, they were a perfect pair. She was magnetic, her smile was infectious and her heart knew no bounds — a trait that she carried in every endeavor she took on throughout her life, Kadry said.
Northville police are continuing to investigate the incident, which occurred on Bayberry Way in the area of Seven Mile and Napier roads in Northville Township, but preliminary findings indicate the driver was attempting to navigate a curve, left the road and struck a tree. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
In the days since the incident, family and friends have flooded the social channels with tributes to Manal’s memory as part of a social media campaign started by Bassam Kadry, who posted the call to action to combat the torrent of automated — and at times, false — reports he saw online.
“(Manal) was a beacon of light for so many,” Bassam wrote in the post asking loved ones to reclaim the digital narrative. “She spoke truth to power. Her courage, compassion, and character were defining hallmarks of her DNA. She was a gift to us all.”
He asked, and dozens answered.
“You cannot help but be drawn to her. She has a beautiful aura that captivated everyone,” one post reads.“
"She was one of the most beautiful souls to live on this earth, and her smile said it all,” another reads.
“She was so full of life, love, and passion for art and her students, and she was such a sweet, genuine, fun-loving spirit,” said another.
In a Facebook post, Mona Haydar recalls connecting with Manal as a fellow artist and described her as a “beam of sunshine,” who had the rare gift of making you feel like the only person in the room when her attention was on you.
“She let her light shine on so many of us and if you ever had the blessing of being around her, you know what I'm talking about,” Haydar wrote. “She sparkled. She smiled. She was sweeter than honey and funnier than anyone.
“She believed in the power of art to heal, to transform and to change lives for the better and she lived it and taught it, passing on her conviction to so many of her students.”
The #MyManalStory campaign is not just to drown out the falsities, but also to compile an archive of stories for the couple’s survivors, Salamen’s two teenage sons and their shared children both under the age of 4. Bassam Kadry said he wants the kids to remember their mother as the multifaceted artist with a hunger for life that he grew up alongside.
He wants their story to live in the hearts of everyone — not just those who were close to the couple.
“They just loved their family, friends, jobs, their community, their country, the world, and I think there are a lot more commonalities on that front than anything else,” Bassam said. “I'm praying that their story and their legacy will resonate — beyond language, beyond religion beyond everything — because it resonates with what it means to be human.”
A LaunchGood campaign for the couple’s children has been established by Bassam Kadry, who intends to give the proceeds to the kids on Manal’s birthday Nov. 21.
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Loved ones flood social media with memories of Northville Twp. couple
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Game notes: A rematch of the 1988, '89 or 2004 NBA Finals, this is not. These are two of the bottom teams in the league, but this matchup has a little bit of spice with the return of LeBron James, who's missed the last few games with a leg injury. The Pistons are coming off a 96-91 loss to the Clippers in the same arena just the night before.
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Stawski is the director behind Paramount Plus's live-action animated film "Blue's Big City Adventure," released on the streaming service Friday. It's based on the Nickelodeon series "Blue's Clues & You!," a revival of the 1990s show "Blue's Clues," featuring a courageous animated dog and its owner pursuing clues and solving problems. The film centers around the host of "Blue's Clues & You!," Josh, played by Joshua Dela Cruz, visiting New York for an audition. Tagging along is Blue and a few more familiar faces.
Original "Blue's Clues" host Steve Burns appears in the film for a nostalgic touch.
This is Stawski's first-ever feature film, which just so happens is also a musical. He has a thing for musicals.
Q: Tell us how you got into the business of filmmaking.
A: Oh, man, I actually went to Cousino High School in Warren, and they have a radio-TV station. My friends and I were able to borrow their gear all the time and we just started shooting local bands around Detroit.
From there, I kept doing music videos and started building a reel. While I was going to Columbia College for directing, I started booking jobs for companies out here in California, doing hip-hop videos and motion graphics. Before I knew it, right when I graduated, I moved out to LA and had a job doing music videos. Sixteen years of music videos, and that took me straight into features, where I am now.
Q: What's been some of your best work or sets that you've been on? I hear you've done work for Train, CeeLo Green and worked on sets for Nickelodeon.
A: One of the more well-known videos that I'm really proud of is the CeeLo Green, "Forget You" video. That was really fun because he wrote a sort of Motown song. Obviously, my whole life, I've been inspired by Motown. We went down to Hitsville USA, and we just went to all the spots on West Grand and really soaked in the history of Motown. I was able to sort of tap into some of that Motown doo-wop style in that CeeLo video.
It's been a balance of doing videos that I have to do to pay the bills and videos that I get to have creative freedom and make a really colorful, fun, exciting video.
Q: I got a chance to watch Blue's Big City Adventure and it definitely took me back to my own childhood. What was that process like for you in terms of directing?
A: It was really fun. A lot of it was really new and a lot of it I had a lot of experience with. I have a lot of experience doing music videos and musicals. The musical element of it fell right in place, what was new for me was shooting in New York City out on the streets that was very new and incredible to see how that works. How you get film permits to shoot in some of these iconic locations, how you have to wait something out on the city street with pedestrians there, and how to do crowd control that was all new to me as well as shooting animated characters. That was a brand new learning experience for me as well, because on set with multiple animated characters in a scene with a live-action human, you have to make sure that you have all of the eyelines correct, you have to make sure that the live-action actors are interacting with the animated characters and holding their arms the right way and looking in the right directions.
You have to make sure you capture with digital technology how the lighting is so when you're animating the characters in post-production, the lighting looks natural on the animated characters. There was a lot of learning for me for sure, but we pulled it off, and it was really fun. I had a great crew to work with that's what helped me achieve the film.
Q: If you've been to New York before, you could easily say while watching the film: "That's so New York-like." For example, when Blue and Josh arrived in New York there were little scenes where we saw pizza boxes on top of the trash cans. How did you really capture the true New York?
A: Before filming this, I've been there just on vacation. I shot one video there years ago with CeeLo. I did a lot of research and I asked a lot of the locals. We really spent a lot of time making sure that those iconic locations that we featured in the film were locations that we could build a musical out of and really interact with the architecture and the geography of New York City.
We wanted to make sure that we captured some of the best locations and really did our research as to - where can we film in Central Park? What can we do around Bethesda Fountain? What fields can we shoot in for the big dance in the end? What are the best angles and even researched other films that shot in New York and how they shot some of the different locations and what lenses they used? What's the most flattering way to make New York look because this is a kid's movie? We wanted to make sure we presented a sort of candy-coated version of New York City, a very colorful representation of the city.
Q: It was definitely interesting to see the previous Blue's Clues characters in the movie. Why was that a decision to include them?
A: Steve came around for a lot of the 25th anniversary promo stuff they were doing for Blue's Clues. He really went viral, a year and a half ago when he came out and talked to the adults and told them why he left and that he was still their friend. It exploded, I think Nickelodeon really realized how important he was, as well as Donovan (Patton), who played Joe, how important they were to the younger generation and to the older generations, that grew up with Blue's Clues.
It was a no-brainer, to bring them in and have them reprise their roles in such a funny, sort of family-friendly adult way.
Q: What do you want people to get most out of this film? Since it's like multiple generations are watching it.
A: I think the most important thing to me that I realized when we were going into it was this idea of inspiring kids to take chances, to follow their dreams, to sort of leave their little comfort zone, leave their bubble of safety, to chase their dreams. I think that the film does a good job showing Josh and Blue in storybook land and when they leave to go to New York City, the city's very scary. But all they have to do is sort of close their eyes and listen to the music of the city, and find their little bits of wisdom from their friends around them that give them advice along the way.
All the kids growing up on Blue's Clues kind of have to realize that they might have to venture out of their comfort zone and go find their city or find their place where they want to live. And maybe if they want to stay in their own city that they grew up that's great, but really embrace the culture and meet new people that you didn't really grow up with, find people that make you learn new things. That's really important and I want people to get that out of the film for sure.
Q: What did you get out of making this film? And also, is this the first big title that you've directed?
A: This is my first feature film. I've done some TV pilots in the past, and I've done some short films, but this is my first feature. I learned how important kids and family spaces are and how important it is to get the educational and inspirational aspects of the film right because little kids really look up to these characters. It's really important, how you show them on screen and how you portray certain events. I really learned how to make a film in the kid space. That was probably my biggest learning experience because a lot of the music videos I've done have been more in the adult space. I was able to really play with that fantasy surrealist imagination, stuff that t kids are so great at. I was able to sort of become a kid again, making this movie.
Q: Looking a little bit into the future what other projects do you have in store - I hear that recently you sold your musical horror films, to Universal Pictures. What's up with that?
A: We're in development on the Monster Mash right now with Universal and we're working on just getting the script in a good place so we can shoot it. I'm really excited for that because obviously, I am obsessed with Halloween. I grew up in Michigan, going out to the cider mills, going to Blake's. Going up to Tilson Street in Romeo and seeing all the houses decorated. My girlfriend and I like to come home every year for Theatre Bizarre at the Masonic Temple. Detroit just goes off for Halloween. It's one of the Halloween capitals of the country.
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There's a lot in the Monster Mash film, there's a lot of good Easter eggs that really tie into Detroit and a lot of our Halloween culture. I'm really excited to film that, we're still in the script phase, and we're still in development. It might be a minute before we shoot that. But other than that, I'm trying to develop more musical concepts. At some point in my life, I would absolutely love to come back and make a true Motown musical.
Q: I have to ask, are musicals like your thing?
A: I've tried to watch almost every musical that's ever existed. I'm not as big on actually going to the theater, it's something I never really did. Just because it was always really pricey, so I always watch musical films. I love the fact that with musicals, you can break so many rules, one genre film where you can go full fantasy, and the audience accepts it and that's a really fun space to play with. I absolutely adore musicals and I would love to make many, many more.
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Q: Before I let you go, can you give your best advice to aspiring filmmakers?
A: Number one, is to create what you know. Don't try to make a movie or take a job in an area that you're not passionate about. If you grew up with a certain type of music if your grandma and grandpa played a certain type of music, and you're obsessed with that music, make a movie about that music.
If you grew up in a neighborhood that has something very specific to it, make a movie about that neighborhood. If you had a best friend, that was a character, if you could remember anything they said in their whole life and all the advice that they gave you, make a movie about that friend. Whatever interests you, whether it's historical, whether it's pop culture, make a movie about that because when you go and pitch a movie to Hollywood, you have to be the person in the room that knows the most about that topic.
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Q: One more thing when and where can the audience see Blue's Big City Adventure?
A: Blue's Big City Adventure comes out on Paramount Plus on Nov. 18. You can get a free trial if you don't already have it. I would advise everyone to make sure their volume is cranked up to 11, and watch it on the biggest screen possible. Because it's a big fun movie, the kids are going to hopefully get up and dance and sing along to it.
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Paramount's ‘Blue's Big City Adventure’ based on ‘Blue’s Clues’ series
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The first piece of legislation introduced in the current session, back in January of last year, was a bill that would prevent a member of the legislature from voting on any measure that they or an immediate family member have a personal or professional interest in.
That bill, introduced by Rep. Pamela Hornberger, R-Chesterfield Township, passed the House by a 105-3 vote in May 2021. But it has since languished in the Senate.
"I think that's something we'll focus on in lame duck as well," Wentworth said. The House also overwhelmingly passed a resolution, introduced by Wentworth, that would change the lame-duck session itself. Under the resolution, passed in Feb. 2021, bills would have a harder time making it through the lame duck, needing a two-thirds majority to pass.
Wentworth said the intention behind the lame-duck proposal was to ensure that lawmakers don't leave priorities that can be addressed earlier in the legislative calendar for the final few session days. He added there's a greater impetus in the House to work on priorities, where lawmakers have two-year terms, compared to the Senate, where terms last four years.
"In hindsight, I wish they would move faster on some of these things," Wentworth said, of the Senate. "But the reason we moved fast out of the gate and the reason why I sponsored the resolution to end lame duck essentially, require a two-thirds vote, was because I didn't want to get into a situation where we're sitting in lame duck and a lot of our priorities are still (left).
Wentworth said he can "absolutely" see lawmakers taking up the issue. Whitmer also previously told the Free Press she believes it makes more sense for the legislature to send her a solution during the lame-duck session, instead of waiting until the new, Democratic-lead, legislature set to take over in January.
Due to Michigan's current term limits, Wentworth will depart the legislature at the end of the year. Following the midterm elections, control of both the Michigan House and Senate will flip to Democrats, placing the GOP in the minority in both chambers for the first time in decades.
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GOP Michigan House Speaker: Ethics reform should be lame duck priority
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Minutes before midnight, the 911 call came in, and the Allen Park firefighters rushed out.
A ranch house on Allen Road was ablaze and "babies" were trapped in the basement, the dispatcher told them.
What happened in the next few minutes, Fire Chief Ed Cann said, is a story of bravery, and luck, with a happy ending that will make you feel good. It certainly made him feel good — and proud of his crew — he said. It also, he added, is what firefighters do — and is a reminder, especially as freezing temperatures set in, to be extra alert.
In short, Cann said, a neighbor reported the fire at 11:57 p.m. Two minutes later, the two fire engines — a crew of six — were at the house. The three adults that were inside — a mother and her two adult children, a son and daughter — had already escaped.
And the babies, turned out to be cute, goldendoodle puppies, just weeks-old. It's not clear whether the homeowner, who was a breeder, called the puppies her babies when the fire report came in, or if the two words in the chaos of the fire sounded alike.
Either way, by 12:08 a.m., the firefighters had extinguished the flames, which were mostly contained to a bedroom, with about 800 gallons of water and were headed into the basement — with protective gear and self-contained breathing apparatus — to save the puppies.
They reached them, the chief said, just in time.
Thick smoke was closing in on the dogs, he said, and within a couple of minutes they would have died.
All together there were 21 of them, and, the chief added, the only thing wrong with them after that was they needed baths.
The fire department later posted a photo of the dogs on their Facebook page, which drew the attention of dozens of residents, who wanted to adopt the puppies, and many news outlets, eager to report what had happened the night before.
"I am a huge animal lover, and I do volunteer work with the Michigan Humane Society," Cann said. "But our first priority is humans, of course. Yet we'll save a human and we'll get one phone call, and we'll save puppies and we'll get 75."
Still, the chief said he was OK with that because it shows people care.
It's easier, sometimes — a lot of times — for folks to express their feelings about pets.
Cann said it's also a chance to remind people to be careful when using space heaters, to install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and to never run back into a burning structure to retrieve a precious heirloom or pet. Let the firefighters do it because they have the training and gear.
"This sort of story generates a lot of human interest," Cann added. "It's a nice, feel-good story. It makes me proud, very proud, of my firefighters. They work very hard to get ready for things like this and their quick response made the difference in saving that house — and saving lives."
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21 goldendoodle puppies rescued from Allen Park house fire
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Baobab Fare, in Detroit’s New Center, makes Esquire’s best new restaurants list
Esquire magazine has released its annual Best New Restaurants in America list, and it includes a Detroit establishment.
Baobab Fare in New Center at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard ranked No. 14 on the list of 40 honorees, which is featured in the magazine's Winter 2022 issue. The restaurant, which serves East African cuisine while also celebrating the region's culture, is owned by Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere, a husband-and-wife team from Burundi. Baobab was named No. 1 on the Detroit Free Press' list of best new restaurants for 2022.
More:Best New Restaurant No. 1: Baobab Fare in Detroit
Esquire's 2022 honorees, announced Thursday, "represent what it means to dine well in the U.S. right now," its editors wrote. The magazine chose 40 restaurants for 2022 to mark the 40th edition of its new restaurants list.
"It's with a lot of joy and satisfaction getting this recognition for Baobab Fare," Mamba said in a text message, noting that being among the 40 restaurants selected by Esquire is a "big deal."
"If you look back and see how we started 3-4 years ago, I wouldn't imagine that we may be a best new restaurant in the country and get the recognition from Esquire magazine," he said.
Earlier this year, Baobab Fare owners were named semifinalists in the James Beard Awards Best Chef Great Lakes category but did not make it as finalists.
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Under the heading "14 East Africa X Motor City," Esquire editors write that "there are ten Burundians in Detroit, and at least four of them, at any given moment, are at Baobab Fare." That 10, they said, included the restaurant's owners and their two daughters.
The magazine lauded Baobab for its "concise menu of underrepresented East African classics." It specifically mentioned Baobab's homemade ugali (a corn flour ball served with a hearty okra stew), its mbuzi (a slow-roasted goat shank) and a crispy fried fish topped with "onions of a peculiar tang, plantains of particular sweetness and stewed yellow beans of immense complexity."
Baobab was also hailed as a gathering place for asylum seekers, immigrants, local office workers and community activists.
The restaurant is named after the baobab tree, which grows in desert heat without water and is known for its longevity. It's also referred to as the tree of life. "Never has there been a restaurant more deserving of the name," the editors wrote of Baobab Fare.
The complete list is at esquire.com. The magazine will be at retail stores by Nov. 29.
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The Detroit Tigers continue to attack the waiver wire.
On Friday, the Tigers claimed outfielder Bligh Madris off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Madris, a left-handed hitter with two minor-league options remaining, has played 39 games in his MLB career.
The Tigers have not announced Madris' addition to the organization. The Tigers' 40-man roster is currently full, so they'll need to create room.
Madris played all 39 of his big-league games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2022, hitting .177 with one home run, 10 walks and 31 strikeouts. The 26-year-old received 17 starts in right field, eight starts at first base and four starts in left. He also spent two innings in center.
The Pirates selected Madris in the ninth round (No. 268 overall) of the 2017 draft.
The Rays claimed Madris off waivers from the Pirates in September. Madris spent 81 games in Triple-A with the two organizations and hit .297 with 11 homers, 33 walks and 74 strikeouts.
He was designated for assignment by the Rays on Tuesday to make room for prospects joining their 40-man roster. Tigers assistant general manager Rob Metzler, hired in October, worked for the Rays from 2008-22.
Marc Tompkin of the Tampa Bay Times was the first to report Madris joining the Tigers.
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Detroit Tigers claim OF Bligh Madris off waivers from Tampa Bay Rays
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The Tigers also non-tendered infielder Harold Castro and utility player Willi Castro. They reached a one-year, $1.875 million contract with left-hander Tyler Alexander for the 2023 season, avoiding arbitration.
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Candelario, who turns 29 on Thanksgiving, played for the Tigers from 2017-22. He ended last season as the third longest-tenured Tiger in the big leagues, behind designated hitter Miguel Cabrera and reliever Joe Jiménez.
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Candelario, a below-average defender at the hot corner, played 563 games for the Tigers from 2018-22, more than any player on the team during the four-year span. In July 2017, the Tigers acquired Candelario (and Isaac Paredes) from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Alex Avila and Justin Wilson.
Along with Candelario, Alexander and the Castros, the Tigers needed to make decisions on Jiménez (projected for $2.6 million), outfielder Austin Meadows ($4 million), reliever Gregory Soto ($3.1 million), reliever José Cisnero ($2.2 million) and reliever Rony García ($1 million).
Those five players, plus Alexander, are set to return in 2023.
Harold Castro, who turns 29 in late November, doesn't fit Harris' blueprint for the future of the Tigers, considering his high chase and low walk rates, but his bat-to-ball skills made him an interesting candidate to return. Ultimately, though, the Tigers chose not to bring him back. The left-hander hit .271 with a career-high seven home runs, 17 walks and 76 strikeouts in 120 games.
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Detroit Tigers cut Jeimer Candelario, Harold Castro, Willie Castro
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Detroiters pack Campus Martius for 19th annual Christmas tree lighting
Now it's Christmastime for real.
Hundreds gathered at Campus Martius on Friday night for an evening of holiday fun and to see the traditional 65-foot-tall Michigan-grown Christmas tree light up with 20,000 LEDs.
About 7:10 p.m., Mayor Mike Duggan, his wife and others gathered near the tree to start the countdown from five. Then, a few minutes later, Duggan threw the switch, and the packed crowd screamed and cheered as if it was the ball dropping in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve.
Local ice skating groups took off on the ice rink as dozens took pictures or videos of the tree.
Despite the cold temperatures, many, like Madyson Bundy, 24, of Detroit, came out for the first time to get a taste of a Detroit Christmas.
“I came with my baby, my friends Tashyla and Marcell. We’re getting out and trying to get in the holiday spirit.”
Bundy said she is most excited to see the lights on the tree. “I just want to make sure my baby got a smile on his face, which doesn't take too much for that,” she said.
Guests were welcomed through metal detectors for a safe and fun evening. Food trucks lined the street, along with vendors with wares such as free stickers, hot chocolate and other sweet treats.
For $10, attendees could get a horse and carriage ride, or for $40 they could get a private ride.
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Starting at 5 p.m., the crowd began gathering in below-freezing temperatures to get a taste of the festive season. It was also the opening night of the skating rink at Campus Martius.
While some gobbled down food or tried to warm their hands and bellies with hot chocolate, others did some early Christmas shopping at the Cadillac Square holiday markets that feature over 15 vendors selling clothing, jewelry, body care and other novelty products.
As part of the tree-lighting program, there were performances from Mariah Bell, the 2022 U.S national figure skating champion, and University of Michigan alumni and Golden Globe-winning actor and singer-songwriter Darren Criss, known for his role on TV's "Glee." Also performing was The Redhouse Band led by Darell “Red” Campbell Jr., a musician and teacher who works with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Civic Youth Ensembles.
Downtown Detroit Partnership (DPD) chief public spaces officer David Cowan said that DDP is excited to be part of this event once again.
Said Cowan: ”It’s the kickoff of the holiday season for all of Detroit. We’re so pleased to offer this event free and open to everyone. It’s such a cherished tradition for so many Detroiters and many across the state. It’s an honor for DDP to produce this for the 19th year."
Last year, there were over 75,000 guests in attendance. This year, Cowan and his team anticipated at least 100,000. New things were added to the show this year.
“There are a lot more viewing areas that we've added, we've increased the entire event footprint, the stage is bigger,” he said. ”There's a million more lights downtown, brand new lighting themes all across the city. There's so much to do and see in downtown. It's incredible: shopping, dining, carriage rides, visit with Santa, it's really pretty spectacular.”
Downtown Detroit co-workers Katie Duffy, 36, of Allen Park, Lauren Banach, 37, of Livonia, and Lisa Talarek, 31, of Ferndale, all work nearby and looked on every day as the tree was being set up.
“We were in the office so we just walked over here,” said Duffy. “We work from home on Fridays so that just shows how much we really wanted to come. We were like, we’re going to be in the office that day to be down here and be already parked, skip the crowd and everything.”
It was the first tree lighting for Duffy and Banach but Talarek been before.
“I'm excited just to see the city light up like this and the whole vibe of seeing the crowd,” said Duffy. ”To me, it just symbolizes what Detroit is still about. You can feel the excitement for the holidays and the love just from everyone down here.”
Campus Martius skating rink is open seven days a week until March 5.
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The Detroit Tigers tendered contracts to six arbitration-eligible players for the 2023 season: Austin Meadows, Gregory Soto, Joe Jiménez, José Cisnero, Tyler Alexander and Rony García.
Third baseman Jeimer Candelario, infielder Harold Castro and utility player Willi Castro were non-tendered and officially became free agents at Friday's 8 p.m. tender deadline. Earlier this offseason, the Tigers cut ties with four arbitration-eligible players: right-hander Drew Hutchison, outfielder Victor Reyes, righty reliever Miguel Díaz and righty reliever Kyle Funkhouser.
The Tigers already avoided arbitration with two players: Alexander (one year, $1.875 million) and Meadows (projected by MLB Trade Rumors to earn $4 million). Meadows' salary for next season is unclear, but he earned $4 million in 2022.
To keep the four others, the Tigers likely will pay roughly $9 million. Soto is projected to earn $3.1 million; Jiménez $2.6; Cisnero $2.2 million; and García $1 million.
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Meadows, 27, only played 36 games for the Tigers last season. The left-handed power hitter, an All-Star in 2019, failed to record a home run. The Tigers acquired him from the Tampa Bay Rays in April 2022, but he missed most of the season with vertigo, COVID-19 and bilateral Achilles strains before sitting out September for mental health reasons. He hit .250 with 16 walks and 17 strikeouts.
Soto, who turns 28 in February, pitched 64 games for the Tigers last season and served as the closer for the entire season, earning 30 saves in 33 changes despite a miserable 2-11 record. He had a 3.28 ERA in 60⅓ innings with 5.1 walks per nine innings, 9.0 strikeouts per nine and an inflated 1.376 WHIP. He is under team control through the 2025 season.
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Detroit Tigers offer contracts to six arbitration-eligibles for 2023
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Linda Smith-Cummings, the owner of Soul Amazing LLC, holds a tray full of sweet potato pies inside the North Rosedale Park Community House kitchen in Detroit on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. David Rodriguez Munoz, Detroit Free Press
The year was 2011. The location was the kitchen at Linda Cummings’ northwest Detroit home. And Cummings’ 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter had an important announcement to make.
“Mom, we want to go to U of M,” the 59-year-old Cummings said recently in her best "kid’s voice," as she replayed the moment when her son Ricardo and her daughter Alia made it clear that their hearts and minds were set on attending the University of Michigan — even before they had completed elementary school.
To Cummings’ best recollection, the statement was repeated at least two more times by her son and daughter in unison. Afterward, Cummings said there was no doubt in her mind that both of her children would find their way to the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor when their time for college came. But first there was work that she needed to do to make her children’s dream a reality.
“It’s a mother’s job to protect her children and keep them healthy and strong so they can pursue their dreams,” said Cummings, who was born in Albion and moved to Detroit in 1981, which coincided with her admission to Mercy College of Detroit. “For my children to attend the University of Michigan, they were going to need to earn scholarships. And to make sure that happened, I had to keep them focused.”
For Cummings, keeping her children focused by any means necessary also involved a dramatic change in the way she earned a living. For 25 years, she had worked in positions — including more than 10 years within the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office — where she advocated for children and families. However, Cummings found a need to shift gears and she used her undergraduate degree in education to become a substitute teacher. What she lost in terms of dollars in her paycheck, Cummings said, she and her children gained more from the added time she was able to spend with them throughout the remainder of their pre-college schooling.
On May 11, 2019 Linda Cummings (left) and Ricardo Cummings (far right) celebrated Alia Cummings’ participation in the 40th annual WXYZ “Brightest And Best,” which honors some of the highest achieving graduating seniors from area schools. The event took place outside the WXYZ-TV Broadcast House in Southfield. A 2019 graduate of Detroit Edison Public School Academy, Alia Cummings is on track to graduate from the University of Michigan in December 2023. In 2021, Ricardo Cummings, the son of Linda Cummings and the older brother of Alia, graduated from the University of Michigan and is now a portfolio planning leader for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. Provided by Ricardo Cummings
“In life, sometimes you have to make choices and make changes, and parenting is all about being consistent,” said Cummings, who also holds a master’s degree in counseling. “It’s important for parents to be around their kids and I needed that extra time to provide stability and keep my children focused on their goals.”
The extra time described by Cummings turned out to be time well spent and her children are the proof. In 2021, Ricardo Cummings graduated from the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in industrial and operations engineering. The Michigan Wolverine now calls the Buckeye state home, while working for Cincinnati-headquartered Procter & Gamble as a portfolio planning leader. And Alia Cummings is on track to earn her own University of Michigan degree, a bachelor’s degree in material science and engineering, which is scheduled to happen in December 2023.
“My children have been an inspiration to me because I see how they have continued to push,” said Linda Cummings, who pointed out that her children did more, not less, during the earlier stages of the pandemic to reach where they are currently in life.
When Linda Cummings talks about her children, the prideful tone in her voice cannot be denied. The words that come out of her mouth are equally revealing, as she often substitutes her children’s names with the descriptions: “best son ever” and “best daughter ever.” And just as the kitchen in her Bagley community home was once a place where Linda Cummings regularly learned about the exciting choices her children were making about their futures, today, another kitchen, located within the North Rosedale Park Community House (18445 Scarsdale), keeps her connected to her children because within that kitchen Linda Cummings creates the sweet treats sold by her two-year-old company, Soul Amazing LLC.
Linda Smith-Cummings, the owner of Soul Amazing LLC, stirs melted butter as she stands inside the North Rosedale Park Community House kitchen in Detroit on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. David Rodriguez Munoz, Detroit Free Press
“I had to start my business because I asked myself: ‘What do I have to leave my children?’ ” explained Linda Cummings, whose company specializes in sweet potato pies in a variety of sizes and 7-ounce sweet potato bites sold as six or 12-packs.
The sweet potato pies and bites can be purchased with or without pecans on top. And when Linda Cummings further explains her decision to launch her company during a peak period of a global pandemic, she goes back to words spoken at her home kitchen table long before her children left for college.
“My children used to always say: ‘Mom, you cook with love and one day you’re going to be in a restaurant because you cook with love,' ” Linda Cummings, who used quarantine periods during 2020 to further sharpen her baking skills, recalls. “Whatever I cooked, to my children, it was the best ever. They didn’t know that we were in a struggle, or where the food came from, but it was still the best to them. I still hear their words and they give me purpose beyond measure, and it has allowed me to continue to dream and push.”
The youngest of six children born to Willie Frank Smith Jr. and Frankie Bell Smith, who helped support the family as a cook at Albion College, Linda Cummings only knows her mother through pictures because she died when Linda was just a year old. However, Cummings received motherly guidance throughout her childhood from her oldest sister, Annie Lois Smith. And in recent years, when she desperately needed direction with the launch of her business during a most challenging time, Cummings said her church, Global Empowerment Ministries (17910 Van Dyke) and Pastor Art Cartwright provided the knowledge she needed from a “Biblical standpoint,” including information about incorporating a business, certification, product development, packaging, pricing and much more. Cummings also expressed her deep appreciation for a very timely $50 gift from Mother Cartwright, who gave Cummings instructions to pay the gift forward, which led to her giving out free samples of her pies that eventually produced future opportunities.
Linda Smith-Cummings, the owner of Soul Amazing LLC, stands inside the North Rosedale Park Community House kitchen in Detroit on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. David Rodriguez Munoz, Detroit Free Press
Because of the many helping hands that have touched her throughout her life, including Linda Cummings’ adopted grandmother Claudia Clark, who lived to be 105 years old and provided love and guidance to Cummings until Clark’s last days, Cummings says her business must have a community mission.
“My goal is to help stop the tears in families by providing employment to single moms and dads,” said Cummings, whose pies and bites can be purchased at the Meijer Rivertown Market (1475 E. Jefferson), and other area locations, and even as far away as the Meijer Capital City Market in Lansing. “I also want to open up a trade center for teenagers in the 10th through 12th grades. Everyone is not for college, but the trade center would provide opportunities for teenagers to create their own business or expand with someone else. We don’t have to tell our young people what to do, but we can give them options.”
This year will mark the first time that Soul Amazing products will be available in stores during the extended holiday season. And while that is a milestone for the business, for Cummings’ children, the holidays simply provide the best chance to celebrate mom.
Linda Smith-Cummings, the owner of Soul Amazing LLC, holds a batch of her signature sweet potato pies with a pecan topping inside the North Rosedale Park Community House kitchen in Detroit on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. David Rodriguez Munoz, Detroit Free Press
“I am thankful for my mom for so many reasons,” Ricardo Cummings said on Wednesday from Cincinnati. “She inspires me on a daily basis to follow my dreams and make the biggest impact possible through interactions with people. Since I was young, she’s always baked sweet potato pies. It’s been her staple for many years for birthdays, holidays and events. I don’t get to have them as often since I moved to Cincinnati for work, but I am looking forward to getting the opportunity to eat her pies this upcoming Thanksgiving. It’s one of my yearly highlights. I appreciate the work she does and wish her success as she follows her passions.”
Ricardo’s words were echoed by his sister, who also provided a confession about her feelings surrounding sweet potato pie in general.
“I will legit not eat anyone’s else’s sweet potato pie because I don’t like it, but I love my mom’s,” said Alia Cummings, who shared her thoughts Wednesday from Ann Arbor just hours before her mother headed to the North Rosedale Park Community House kitchen for some late-night baking. “You can feel a sense of joy from the very first bite with one of my mom’s pies. And I believe you feel that because of the blood, sweat, tears and caring she puts into every pie she bakes. There’s soulfulness behind every pie.”
Scott Talley is a native Detroiter, a proud product of Detroit Public Schools and lifelong lover of Detroit culture in all of its diverse forms. In his second tour with the Free Press, which he grew up reading as a child, he is excited and humbled to cover the city’s neighborhoods and the many interesting people who define its various communities. Contact him at: stalley@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @STalleyfreep. Read more of Scott's stories at www.freep.com/mosaic/detroit-is/.
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One of the five candidates running for president of the UAW has filed a federal lawsuit in Detroit requesting at least an additional month to have ballots returned in the union’s first direct election of top leaders.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit by candidate Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in Pennsylvania, alleges the union and the independent monitor overseeing it have not done enough to notify those eligible of the election process and pointed out that only a fraction of ballots had been returned this week ahead of a suggested mail-in deadline to have them counted.
Hearings in the matter are scheduled for Tuesday.
“The UAW and the monitor have failed to provide anything resembling adequate notice to hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file UAW members, who are not accustomed to direct elections and would not ordinarily expect to receive ballots. The UAW has the resources and the means to provide the necessary notice but deliberately and obstinately refuses to do so,” according to the suit.
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A request for comment was emailed to UAW spokeswoman Sandra Engle. The office of monitor Neil Barofsky declined to comment.
The suit noted the struggles of some members to even get a ballot.
“Since early November, a concerningly high number of UAW members have been submitting reports to the Monitor complaining that they had not received ballots, either within a reasonable time or at all. Many members have reported the Monitor’s website and hotline were non-responsive when members attempted to use those resources to request ballots,” the suit said.
As of Thursday evening, just under 96,000 ballots had been returned, according to the monitor’s website. The monitor’s office has said that more than 1 million ballots were being mailed out to those eligible. The deadline for ballots to be returned is Nov. 28, and vote counting is slated to begin the following day.
The election is the result of the consent decree between federal prosecutors and the UAW following the corruption scandal involving the misuse of millions of dollars that sent top-ranking former union leaders, including two presidents, and auto executives to prison. Barofsky was also named as the monitor to oversee the union and the election as a result.
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Warren City Council member term limit dispute latest kerfuffle to hit court
Does the city of Warren have a new council member?
Is the City Council president’s tenure over?
Well, that depends on whom you ask.
And it may be up to a Macomb County Circuit Court judge to decide.
The latest kerfuffle in Warren politics centers on the city charter — as so many other legal battles have — and a question about City Council President Pat Green’s term in office.
The issue was raised last month when City Attorney Ethan Vinson, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Fouts and confirmed by the prior City Council, indicated that resident Gary Boike wrote a letter requesting to be appointed to fill the vacant council seat when Green is termed out this month after serving 12 years on council.
Vinson’s letter stated that, per the city charter, a person is not eligible to hold the position on City Council for more than the greater of three complete terms or 12 years in that particular office.
Green served eight years — two complete four-year terms — from November 2007 through November 2015, and a partial term from November 2015 to November 2016, when he resigned to become a state representative.
In November 2019, Green won a four-year term as an at-large city councilman and is the current City Council president.
'Follow the charter'
In his letter, Vinson said the position Green holds was to be vacant on Nov. 14 and that under the city charter, Boike is to be appointed to the position as he was the person receiving the highest number of votes of those who did not finish in the top two positions in the last City Council election.
But the City Council and its attorney disagree, saying Green hasn’t served three complete terms in office and that a partial term isn’t a complete term.
City Council attorney Jeff Schroder said in a letter earlier this month: “There is no reference in this section (of the city charter) to an officer exceeding 12 years in a particular office result in a vacancy. If that were the case, the Mayor, who is in his 15th year in office would have to vacate his office immediately."
Schroder reiterated his position during Tuesday's City Council meeting, saying: “No one's trying to take the mayor out. No one should be trying to take a council member out. We have to follow the charter.”
According to a lawsuit City Council filed in circuit court, the council called a special meeting Nov. 10 during which it adopted a resolution that it “takes no legal action on the eligibility and qualifications of any member and will continue to respect the will of the voters as expressed in the November 2019 General Election for the current term of office.”
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The council said Fouts then filed a letter Monday with the city clerk trying to veto its action, saying it is contrary to the city charter regarding the 12-year service limitations of council members. It also stated Fouts would “adhere to the Charter and will not process payroll or expend taxpayer revenues on an officer ineligible for benefits or salary,” according to the council's lawsuit filed Tuesday.
A circuit judge granted the City Council’s request for a temporary restraining order, prohibiting Fouts from interfering with Green’s current term and from terminating any of his council pay benefits or privileges. The injunctive relief against Fouts also is binding on his “officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys and on all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive notice of this order,” according to the order.
A show cause hearing is set for Monday.
No seat at the table
The same day the lawsuit was filed and the temporary restraining order was signed, the city clerk swore in Boike as a councilman. He came to the City Council meeting that night, prepared to take a seat at the council table on the stage, but was denied.
“I am here today not to remove Mr. Green, that’s not my authority,” Boike, a Warren resident for more than 30 years, said from the audience during the public comment portion of the meeting. “I can’t remove him, the same way he can’t remove me from being a council member.”
Boike told the council that he was presented with the temporary restraining order but that “it did not have my name on it.” He said Fouts “had nothing to do with this.”
Boike said while his opinion differed on the term limits from the council, he didn’t want to make a scene and he would let the courts decide.
On Friday, Lawrence García, an attorney representing Boike and Vinson, filed a request with the court to intervene in the matter and be named as defendants.
Like Fouts, he believes the case comes down to two men who believe they each are entitled to the same seat on council and an interpretation of the city charter.
More:Warren mayor, city council go head-to-head in lawsuits, forensic audit
“I do expect the legal system will produce an appropriate outcome,” he said.
Mayor: 'Frivolous' lawsuit
The mayor’s office also has resubmitted items for the city's upcoming meeting Tuesday that it had submitted for the previous meeting (items that Schroder said were voted on) to “ensure proper action on each item” in light of issues raised by the city attorney.
Vinson told the City Council at Tuesday's meeting that it seemed prudent to adjourn the meeting until the next week, so not to run the risk of any action being deemed invalid or Green could step down and not participate in any more of that meeting.
At that council meeting, Schroder said there should be no concerns about the council votes that night. He also questioned swearing in someone “in secret” and sending them to a meeting after telling them they are a new council member.
“You could swear in the man on the moon, but this doesn’t make them a council member,” he said.
Fouts called the lawsuit “frivolous.” He said he has “really nothing to do with this whatsoever.”
His attorney, Jack Dolan, said he plans to file a motion to dismiss Fouts because he wasn’t properly named as a defendant to begin with. He said he’s “befuddled” why Fouts was named in the first place.
Fouts said he has “no stake in the dispute.” The court, he said, “undoubtedly” will straighten out the matter.
He said he’s had “no conversations” with Boike.
But council sees it differently and said Fouts endorsed Boike for council in 2019.
“This is 100% political,” Schroder said. “When he doesn’t get his way, (Fouts) takes the law into his own hands and it causes litigation.”
He said the council will be “vigorously objecting” to Boike having a city-paid lawyer representing him. He’s not a city-elected official.
More:Warren voters shut the door on future reelection bids by Mayor Jim Fouts
More:4 of Warren's longest serving councilmen knocked off ballot — again
Term limits question not new
The term limits question isn’t new to Warren or its voters.
In 2019, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled four veteran Warren city councilmen’s names were to be off the primary ballot after a term limits lawsuit. They were the majority of a seven-member City Council.
City voters set term limits for the city’s elected officials in 1998 of three terms or 12 years. In 2010, voters approved two changes to the city charter that cut the council from nine to seven members and created five district and two at-large council seats.
In December 2014, former City Attorney David Griem opined that council is a bicameral legislative body, consisting of district and at-large seats, and that a member who has been term-limited in a district seat (three terms or 12 years) can then run for an at-large seat and vice versa.
In 2016, voters approved a ballot question allowing the mayor to serve five, four-year terms or 20 years.
Four years later, voters in the state’s third-largest city approved a charter amendment that a mayor may only serve three four-year terms, or 12 years, in office like the rest of the city's elected officials.
The vote didn’t impact Fouts, but it prevents him from running for a fifth, four-year term.
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Michigan Democrats scored historic victories in the midterm elections, taking control of the state House, Senate, and the governor’s mansion for the first time since 1983. The wins were thanks, at least in part, to the Democrats’ pro-worker, pro-jobs agenda.
Now it’s time for Democrats to show that their pro-worker agenda isn’t just talk. One good way to do that would be for the legislature, as a first order of business, to repeal Michigan’s decade-old right-to-work law. By getting rid of a law that weakened Michigan’s labor unions, Democratic lawmakers would make a powerful statement that they are ready and eager to help workers win higher wages and better benefits.
Residents of Michigan should welcome such a repeal because right-to-work laws hurt workers. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, workers’ wages in right-to-work states are 3.1 percent lower than in non-right-to-work states, after adjusting for differences in the cost of living. Put another way: a worker’s wages are, on average, some $1,600 lower per year.
When Michigan lawmakers were pushing right-to-work, they argued that the legislation would welcome business. What these GOP lawmakers did not say, however, was that right-to-work was in essence an official policy saying the state was anti-union. That understandably upset many Michiganders who were proud that their state was one of the cradles of organized labor and the birthplace of the U.A.W.
A decade ago, during the legislative fight over right-to-work, then-Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer battled hard against it, while then-Governor Snyder backed the measure, insisting that right-to-work laws aren’t anti-union even though the main effect of such laws is to weaken unions. Right-to-work laws sap unions’ treasuries and undercut unions’ power. They allow employees at unionized workplaces to opt out of paying any dues or fees to the unions that bargain on their behalf and win better pay and benefits for them.
Saving dues, losing pay
Proponents of right-to-work tell workers that they can save, say, $700 a year by opting out of paying any dues, enabling them to receive all the benefits of being in a union without paying for it. One study found that the portion of workers who opt out of paying union dues or fees ranges from 9 percent to 39 percent. When that many workers stop paying union dues, it undercuts the power of unions. Many Republican lawmakers are happy to weaken labor unions, because unions mean higher pay for workers and occasional strikes, two things that GOP corporate donors dislike.
But the truth is that union members earn 10.2 percent more than comparable non-union workers, while Black union members earn 13.1 percent more on average than non-union Black workers. Unions also help narrow the gender wage gap. Non-union women workers earn, on average, 78 percent of what men earn, while unionized women workers earn 94 percent of what men earn.
Disarming organized labor
Although Republican lawmakers won’t admit this, another reason they like right-to-work laws is that these laws help to reduce organized labor’s voice in politics, and that in turn hurts Democrats. Three political scientists who did an extensive study on these laws found that “when right-to-work laws are in place, Democrats up and down the ballot do worse.” These scholars found that in right-to-work counties, Democrats perform about 3.5 percentage points worse in presidential elections, with “similar effects in Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races, as well as on state legislative control.” They also found a 2 percent decline in turnout in right-to-work counties.
Many supporters of right-to-work laws insist that they’re not being anti-union – they insist it’s all about helping workers by giving them the freedom to stop paying union dues. It’s odd, however, that these right-to-work supporters who say they’re eager to help workers are rarely or ever seen doing anything else to help workers. They typically oppose raising the minimum wage; they oppose legislation to give workers paid sick days and paid parental leave; they oppose strengthening regulations to improve job safety. It seems that the only time these lawmakers want to help workers is when it weakens unions.
If the incoming legislature and Governor Whitmer together repeal the state's right-to-work law, they will send a loud and unmistakable message that they are eager to deliver on their campaign promises and stick up for Michigan’s workers.
Steven Greenhouse is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a think tank, and covered labor and workplace issues for the New York Times for 19 years. He is author of “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.”
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Michigan running back Donovan Edwards will not suit up in Michigan Stadium until 2023.
The sophomore running back is not in uniform for Saturday's noon game against Illinois, the final home game of the season, a team spokesman confirmed to the Free Press. Edwards had two carries a week ago against Nebraska on the first series of the game, then sat for the rest of the game.
Edwards did warm up prior to the second half, and wore his helmet for most of the game standing next to running backs coach Mike Hart, but CJ Stokes got the majority of the backup work behind Blake Corum.
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The West Bloomfield native has 70 carries on the season for 471 yards (6.7 yards per carry) and four touchdowns with another 14 touchdowns for 179 yards (12.8 yards per catch) and two scores. Edwards had been playing his best football of the season over the past month, totaling 194 yards and two touchdowns against Penn State, 80 yards against Michigan State and 161 yards and a score against Rutgers over the prior three weeks.
Michigan will also be without starting guard Trevor Keegan for the second consecutive week. Keegan, a senior, was out from last week's contest with an undisclosed injury. Back up Giovanni El-Hadi, who has made two starts this season, took pregame reps in his spot.
The Wolverines will also look for a new return man in special teams with AJ Henning ruled out for the contest. The junior special teams specialist is not dressed, per a team spokesman, he has just six catches for 60 yards this season and only one in Big Ten play.
The Wolverines did get a boost to the pass offense, however, with the return of tight end Luke Schoonmaker. The senior missed his first game of the season last week with an undisclosed injury, but was in unifrom prior to Saturday's game.
Schoonmaker has been one of the better pass catching options for quarterback J.J. McCarthy − he ranks second on the team in receptions (30), receiving yards (315) and is tied for third in touchdowns (2).
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Michigan football without Donovan Edwards vs. Illinois
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The Spartans blew a 17-point lead in the second half in catastrophic fashion, with breakdowns in every phase of the game. A 79-yard touchdown run by the Hoosiers’ Shaun Shivers, then an 88-yard kickoff return by teammate Jaylin Lucas. A Payton Thorne interception on the next MSU play led to a field goal. Then a ground march pulled Indiana into a tie with Josh Henderson’s 1-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
Shivers became the eighth straight running back to eclipse 100 yards, finishing with 115 yards on 13 carries with two touchdowns, including a 1-yarder in the second overtime. Quarterback Dexter Williams II, 1-for-6 for 7 yards in regulation and the first overtime, hit tight end AJ Barner for 24 yards on the first play of the second OT, and connected with Barner for the two-point conversion. Williams ran 16 times for 86 yards and a score.
Thorne finished 27 of 42 for 298 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Jalen Berger ran 21 times for 119 yards, and Elijah Collins had 107 yards rushing with two touchdowns on 19 carries. Keon Coleman caught eight passes for 107 yards and a touchdown.
Indiana (4-7, 2-6), which had lost seven straight, opened the game with a 43-yard kickoff return from Jaylin Lucas to start its first drive at midfield. It took just four plays for Dexter Williams II to race around left end, slip through Xavier Henderson’s diving tackle try and dance down the sideline for a 34-yard touchdown. The replay of whether the quarterback stepped out of bounds proved inconclusive to the refs, and the call stood to give the Hoosiers a 7-0 lead 1:48 into the game.
MSU’s defense held the Hoosiers to 31 yards in the first half after that drive.
The Spartans answered with a 19-yard Patton field goal on their next possession, stalling at the 2-yard line with two straight run plays and an incompletion.
Berger blasted off a 36-yard run on the Spartans’ next possession, Thorne hit Tre Mosley for 13 yards on third-and-7 and Collins finished it with a 1-yard TD run for a 17-7 lead.
MSU forced a three-and-out, and Coleman scored on a two-yard reception for a 24-7 advantage at halftime.
Thorne went 13 of 15 for 153 yards and two touchdowns in the half, and Berger ran for 97 yards on 14 carries. The Spartans outgained the Hoosiers, 274-81.
It took Indiana one play to get back in the game. Shaun Shivers took a handoff from Williams off the right side and found nothing but open field ahead of him. He outraced Henderson for a 79-yard touchdown just 1:20 into the third quarter to cut the Spartans’ lead to 24-14.
MSU answered with a six-play, 69-yard drive, capped by a 31-yard run by Collins after he caught a 22-yard swing pass. Thorne also hit Reed for 22 yards on third-and-4 to extend the drive. The Spartans appeared headed to an easy win, up 31-14 with 6:17 to play in the third.
The Spartans’ defense held IU to a 40-yard field goal, but the Hoosiers tied the game with a nine-play, 70-yard drive that carried into the fourth quarter.
Williams and Lucas set Indiana up for the tying touchdown with big runs, then Josh Henderson converted a fourth-and-1 with a 2-yard run to the MSU 1. He scored on the next play.
MSU marched 70 yards in 14 plays, giving Patton a chance to win it with a 22-yard field-goal attempt. But the left-footed Auburn transfer missed wide left, and had his 28-yard attempt blocked in overtime after a high snap.
However, the Spartans’ Michael Fletcher blocked Indiana kicker Charles Campbell’s 27-yard field-goal attempt to send the game to a second overtime.
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Michigan State football blows game to Indiana, 39-31, in 2OT
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DEWITT — Caledonia might not be quite a known commodity, but the Fighting Scots’ stock is on the rise.
In a dominating semifinal performance Saturday afternoon at snowy, frigid and wind-swept DeWitt, the Fighting Scots booked their trip to the Division 1 finals at Ford Field with a convincing 21-0 victory over Clarkston.
Caledonia (12-1), which will take on defending champion Belleville (13-0), last won a state title in 2005 in Division 3.
Clarkston’s high-octane offense, relying primarily on running back Ethan Clark (21 carries for 115 yards), couldn’t get anything going against a stout Caledonia defense led by linebacker Derek Pennington Jr., the son of the Caledonia second-year coach Derek Sr.
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“I don’t want to make it about my son, but it is a special thing coaching your own son,” the second-year head coach said. “Obviously, he made some big plays on defense for us and caught the touchdown to put us 21-0, but he’s one of 60 dudes and to be honest, I love them all. So, they’re all sons to me.”
Caledona’s three-pronged running attack led by quarterback Mason McKenzie (18 carries for 98 yards), Blake Herron (11 for 91) and Brock Townsend (16 for 53) ran right up the gut and made life miserable for the Wolves’ defense.
“The whole week we were practicing in the snow, we were always thinking countering and just running hard,” said Herron, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound junior. “All of us just have that mindset to go out there and plow them over and just keep on going. The guys’ up front ... none of us could do it without them. They put in the work and they’re one of the biggest parts of this team for sure. Those guys, I love them all. They’re amazing up front.”
Late in the game, McKenzie limped off the field and had to be helped off the sideline.
“He (McKenzie) is fine,” Pennington Sr. said. “He just turned his ankle a little bit. Mason gets a little concerned about his ankle because he had the one ankle sprain. He’ll be icing that down and ready to go next weekend.”
Trailing 14-0 to start second half the Wolves gambled and tried an onside kick, but Caledonia’s Tyler Burd came down with the ball in mid-air after it glanced off a teammate at the Clarkston 49.
And seven plays later, McKenzie found Pennington Jr., the 6-2, 225-pound tight end, on a seam route up the middle for a 20-yard TD pass putting the Fighting Scots up 21-0 with 7:32 to go in the third.
“I kept telling my dad, ‘We’ve got to throw the ball, they’re getting heavy in the box,’ so I reached out in the flat in the man’s zone and just caught it, so that was about it,” Pennington Jr. said. “Most of the balls that I get are surprises because I don’t get the ball much, but I was great.”
Clarkston (10-3) got into the red zone on the following possession, but with 1:36 left Jaxon Engelberg sacked Clarkston QB Steven Kossak for an 8-yard loss on fourth-and-14 to end the threat.
The Fighting Scots defense then came up to three fourth-quarter interceptions — two by Townsend and one by Jimmie Floyd — to seal the victory.
“That was a really good Clarkston football team, they had beaten Davison, Rochester Adams, they scored a ton of points and they scored zero on us today,” the Caledonia coach said. “I thought we dominated on both sides of the ball. We were the most physical team. We were the most excited team to play and we were Caledonia tough.”
The Fighting Scots took a 14-0 lead at halftime thanks to a 28-yard TD run up the middle by Herron with 3:02 to play in the second quarter following a nine-play, 73-yard drive.
On its second possession of the opening quarter, Caledonia struck first with a methodical 13-play, 63-yard — all run plays — capped by Townsend’s 1-yard TD with 3:59 to go in the first.
Clarkston’s best chance to score in the first half came after Clark ripped off a 44-yard run down to the Caledonia 23, but two straight penalties thwarted the drive backing up the Wolves who could not convert on fourth-and-14.
Meanwhile, the Caledonia defense held Clarkston to just four first-half first downs. Clark had 12 carries for 84 yards in the first half, but the Wolves had only 14 other yards over the first two quarters.
“Credit to them, they did a nice job defensively but I felt like every time where we got in position where we were close to scoring something happened that we shot ourselves in the foot, whether it was penalties or mistakes,” first-year coach Justin Pintar said. “It was one of those days where we didn’t have things going. We had a couple of big plays and opportunities where we could score touchdowns — I thought we were in position — then just one thing or another ended the drives for us. It was one of those days where you don’t have it.”
Clark, who is headed to play at Princeton, leaves quite a legacy for the Wolves.
“He’s phenomenal football player, just a great talent and just an even better kid,” Pintar said. “And that’s what you’re going to miss. He’s just a great young man and he gives everything he has every day at practice. Never says boo, never complains, just goes about his business. You’re going to miss any kid like that.”
Meanwhile, the last time the Fighting Scots captured a state title was 17 years ago, but now they’re on the cusp once again.
“We just want to live up to their standards, it’s amazing, it’s great,” Pennington Jr. said. “We were lifting weights all off season, working hard, it’s the hard work paying off and we deserve to go to Ford Field.”
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Even by Ann Arbor Pioneer’s standards, this one was pretty strong.
The Pioneers won six of 12 events — recording seven automatic All-American times — and motored to their third consecutive Division 1 swimming and diving state championship on Saturday at Oakland University. Pioneer scored 322 points to finish well ahead of runner-up Northville (218), Saline (174), and Farmington Hills Mercy and Grand Haven (tied for fourth with 167 apiece).
“Our main goal for the season was not for setting the records or the times, but swimming for each other, because we knew we had a target on our back and we knew we had something to prove,” said junior Stella Chapman, who figured in four first-place finishes.
Chapman won the individual medley (2:01.91) and the backstroke (54.07), plus swam legs on the Pioneers’ medley relay (1:43.19) and 400-meter freestyle relay (3:24.90). But it was far from a one-person show: the Pioneers occupied the top steps of the awards platform throughout the afternoon.
Lucy Mehraban won the 50 free (23.07) and finished second (49.93) behind teammate Sophia Guo (49.89) in the 100 free — all of which are All-American standards.
Even in the relay the Pioneers didn’t win — the 200 free, where they were second behind Grand Haven (1:34.57) — their time of 1:34.81 was still fast enough to hit the cutoff for All-American consideration.
It’s the Pioneers’ third straight team title, and 19th overall.
“From start to finish, this team is a real joy to coach,” head coach Stefanie Kerska said. “From the freshmen on the team to the veterans, they take the accountability of the tradition of this program real serious, and from day one they went to work. We weren’t really planning on taking anything else (but first place) home today.”
“We knew we were expected to be there,” Chapman said. “We had to train at a certain level. We had to prepare for everything. We didn’t take anything for granted, we knew we had to work for it, regardless. Starting on day one, we made it our goal to be very precise in what we do and make sure everything had a reason, then we knew it would work out in the end if we didn’t worry about all the different competition that we had.”
Actually, some of the Pioneers’ competition was pretty solid as well. Livonia Stevenson’s McKenzie Siroky won the breaststroke by four seconds in 1:00.27, a day after setting an all-time record of 1:00.07 in Friday’s preliminary heats.
“You don’t take anyone lightly; every swim is all-out,” she said. “My key is I like to go all-out, as fast as I can like it’s the 50 in the medley relay, and from there I take it one 25(-yard segment) at a time. I think I’ve just got to get to the next wall, then bring it home, bring it home.”
West Bloomfield freshman Elizabeth Eichbrecht was a double-winner in the distance events, taking the 200 (1:48.42) and the 500 (4:52.71). Northville senior Emily Roden won the butterfly with an automatic All-American time (54.05), and Saline senior Alice English was the champion diver (419.90 points).
East Grand Rapids moved up a class after winning the Division 3 title last fall, and was able to continue its success against a new field of competitors. The Pioneers totaled 280 points, ahead of Jenison (219), three-time defending champ Birmingham Seaholm (181) and Grand Rapids Northview (181) on Saturday at Calvin University.
East only won once, the 200 free relay, with Caroline Flermoen, Alysa Hein, Ellery Chandler and Kate Simon (1:36.44), but scored points from the championship heat in 10 of the 12 events.
Dexter senior Lily Witte set an all-class record in one-meter diving, scoring 554.65 points for her 11 dives. Jenison sophomore Sophia Umstead won the individual medley (2:00.33) and the breaststroke (1:01.11).
With East Grand Rapids moving up, that cleared a path for Birmingham Marian to claim the Division 3 title at Holland Aquatic Center. The Mustangs had 245 points to edge top-ranked Holland Christian (230.5) and second-ranked Milan (208).
Marian’s Rachel Bellow won the individual medley (2:06.08) and breastroke (1:04.55), and swam on the two Mustang champion relays: the medley with Lily Low, Marianna Becharas and Axelle Ballarin (1:48.67), and the 200 free with Low, Ballarin and Lena McKenney (1:38.72).
It was the fourth title in school history for the Mustangs.
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MHSAA girls swimming and diving: Ann Arbor Pioneer three-peats
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If Nicki Minaj was playing, Ki'Azia Miller was dancing.
"She loved Nicki Minaj," Miller's little sister, Di'Azia Cruz, 23, said, smiling. "Anything she could get a little rhythm to, she was dancing. We used to have dance battles."
Memories of Miller and her dance moves remind the family of who their loved one was: someone who was full of love and life, whose loyalty inspired others, who had a deeply funny sense of humor. But those memories also serve as a reminder that Miller had more life to live.
She was 27 when, on Nov. 10, Detroit police shot and killed her at her west-side home. Miller's mother, Lakisha Washington-Meeks, had called the police because her daughter — who she said was diagnosed with schizophrenia — had been experiencing a mental health crisis, had been armed with a bat, knives and gun, and allegedly hit her son.
Detroit Police Chief James White said three officers shot four rounds at Miller during an alleged struggle for a gun, although members of Miller's family are skeptical of that claim. Body camera footage has not been released, unlike the October police killing of Porter Burks, 20, a short distance away from Miller's home. Burks was also diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been wandering around his home with a 3.5-inch knife when five police officers shot 38 rounds at him, fatally striking him 19 times.
"I don't know how to process this. My sister needed help," Cruz said, held by family members in front of Miller's home, where she was killed.
"They took my sister from this earth. And it was not her time. It was not her time."
More:Two Detroit officers, one supervisor suspended after fatal shooting of woman
The family had gathered Saturday for a vigil to honor Miller, to demand justice. The large sign reading "Justice For Kiazia" — with Miller's name bedazzled in pink, her favorite color — in front of the home is hardly unnoticeable. It demands attention.
Also at the vigil: pink shirts, pink candles, pink balloons, pink pins. Miller's face everywhere. Warm embraces. Sobs. Laughs. Memories exchanged. "Say her name" chants.
Her family wants her name to be known, they said. They want the world to know that she mattered. She was loved.
"No matter what people are saying about her, I just want to let people know, the police need to do its job. They need to care for our people," Miller's cousin, Daizon Brown, 23, said. Then he broke down in tears.
"If that was one of (their) family members, would they react like that? They wouldn't react like that. They would sit down and they would talk to these people, and they would show love and care. And they would talk them down and bring them outside. ... I just want that, the same thing to happen for my family members. The people who look like us, the people who I'm standing with."
In a video taken by Miller moments before the shooting, she says to an officer seemingly hiding behind a tree in her front yard: "You had a gun pointed on me because you all got a phone call. Are you serious? You all came with guns drawn. ... You all prepared to shoot, right?"
The officer responded that the police on scene don't want to get hurt. Then a second officer aggressively and abruptly enters the home. The video becomes shaky. It sounds like the officer then yells "Shut your god damn ass," "Don't reach for that god damn gun," and the video ends.
Following the killing , White suspended two officers and one supervisor, with a recommendation to the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners that they are suspended without pay. The officers are being evaluated for potential reductions of ranks. An additional supervisor was taken off the streets and assigned a desk job.
White also said that crisis intervention training his officers receive is effective and has resulted in numerous positive outcomes, but it's not "foolproof." He called Miller's death regrettable and said more needs to be done for those struggling with mental illness. The city is in a "mental health crisis," he said.
Miller's family said that's not enough. "I want justice for my sister, and I will not stop," Cruz said.
Miller was a woman of many talents and a lover of hip-hop, sneakers, beauty, fashion, family members said. Her two children were her world, Washington-Meeks said.
"She was a wonderful mother; she was a wonderful daughter," she said. "I miss her, so much."
And despite Miller's mental health struggles, "she was always looking for love," Cruz said.
She's going to miss the talks she'd have with her big sister, about the future, about the past. The way they'd crack jokes to each other. And if Cruz has kids of her own one day, she wants them to know that Miller was a fighter who fought for what she believed in.
"She always taught me to believe in myself. She would always tell me, 'Anything you want to do, you can do it, and I'm right behind you,' " Cruz said.
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Detroit Pistons (3-14) vs. Sacramento Kings (8-6)
Where: Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.
Betting line: Kings by 9.
Game notes: The Pistons are looking to stop a six-game losing streak and will be doing so without one of their best players, Cade Cunningham. Not only has the 2021 No. 1 overall pick missed the past five games, he is likely to miss multiple weeks and could need surgery. Expect to see more offense from Jaden Ivey, Bogan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks. Saddiq Bey will be out for the Pistons, too.
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The Kings have topped 120 points in six of their last seven, with their only loss in that stretch a 116-113 defeat to the Golden State Warriors. De'Aaron Fox leads the team in points per game (24.8) assists (6.4) and steals (1.2) while Domantas Sabonis is also playing like an All-Star (17.7 points, 10.8 rebounds and 5.9 assists).
Up next for the Kings: the Memphis Grizzlies, missing star Ja Morant, on Tuesday. The Pistons, on their yearly trip out West, go from three games in California to Colorado for a meeting with another offensive juggernaut, the Nuggets on Tuesday. They stay on the road until Nov. 27.
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Detroit Pistons game vs. Sacramento Kings: TV, time, radio info
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Here are the winners of the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces.
The Free Press partnered with Philadelphia-based Energage, an employee research and culture technology firm, for the 15th year to determine this year's winners.
The rankings are based solely on employee survey feedback that is then analyzed based on Energage's objective criteria. Energage performs the surveys for media partners in metropolitan areas across the United States.
Any organization — public, private, nonprofit, government — with 50 or more employees in Michigan was eligible to participate.
2022 Large Michigan Top Workplaces
2022 Midsize Michigan Top Workplaces
2022 Small Michigan Top Workplaces
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2022 Michigan Top Workplaces winners lists
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“In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, we said we wanted to come out of this stronger than we were going in, so the question for us coming into this year was are we doing enough for our staff?,” Proppe explained.
However, while Proppe may have posed the question to his leadership, he revealed that the group most qualified to provide a response was, in fact, Plante Moran’s entire workforce and once that was done, the real fun began.
“We asked the staff what will help them the most?” Proppe recalled. “But that’s like going out and asking 40 people on the street about something. You’re likely to get 40 different ideas, and one size fits one.”
Ultimately, Proppe said an answer was found which addressed the needs of Plante Moran’s entire workforce in the form of a “balance fund,” that provides reimbursement for personal experiences and activities that bring balance to the lives of individual team members. A short list of ways the fund has been used reported includes student loans, technology, child care, support for parents and cooking classes.
And just as the fund has reimbursed team members for a wide variety of helpful and empowering endeavors, Proppe says the way team members and their families have expressed their approval has come in many forms as well, including a note penned by a staff member which read: “Thanks Plante Moran for help with our vacation!”
Top leadership: Jim Proppe, managing partner
Employees: 3,135 (Global); 1,943 (Michigan).
Website: plantemoran.com
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Asking the right question produces an empowering outcome at Plante Moran
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Pride can be heard in Adam Oberski’s voice as he declares the kind of company he thinks employees want to work for.
“People want to work for well-run and consistent organizations,” said Oberski, the broker-owner of Century 21 Curran & Oberski, the top-ranked midsize company in the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition.
That pride also comes through when he describes the “North Star,” which guides team members to success at four metro locations.
But it is passion that comes through when Oberski expresses his admiration for his team.
“I’m not a fan of titles; some of the best leaders I have aren’t part of 'management;' I direct traffic, I’m boots on the ground every day, but I am humbled and honored to work with some of the top real estate professionals in the United States,” said Oberski of his team, which also engages in numerous community service activities across southeastern Michigan, including Habitat for Humanity, “Suits for Soldiers,” initiatives that help homeless veterans and countless more.
In recent years Oberski and several of his team members have participated in endurance athletic events that require extensive periods of arduous training before event day. He explained that his company applies a similar approach to business.
“The people we see in marathons and triathlons are being rewarded publicly for what they have done privately,” Oberski stated. “It’s the same thing with our business because our top producers and staff are doing the hard work, day in, and day out, even when it’s hard. The most important thing is always the standard."
While his team is committed to the same high standard, Oberski says his agents come in many varieties and that is where his company’s teamwork comes into play.
“All of the agents have different styles,” Oberski explained. “But they love being in a room together, where they openly share and always go the extra mile to help one another out.
Century 21 Curran & Oberski
Industry: Real estate residential and commercial services
Top leadership: Adam Oberski, Broker-Owner
Home: Northville, Royal Oak, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights
Website: c21curranoberski.com
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Going the extra mile is standard at Century 21 Curran & Oberski
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Somewhere in the vast Spotify universe a playlist can be found featuring music that is heard in the offices of Jeff Glover & Associates. That is the same Jeff Glover & Associates, which earned the No. 2 ranking among small companies in the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition.
And the man who leads the Plymouth-based real estate company says the “Live Unreal” playlist — featuring “high-energy” hip-hop, rock and country music — is an important contributor to the “good vibe” that people have come to expect within his office spaces.
“Our environment is high energy,” said Glover, who explained that the playlist made its way to Spotify after visitors to his offices and events asked where the music could be found. “We have high-energy music, people giving each other high-fives and ringing bells for closings.”
Glover says another reason for JGA’s positive work environment is the feeling of empowerment felt by agents that are highly respected by the company’s leadership team.
“No one has a better feel for the pulse of our market and the people we serve than our agents,” Glover stated. “They understand the challenges that we face and they provide solutions to our leadership committee. Our agents have a say in everything we do.”
And as a thank you for agents' expertise and input, Glover says agents are often rewarded with special prizes including trips to the Tropics and one-hour shopping sprees at Somerset Mall in Troy.
But beyond the music and flashy gifts and prizes, Glover revealed that there is another unifying force that strengthens his team while helping the local community.
“Our entire team is very active in our foundation,” said Glover in reference to “Glover’s Heroes Fund,” which provides assistance to local veterans, police officers, employed caregivers, nurses, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and teachers.
Jeff Glover & Associates
Top leadership: Jeff Glover, owner
Location: Plymouth
Employees: 63 (Michigan); 79 (U.S.)
Website: jeffgloverassociates.com
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'High-energy vibe' powers positive culture at Jeff Glover & Associates
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Honigman LLP makes a strong case by valuing team members' feedback
In a year of stressful and sometimes dividing circumstances, team members at Detroit-based Honigman LLP pulled closer together, reports the business law firm’s leadership.
“Like many employers throughout the pandemic, leadership continues to be impressed by how effectively team members work in a hybrid-work environment,” said Jill Pace, chief human resources officer at Honigman, which earned the No. 5 ranking among large companies in the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition. "The success has helped us all adjust our historical biases that work can only be conducted effectively in the office. This has been a remarkable time of adjustment and adaptation and has proven to be the silver lining of an otherwise stressful and trying time."
Beyond where Honigman’s attorneys and other staff performed their work, Pace revealed that an external factor of enormous magnitude also presented a challenge to her firm’s workplace culture and harmony during 2022.
“When the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision (the June ruling reversing Roe v. Wade), it had a profound effect on many of our team members,” Pace explained. “We held several town hall meetings to allow people to express how they felt the firm could best support them. As a result of the feedback received, the firm adjusted policies to facilitate people engaging in the issue regardless of their ideology. Ultimately, as with all families, opinions vary, but the firm’s goal was to make sure everyone felt supported and that mutual respect was maintained. We believe we accomplished that goal.”
As 2022 winds down, Pace describes the relationship between Honigman’s leadership team and leadership as “responsive” and “strengthened” largely due to the way her firm values feedback from team members.
“Throughout 2022, our firm’s leadership regularly sought feedback from all of our team members,” Pace stated. “By taking the time to listen to our team members, we believe leadership’s relationship with team members is strengthened and overall team member engagement is robust. Both of which are critical to maintaining our long tradition of excellence in the service of our firm’s clients.”
Top leadership: David Foltyn, chairman, chief executive officer
Location: Detroit
Website: honigman.com
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Real Estate One's leadership met sudden changes in the market with teaching
Real Estate One is entering its fourth generation as a family-owned business and key to the company’s sustained growth has been a willingness to educate team members during times of sudden change, says Dan Elsea, Real Estate One’s president of brokerage services.
“Our whole industry is dealing with the challenge of a changed market, but we have always grown and our top sales associates have always grown when the market changes, either up or down,” explained Elsea, whose company ranked second among large companies in the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition. “This is our biggest opportunity to teach and educate our sales people.
“We had a chance to do this in 2020, when we couldn’t sell real estate for 60 days. We spent the balance of that year teaching our organization’s sales associates and loan officers how to take advantage of the sudden change. And we took off out of 2020 with a couple of our best years, so we have dusted off those manuals and we’re doing it again.”
Elsea said the learning has become a two-way process, as the leadership has learned how to best serve the needs of a team that now performs a significant amount of work away from Real Estate One’s physical office space.
“The willingness to adjust, and to adjust the physical structure of our organization for our employees, certainly shows our commitment to giving them a different way to do their jobs and that is something they appreciate,’ Elsea said.
And through all of the education and adjustment, Real Estate One reports that its community-service efforts–driven by its charitable foundation– have also been bolstered.
“This year we’ll end up raising more than a million dollars, which we’ve never done before, for a host of Michigan-based organizations,” said Stuart Elsea, president of financial services. “It brings people together from various areas of our companies, and with so many people working remotely, bringing people together is more important than ever. And our folks have just done a great job of giving back to the community, which is what it’s all about.”
Real Estate One
Industry: Real estate and affiliated services
Top leadership: Dan Elsea, president, Brokerage Services; Stuart Elsea, president, Financial Services
Website: www.realestateone.com
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The best workplaces in Michigan cure challenges with communication
The global microchip shortage and global supply chain shortage; the implementation of new technology; replacing a longtime, respected CEO, and rising mortgage rates are just a sampling of the challenges faced by some of the top-ranked companies from the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition.
While the challenges vary by company and industry, leaders from the companies agree that solving these challenges starts and ends with effectively communicating with employees at all levels of their organizations.
“It always drills down to communication,” said Coleen Murphy-DeOrsey, president and co-owner of Bingham Farms-based Optimal Home Care, which has been ranked as a Top Workplace for nine consecutive years.
For the nurse-owned and operated Optimal Home Care, a colorful, two-page newsletter, which was distributed via email as a PDF and also mailed in paper form to team members' homes, resulted in “unexpected positive feedback” during a year when the agency transitioned to new electronic records.
Such was the case for Southfield-headquartered Plante Moran, which has been ranked as a Top Workplace for 13 consecutive years.
The question “What will help you the most” was posed to staff members at Plante Moran, which employs more than 3,000 people globally and more than 1,900 in Michigan.
Initially Jim Proppe, Plante Moran’s managing partner, felt that the question would yield an unmanageable number of responses, but the outcome was the establishment of a “balance fund” that provides reimbursement for personal experiences and activities that bring balance to the lives of individual team members. Plante Moran employees have used the fund for student loans, technology, child care, support for parents, cooking classes and much more.
At Troy-headquartered Towne Mortgage Company, a Top Workplace the past two years, employee feedback provided through surveys has been a game-changer, and in some ways, life changing.
“We survey our team members all the time and we try to respond to every response we receive,” said Monica Horger, Towne Mortgage Company’s chief people officer. “There was one team member whose child has autism and he asked us to add a rider to our benefit coverage to cover autism and we looked into it and we added the rider. We want to make sure we’re taking care of each person as a person, and while that may not always be feasible, we do the best we can when it comes to providing benefits and taking care of families as well as our team members.”
Like Towne Mortgage Company, East Lansing-headquartered GreenStone Farm Credit Services has received the Top Workplaces distinction in consecutive years and GreenStone also relies heavily on a survey. Each quarter, employees take part in an employee engagement survey to allow the organization’s leadership to “retain a current pulse of employee perspectives and determine processes that are working and areas that require further attention,” said Melissa Rogers, vice president of marketing and public relations for GreenStone, a member-owned cooperative, which serves 28,000 members in Michigan and northeast Wisconsin and is undergoing its most significant software implementation in the organization’s 106-year history. Rogers added: “Through external employee surveys, we have found our team engaged and a part of the greater good.”
Companies among the 200 that made the 2022 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces list, the 15th year of the competition, also cited instances when team-building events sparked much needed communication among employees while also benefiting good causes outside of the communities where the companies do business.
At Southfield-based Real Estate One, a Top Workplace for 12 consecutive years, Stuart Elsea, president of financial services, referred to the company’s community-service activities as a “uniter,” as team members from various areas of the organization have come together to support causes that they are passionate about, including Special Olympics.
And then there was a weekend assembly line scene with about 50-60 people wearing hair nets and gloves, while tossing 80-pound bags of wheat and flour, during the preparation of 17,000 meals for people in need. This scene was described by Simon Thomas and Reina Snively, the CEO and operations director respectively at Birmingham-based DOBI Real Estate, which was founded the summer of 2018 and has been a Top Workplace the past two years.
“The charitable aspect of our business has been No. 1 throughout the year,” said Snively, who also described a similar assembly line when her team came together to mass produce “Superman Boxes” with items designed to excite and engage foster children. Thomas added: “When we prepared the meals, from a team-building standpoint, it was amazing. Everyone was laughing and having fun and afterwards we all realized what goes into preparing 17,000 meals. It was cool–priceless.”
Contact Scott Talley: stalley@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @STalleyfreep.
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I went to a play on Broadway this week, a matinee, and was impressed by the usher in our aisle who was elaborately kind to everyone, managing a stream of elderly customers confused by row numbers, pointing them to seats while maintaining pleasant small talk, reminding them to turn off their phones, directing them to washrooms (downstairs) or to the counter that offers hearing devices, handing out programs. His competence was stunning and dramatic — and he did it against the clock and never was caustic though he had a right to be, dealing with the dither.
The rest of the crowd was working hard to appreciate the play because, though dull, it was rather dark, and so people around me watched intensely as if this were Drama 101 and afterward we’d divide up into discussion groups and they wanted to think up intelligent things to say about the threat of fascism in our own time, and not just “I didn’t care for it.”
But I felt no need to be the smartest person in the audience. Failure holds no fear for me -- I’ve been there repeatedly -- so I checked out of the play and thought about Mozart.
Conjuring beauty from squalor and suffering
The night before the play, I’d gone to a concert with a Mozart violin concerto in it and found it astounding, the lightness and gaiety, the brilliance of the playing, the sheer beauty Mozart put in the hands of the soloist -- and all this in the 18th century, when a cruel aristocracy sat on thrones, abysmal poverty was the rule, men were hanged for thievery, and people perished miserably from the ignorance of infection and antiseptics.
Mozart was sick for a great deal of his life, suffering smallpox, pneumonia, rheumatism, typhoid fever, his wife Constanze agonizing over him, and died at 35 but it was his gift to create beauty and to entertain. People are still laughing at the jokes in "The Marriage of Figaro." The violin concerto I heard was joyful and the violinist made it clear that he loved it, too. He was finding expressive freedom within a strict form, the best of the 18th century brought to the 21st.
Finding his calling
The play ended and the audience gave it a standing ovation of course and I put on my coat. The usher stood by the door, thanking people for coming, wishing them a pleasant day, and also pointing out a treacherous step and preventing them from falling and crashing headfirst into the brick wall and suffering a hematoma and winding up in the ER with drunks and lunatics. I don’t remember much of the play, but I remember his kindness. I wonder if he’s maybe an unemployed actor who’s thrown himself into the ushering role and found his true calling.
Mozart had a right to share his suffering with us by writing music that makes us sick, but instead he was an usher, directing us into a joyful realm of playfulness in which we become happier than we had intended to be. And he gave that violinist the chance to be so brilliant, we brought him back for three bows. Then we got a cab and resumed the struggle.
Garrison Keillor is an author, singer, humorist, and radio personality. He hosted the nationally syndicated Minnesota Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" for 42 years.
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2022-11-20T13:02:12Z
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Opinion: The play was meh, but the usher was superb
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NANCY KAFFER
Rural Michigan Democrats are in a unique bind. The problems facing residents of rural Michigan counties ― insufficient access to health care, jobs and high-performing schools, or inadequate infrastructure, including broadband internet ― aren't so different from the ones the rest of the state confronts.
But rural Democrats don't have a voice. In the state Legislature and in the U.S. Congress, they are represented almost exclusively by Republican lawmakers who tend to oppose Democratic legislation even when it addresses their constituents' critical needs.
Take President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill, which includes funding to expand broadband internet in rural America. Outgoing U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, was one of just 13 House Republicans, and the only GOP member of Michigan's Congressional delegation, to vote for it, although U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, who voted against it, was eager to take credit for the expansion in a campaign ad.
The GOP-controlled state Legislature has blocked investments in roads and education, and only barely passed the federal Medicaid expansion, which offered healthcare to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Michiganders.
Now, for the first time in nearly 40 years, Democrats who prioritize those policies hold a majority in in the state Legislature. But Albro and her caucus know that even a party ascendant has limited resources, and making the case for renewed party investment in the areas they represent is a long game.
Still, rural Democrats say, their party should be careful not to count them out, because it needs their votes to keep winning statewide offices.
On the margins
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer easily won re-election earlier this month with 54.4% of the vote. New, bipartisan maps and victories in handful of seats were crucial to the Michigan Democrats legislative flip ― like state Rep.-elect Joey Andrews' win in the new 38th House District, comprising parts of Allegan, Berrien and Van Buren counties, with 50.5% of the vote.
But Whitmer's margin of victory was built, in part, in rural Michigan. Places like Berrien County, where GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon took 51.7% of the vote, but 26,384 Democrats cast ballots for Whitmer. Or Allegan County, where Dixon won 58% of voters, but 22,802 voted for Whitmer. In Van Buren, it was 50% for Dixon, and 15,347 votes for Whitmer. All told, voters outside Michigan’s 10 most populous counties – the 73 counties comprising roughly 36% of the state’s population – cast 723,605 ballots for Whitmer, who beat her opponent by less than half a million votes.
"I feel like we were a big part of Gov. Whitmer’s win, a big part of President Biden’s (2020) win," Albro said. "We helped this time for the top three women on the ballot."
With more resources, rural Dems contend, Democrats can continue to deliver votes outstate -- and, in time, to compete in legislative races there.
Investment in rural areas absolutely makes sense for Michigan Democrats, Democratic operative Adrian Hemond said.
"(Michigan Democratic Party Chair) Lavora Barnes is a student of former President Barack Obama, who is a big believer in losing by less in the areas where you’re going to lose," Hemond said. "So if turnout is down in the city of Detroit, as it was this year, you have votes in other areas." (A spokeswoman for Barnes hadn't responded to a request for comment by late Friday.)
And Hemond agrees that in the right circumstances, rural Michigan can be competitive, "especially in the current political moment, where we’re in the midst of realignment."
Democrats aren't going to win a lot of rural counties, said Mark Brewer, a former chair of the state party. "But we can’t get blown out, either. We need to keep the margin as close as possible. If we just abandon rural areas and start losing them 70%-30%, it’s going to be hard to win a statewide contest."
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The 2016 presidential election was a galvanizing moment for Michigan's rural Democrats.
"People woke up and realized they needed to get serious about talking to folks who weren’t already part of our political coalition or who felt alienated from our coalition," said Evan Bonsall, the first treasurer of the party's rural caucus. In 2017, Bonsall was a student at Harvard University, splitting his time between Cambridge and his hometown of Marquette, a place he describes as "an island of blue" in the Upper Peninsula. He left the caucus to run for the Marquette City Commission, an office he currently holds. "We wanted to focus on holding our own in rural areas, and maybe regaining some of the ground we had lost."
But recruiting Democratic candidates in overwhelmingly Republican counties was hard, and those who did take up the challenge were hobbled by lack of funding, and a lack of support from the state party. A 1966 law that determines apportionment of county commission seats, unaffected by a 2018 state constitutional amendment that created bipartisan redistricting for state and federal legislative districts, perpetuates gerrymandering on those boards. Conservative small-town newspapers, rural Democrats say, are less likely to run stories or letters to the editor highlighting Democratic accomplishments.
Joanne Galloway, executive director of northern Michigan advocacy group Center for Change, said that after 2016 a group of Democrats active in rural county parties concluded that they "needed to do a better job to advance rural issues, and in getting the message out."
"The feeling was that people with the Michigan Democratic Party, and Democrats in southeast Michigan, don’t pay attention to rural Democrats," said Dixon Dudderar, the Region 4 Vice Chair of the rural caucus, representing Emmet, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, Alpena and Charlevoix counties. "We wanted to create a caucus where people from the areas outside the city limits in Michigan would ask for more recognition and a little bit more help."
The distance between rural Democrats was an obstacle. But during the pandemic, Albro said, "We started meeting on Zoom, and we expanded the membership tenfold, because we could have a Zoom meeting, instead of driving into Lansing."
Members have begun to adopt a coordinated communications strategy, and this year, formed a political action committee, MI Rural PAC, that supported 63 rural candidates, albeit with small amounts — $250 for candidates for county office, and $500 for legislative seats.
"Candidates get training from Michigan Democratic Party, but don’t get any financial assistance," says Michael Fields, the caucus' Region 12 vice-chair, composed of Clare, Gladwin, Osceola, Roscommon, Ogemaw and Arenac counties. "People have to feel that running for office isn’t a financial burden to themselves."
To get serious candidates, Albro says, "Not just to put their names on the ballot and never campaign, we have to support them, and that means financial support."
'Everything'
What does the caucus need?
"Everything," Albro says.
That means showing up in every way possible.
"People in those towns have not seen anybody deliver for them," said Brewer said. "They tend to blame Democrats, tend to blame the unions, and over the course of time there's been this growing urban/suburban/rural divide, and I think it’s toxic to our politics. We've got to find a way that Dems can appeal to, and do things for, those communities, and get elected in those communities again."
Much of rural Michigan used to be Democratic, Fields noted. "Ronald Reagan convinced people the government couldn’t do anything right for you, then with NAFTA, people said, 'I don’t see the Democrats doing me any favors,' and drifted away," he said.
Bonsall says that conversations with the state party often center around messaging, Bonsall says, when the subject should be messengers.
"The right messengers are your local community leaders who maybe have never run for office before, maybe wouldn’t even describe as super partisan Democrats, but have been involved in their communities, care about those communities and whose experiences allow them to relate to people in their communities," he said.
He's convinced Democratic candidates' visits to the U.P. this cycle helped keep Republican margins smaller than they might have been. "You're not only showing you care about a community, but you're making it difficult for the attack ads to turn you into an evil caricature of a person," he said.
Democrats emphasize that that rural and urban Michigan have a lot of the same problems. But the elephant in the room is racism. Galloway and Brewer its easy to characterize initiatives that benefit the entire state as sops to populous southeast Michigan counties with larger minority populations. "The Republican Party keeps playing on that — Detroit and other urban areas are enemies, they’re dangerous — when there’s more that unites us than divides us," Brewer said.
The rural caucus' organizers readily admit they've got a lot of road to cover. "We’re not going to happen overnight," Albro says. "It’s a long game."
But Albro has been one of those candidates she hopes to recruit. In 2018, she ran against Libertarian U.S. Rep. Justin Amash. In this year's election, she lost the race for the new 104th District seat to Republican John Roth.
"I got 37% of my district," she says. Viewed from one angle, it's a decisive loss. But as Albro puts it, "That means 37% chose me, a Democrat. "Let’s start with that."
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2022-11-20T15:01:53Z
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Opinion | Dems in red counties strive for representation in Lansing
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WINDSOR:Michigan football's win Saturday was big deal for Jim Harbaugh, sets up Ohio State main event
GRADES ARE IN:Lack of creativity on both sides nearly proves costly
Mazi Smith: Earlier this week, and frankly all season, coaches and teammates praised the defensive lineman for doing more than his statistics show. He's a block destruction specialist, one of defensive coordinator Jesse Minter's favorite keys to a successful interior lineman. The team couldn't generate a pass rush Saturday and struggled for a few quarters slowing down the nation's leading rusher, Chase Brown. Smith stepped up with a team-high five tackles on 29 rushing attempts while he was on the field − only two other players (Mason Graham and Kris Jenkins) had more than one. While youngsters like Graham and Kenneth Grant made notable plays, Smith was the consistent force to limit Illinois to 17 points.
Ronnie Bell: Nobody had a good day in the passing game for Michigan. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy and wide receivers looked to be on different pages multiple times and while that did happen with Ronnie Bell, two of the better passing plays came his direction too. On the second play of the game, McCarthy flipped a pass on a flat route to bell, who took it 15 yards up the right sideline. After catching a six-yard pass two drives later, he was on the receiving end of the best pass play all day − a 22-yard completion that McCarthy fit in the open space along the sideline against what appeared to be a cover-2 and Bell went up and grabbed it even with a safety headed his way at full speed.
That's all he finished with, three catches for 43 yards on seven targets. But while he didn't have a reception in the second half, he did return a punt 40 yards early in the fourth quarter − his first game playing on special teams since he tore his ACL on a punt return in the 2021 season-opener − to give the Wolverines some much needed field position, which ultimately led to a key three points.
Andrel Anthony: It seems as if just about every week, there's a different receiver on the "three down" portion of this exercise. This week, it's East Lansing native Andrel Anthony. It's been well documented that the Wolverines have struggled to connect on the deep ball this year with any consistency (heck, even at all in Big Ten play) and Saturday was no different. The team completed just 2-of-10 passes that were more than 10 yards down the field, but Anthony had a chance at what would've been perhaps the most important passing play of the season. Down 17-10, Michigan had the ball on fourth-and-7 at the Illinois 37.
McCarthy threw one of the two best balls of the day, putting enough air on the deep pass for Anthony to run underneath it, however it bounced off his hands and fell to the ground as defenders converged, dropping what would've been a game-tying touchdown and resulting in a turnover-on-downs with 2:41 to play in the third. Anthony didn't catch a pass on the day for the second straight week and has just two catches for five yards in the last five games (though he did fall on a Bell fumble for a score last week).
Braiden McGregor: Michigan's no-star defense is supposed to be exactly that. Not a star on the team who changes things the way Aidan Hutchinson did last year, but enough talent and speed across all the units to operate as a dominant group. Well, apparently Mike Morris (who has long been seen as the 'star' of the no-star group') was even more important than we thought.
Without the senior in the game − he dressed but didn't play after tweaking something in his lower body late in Nebraska game − Michigan couldn't generate a pass rush. Braiden McGregor started in his place and while the junior has been good at times this year, vs. Illinois he was a non-factor. McGregor didn't have a single tackle or hurry and of defensive players with at least 20 snaps, he graded out second from the bottom (50.5), his second worst performance of the season.
Roman Wilson: Roman Wilson, the speedster in the slot who is supposed to create mismatches against linebackers and be savvy enough to out-leverage a nickel or slot corner, had just one catch for nine yards. Granted, it was a big one, on fourth-down in Illinois territory which led to the second to last field goal for Moody, but it wasn't enough production.
Sure, there was some bad luck involved, when he caught a pass for 35 yards and it was negated by a holding penalty, but there were also times where he came up short, like on the third drive of the game and he dropped a ball that hit him in the numbers. Michigan is desperate for a wide receiver to step up and unlock this offense, but Wilson now has three consecutive games with just one catch (19 yards in total) and after scoring a touchdown in three of the first four weeks, hasn't scored since September.
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2022-11-20T20:28:45Z
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Michigan football stock watch: Pass catchers down — again
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Maxwell White was initiated into the mafia Sunday morning — the Bills Mafia, that is.
All the 18-year-old Buffalo Bills fan had to do was jump from a pickup truck onto a plastic table and smash it.
"We thought about bringing lighter fluid to light it on fire, but that might have been a little over the top," he said.
Downtown Detroit bustled with Bills and Cleveland Browns fans Sunday morning, many donning creative outfits with furry hats and head-to-toe paraphernalia. Families and friends huddled in bars and in parking lots, tailgating despite the bitter 20-degree weather.
Passersby shouted their support. Despite the cold and the foreign city, the football fans made themselves at home.
The Bills-Browns game was moved to Ford Field because a massive snowstorm put upwards of six feet of snow on the ground in Buffalo. Despite the last-minute change, the stadium sold 56,000 tickets, many to traveling fans.
When it was all over, the Bills fans were celebrating a 31-23 victory over Cleveland.
"This is Bills Mafia and they show up," said Kim Showalter, co-president of the Detroit Bills Backers.
Showalter, 31, grew up in Buffalo but has lived in Michigan for five years.
"(Being a Bills fan is) always knowing that wherever you go, in the U.S., and really sometimes in the world, you have family," Showalter said. "Mafia means family, that's our thing."
In the middle of the packed Firebird Tavern in Greektown, the Bills "Shout" song played over the loudspeakers, kicking the party into full gear.
Hundreds of fans sang along:
"Hey-ayyyyyyy-ayyyyyyyy-ayy! (Hey-ayyyyyyy-ayyyyyyyy-ayy!) Hey-ayyyyyyy-ayyyyyyyy-ayy! (Hey-ayyyyyyy-ayyyyyyyy-ayy!) Let's go Buffalo! Let's go Buffalo! Let's go Buffalo! Let's go Buffalo! The Bills make me wanna SHOUT!"
Bills fans have a reputation for being reckless, from breaking tables to starting fires to a loyal fan drenching himself in mustard and ketchup before each game.
"We're a rambunctious bunch," Showalter said. "It's whatever we can do to be loud and show our team as much support as we can."
Showalter is a table-breaking virgin — she's saving her first time for a Super Bowl win.
White and his family are from North Carolina. They were planning on driving to Buffalo for the game, but still made the trip after the location change. Full of adrenaline from the jump, White said the energy at the tailgate was "electric."
The jump did hurt his shoulders a bit, he said, but the table broke the fall and he was already numb from the cold.
Laura, Emma and Jeff Wannemacher made the drive from Buffalo, after a mere two hours of shoveling their driveway.
"We were trying to go to the home game, but the weather pushed us out," Jeff Wannemacher said. "But with the discount tickets and being able to drive here, it really made it kind of an easy choice for us...but when you open the door in the morning and can't step out and you're trying to leave for a trip, it's not much fun."
Fans of Buffalo, a group that helps organize travel to games, booked the Firebird Tavern within two hours of the location change.
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Will Bradley, a co-founder of the group who currently lives in Delaware, said a lot of the group is coming back to Detroit later this week for the Thanksgiving Day game against the Lions. He's going back to Delaware, then driving to Buffalo and taking a bus back to Detroit with the group on Wednesday.
This is normal for them, he said, and some fans travel to every away game of every season.
"Bills Mafia is more of a wild name, but it's we're mostly a good party and a good time," he said.
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2022-11-20T22:04:46Z
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Buffalo Bills fans tailgate before taking on Cleveland at Ford Field
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The Western Michigan men’s soccer team is headed to the NCAA tournament Round of 16 for the first time in program history after upsetting No. 9-seed Lipscomb, 1-0, in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon.
The Broncos, who won the final MAC title last weekend, continued their defensive dominance with their 12th shutout of the season as Hunter Morse stopped all seven of the Bison’s shots on net (with seven additional shots missing the goal). WMU (16-2-2) had just four shots on net and 10 shots overall, but they only needed one: English defender Daniel Nimick scored his eighth goal of the season (second on the roster) in the 71st minute (assisted by Eric Conerty).
NCAA OPENER:Western Michigan men's soccer advances to NCAA tournament 2nd round for second time ever
The Broncos advance to the Round of 16, where they’ll face the winner of Sunday’s late game between Portland and 8-seed Oregon State. WMU’s victory Sunday was just the third in program history; the second came Thursday night against Louisville and the Broncos also won in the first round in 2017 before losing to Michigan State in the second round. WMU’s first NCAA tournament appearance, in 2003, ended with a first-round loss to Milwaukee.
Morse came up huge in net, especially in the final minute, as the Bison sent a corner kick (one of seven in the match, to just two for the Broncos) in toward the net. But Morse was able to haul in the kick to end Lipscomb’s final scoring chance.
The winner of next weekend’s game (time TBA) between the Broncos and either the Beavers or Pilots will face either Pitt (which defeated fellow MAC squad Akron, 3-0, on Sunday), South Florida or 1-seed Kentucky for a spot in the College Cup, slated for Dec. 9-12 in Cary, North Carolina.
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2022-11-20T23:48:55Z
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WMU men's soccer in NCAA tournament 3rd round for 1st time
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Anthony Patterson got lucky — twice.
His first stroke of good fortune came in 2011, when a fall led him to the emergency room of a local hospital. While he was there, doctors noticed his heart wasn’t beating as it should. A pacemaker was implanted, potentially saving his life.
A few years later, when Patterson needed surgery to replace the battery in his pacemaker, a CT scan revealed another problem: a suspicious-looking, quarter-size nodule in his lungs.
“They sent me to Karmanos” Cancer Institute in Detroit, said Patterson, 64, who lives in the New Center area of the city. “They said, ‘Let’s just have some tests done.' They tested it and it came back positive. Cancer.”
'I'm going under the knife for the C'
The disease was caught at stage 1, before it had spread and early enough to save his life. He had surgery to remove the nodule and didn’t need chemotherapy or radiation.
“I had no clue, no symptoms at all,” said Patterson, a retired security guard who smoked more than 30 years.
“Even the pacemaker didn't make me stop smoking. It did slow me down, but I didn't stop. I was smoking maybe two to four cigarettes a day just to kill the crave, or after dinner. It wasn't a consistent thing.
“But then, when they discovered the lung cancer, that was the last cigarette I had. That wasn’t hard because I made my mind up. I said, ‘You’ve got to put these down. I’m going under the knife for the C.”
Patterson is now more than two years cancer-free and has regular screenings to look for any evidence of recurrence.
“I finally feel like I'm a cancer survivor,” said Patterson, who has six kids and four grandsons. “I feel like that. I do, and I appreciate it. God is good.”
Lung cancer can be cured — if it's caught early
Dr. Lawrence MacDonald wishes for more lung cancer patients with happy endings like Patterson’s.
MacDonald is chief of pulmonary medicine at Huron Valley Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township, and the majority of patients he sees every day don't have prognoses that are as good.
Only about 22% of people diagnosed with lung cancer live beyond the five-year mark, according to the National Cancer Institute. And lung and bronchus cancers kill more people than any other type.
The disease is expected to cause 130,180 U.S. deaths in 2022 — more than double the number of deaths from colorectal cancer, which is second in U.S. cancer deaths.
In the early stages of lung cancer, when it’s most treatable, few people have any symptoms.
“That's why we have to screen for them,” MacDonald said. “Once you come in with symptoms — shortness of breath, cough, coughing up blood, pain in your bones or neurologic symptoms — that often represents cancer that has spread or has grown to the point that it's much more difficult to treat. The whole idea is to catch it before you have symptoms. Don’t wait till you're coughing.”
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Doctors aim to spot lung cancer at 'toaster fire' phase
People who smoke or have a history of smoking are at highest risk. Others at risk for developing lung cancer include people with significant asbestos exposure and other carcinogens like nickel, chromium and arsenic, as well as exposure to radon, a colorless, odorless gas that naturally occurs in the earth and can get trapped inside buildings. Those with a family history of lung cancer also are more likely to develop it.
Michigan ranks 13th nationally among states with the highest smoking rates, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That makes the state's population more vulnerable.
“The most important prognostic factor for whether or not someone will be a long-term survivor of a lung cancer is whether it can be surgically removed,” said Dr. David Sternberg, an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Karmanos Cancer Institute, who treated Patterson.
“When you catch a cancer that's stage 1, you're catching something that's early on. You're catching it at the toaster fire stage. When you tell someone, ‘I had a toaster fire in my kitchen,’ the implication is it was something that was concerning but something that was pretty easily dealt with. You take your toaster, you put the fire out and you toss it in the garbage. But on the other hand, a house fire is a totally different problem. We want to catch the lung cancer at the toaster fire stage, before it becomes the house fire.”
But in the U.S., less than 7% of people who are eligible for lung cancer screenings are getting tested, MacDonald said.
The remaining 93% aren’t likely to catch their cancers at toaster fire stage, but rather when the flames have spread to the curtains, the furniture, the walls — when they’re threatening to engulf the house in a full-blown inferno.
Low-dose CT scan can make life-or-death difference
If there were a simple, inexpensive, painless test that could slash the risk of dying from the No. 1 cancer killer in the world, why wouldn’t people line up for it?
That’s the question MacDonald asks every day. He founded the Detroit Cancer Screening Initiative, a consortium of physicians in the region working to spread the word that early detection saves lives.
The test is widely available, relatively inexpensive and for the people at highest risk for developing lung cancer — current and former cigarette smokers ages 50 and older — the screening is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance.
It’s a low-dose CT scan of the chest. And when at-risk people get the test every year, their chances of dying from lung cancer plummets.
"If someone somewhere in the world came up with a test, a pill, an injection, a surgery or radiation that decreased cancer mortality (this much), it would be all over the news. It would be in the paper. It would be on the radio and everybody would be signing up for it," MacDonald said. "Well, here it is. ... This cannot be ignored. It should be trumpeted on billboards and in the news and on the radio."
MacDonald and nearly a dozen other doctors from Karmanos Cancer Institute, the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, Ascension Michigan and others are coming together to improve rates of lung cancer screening by working to educate primary care physicians about the need to prescribe it for patients who qualify.
They’re going out into communities, making contact with church leaders and at local health centers to spread the word about screening. They’re hosting lectures and mailing out flyers as part of their lifesaving campaign.
On Thursday, MacDonald quite literally shone a light on lung cancer, holding a flashlight with dozens of medical providers, patients and their loved ones at the DMC’s Charach Cancer Treatment Center in Commerce Township at an event to raise awareness.
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Other doctors who joined the initiative are doing outreach in other ways.
“A lot involves communication," said Dr. John Barnwell, chief of surgery at DMC Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit. "If I'm in a barbershop, and I started talking about cancer, I can convince them in the barbershop to get it done. You just have to reach out to these individuals.”
Dr. Michael Simoff, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Henry Ford Health, said he is trying to secure funding to pay for a van with a CT scanner inside so his team can bring screening to the places where people live, to areas where smoking rates are high and access to medical care is low.
“The idea would be to take it to people in the urban areas and the rural areas,” Simoff said. “We know that Native Americans have a tremendously high rate of smoking, too, and I’d like to take that at least yearly to see what we can do to help with those populations.”
Who qualifies for lung cancer screening?
The guidelines for who qualifies for lung cancer screening were developed in 2013 by the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force and were updated in 2021 to increase the number of people who are eligible. Now, screening is recommended for anyone ages 50 to 80 years old who:
Currently smokes and has a 20-pack year history of smoking, which is the equivalent of a pack a day for 20 years or two packs a day for 10 years or
Quit smoking within the last 15 years but previously had a 20-pack year history of smoking.
Too many people aren't even aware they're eligible, MacDonald said.
A 2021 Prevent Cancer Foundation survey found that two-thirds of Americans weren't getting recommended cancer screenings and one-third weren't even aware of which cancer screenings they needed.
“It's difficult to get people to slow down and take the time to do what they need to do,” said Barnwell, who also serves on the DMC’s governing board. “But you have to spend the time with the patients and convince them that it's well worth it.”
While about 7% of Americans overall who are eligible for lung cancer screening get tested, rates are even lower for African Americans, who MacDonald said, “get screened even less. … They're less likely to get surgery. … They get lung cancer when they’re younger. They get it with smoking fewer cigarettes, too.”
For all those reasons, the mortality rate among Black Americans is higher as well.
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Screening particularly reduces Black mortality
“The disparities are very prevalent, and it's well known,” Barnwell said. “Everybody's trying to figure out how to level the health care field in terms of providing care and it's just, very difficult. ...
“There's so many people who still have so much distrust, and that was very evident with the COVID-19 pandemic. So many people wouldn't get the vaccine. … The African American population still has a hesitancy in terms of getting certain medical care. There's historical validation for some of the concerns and I can understand that.”
Black people in America have been exploited for centuries for medical experimentation, ranging from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to forced sterilizations.
But, MacDonald said, it’s especially important to reach the Black community with screening.
“As it turns out, interestingly, populations of Black patients probably have more benefit than other patients” with screening, he said. “For some reason, that particular population of people when you screen them, versus not screening them, they have a better mortality benefit than other populations.”
That benefit could be as high as a 26% improvement in the mortality rate, he said.
Poverty, guilt, shame play into lack of screening
Poverty plays a part, too, in low screening rates for lung cancer.
A low-dose CT scan for lung cancer screening costs about $260 without insurance at Huron Valley Sinai Hospital. That cost can be insurmountable for someone who’s uninsured and living in poverty.
“Poor or indigent people just don't have means, necessarily, to get to the doctor, to get access, and many of them are uninsured,” Barnwell said. “They are able to become insured, but it takes time. You have to know the process to do that.”
Dr. Hirva Mamdani, a thoracic medical oncologist who leads a multidisciplinary program at Karmanos, added that people living in poverty also may not have established primary care physicians.
“I can't tell you how many times I see lung cancer patients when they first go to an emergency room because they don't have a primary care physician and now they're short of breath and there is a huge lung tumor," she said. “I think we’ve got to come up with strategies to reach to those people who just simply don't access the health care that frequently.”
People who are still smoking cigarettes might also avoid lung cancer screening because they feel guilt or shame, and might not want to be told they should quit, Simoff said.
“Our goal is to educate, and to say that you should be stopping smoking … because of the risk,” he said. "It’s so important for people to understand we don't think you're bad because you smoke. We think that you have a habit. You've gotten an addiction to something and now how can we provide you resources to help you get away from that.”
Firefighters left out of recommendations
Social stigma and fear also are rolled into the hesitancy to get lung cancer screening for some people, said Mamdani, who also is the director of the lung cancer screening program at Karmanos.
“There is fear involved with any type of screening,” she said. “Like what if there is something there? It's an I-don't-want-to-find-out type of thing.”
But there is one universal motivator that seems to push people to seek screening, she said.
“People who have a family member diagnosed with some type of a cancer — it doesn't have to be lung cancer, but any kind of cancer — are more likely to be willing to get screened for different types of cancer if they meet the criteria.”
Mamdani worries, too, about the people who don’t meet the eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening, but who still are at high risk for developing the disease.
“For example, somebody who has 18-pack years of smoking history, but they also worked in an industry where there's high exposure to asbestos,” she said. “We know that asbestos and smoking multiply the risk for development of lung cancer as well as mesothelioma. So those patients should have access to lung cancer screening, but they don't because the current guidelines don't include those nuances,” she said.
Firefighters are often left out as well.
“Firefighters are at really high risk of developing lung cancer,” she said, because of on-the-job smoke inhalation. “We have seen it with first responders to 9/11. In fact, I had a patient who was a never smoker. He was … (at) the site of 9/11 in New York and 10 years later, he developed lung cancer and he actually recently passed.
“There has to be an increase in awareness and I think a movement to drive the government agencies and insurance companies to cover lung cancer screening scans for our firefighters.”
Repetition is key to successful screening
Lung cancer screening also can’t be a one-and-done kind of thing, Mamdani said.
“It has to be annual so if there is any abnormality that is detected on the previous scan, that can be followed up,” she said. “Sometimes, you don't see anything on the first one.
“Oftentimes, what happens is people get their first scan and then there is no follow-up. That could be because of personal factors. They don't want to be screened anymore. It provokes anxiety. Their insurance didn't cover the first one or they were kind of stuck with a bill, things like that. Or it could be another problem, which is that they get one scan but then nobody calls to schedule another scan or calls about a follow-up.”
She’s working to ensure that patients are enrolled in a structured program so nothing gets missed.
“A program is important because when we do CT (scan) of the chest, it's not only that we're looking at lungs. We also look at the heart, blood vessels and there can be some abnormalities in those areas like coronary artery disease, aortic aneurysm, those kinds of things,” Mamdani said.
“There can be COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) or emphysema in the lungs that needs further follow-up.”
Oakland County man quits smoking after cancer scare
It’s that kind of program that Timothy Day, 75, of Farmington Hills, hopes will add years to his life.
He remembers sneaking cigarettes from his mother’s pack as a kid, puffing on them from behind the bushes. It wasn’t until he enlisted in the Army at age 18 that he became a regular smoker.
“I continued smoking right up until about a year or two ago,” he said. “I had been trying to quit off and on.”
Nicoderm patches helped him quit, said Day, who worked for DTE in metal fabrication and welding for substations until he retired.
It was a health scare that really pushed him to give up cigarettes.
MacDonald recommended a lung cancer screening test.
“He says, ‘You’ve got a couple of nodules here and there and you've got COPD.’ And then my heart doctor said, ‘You better quit smoking or you're not gonna live. You are not going to live.’
“With those two combined, especially with Dr. MacDonald, I just said, ‘I'm done.’ ”
Those nodules weren’t cancerous, but Day plans to go back annually for rechecks. That's because there’s too much for him to live for: his daughter, his grandkids, his cat and his friends.
“I have a motorcycle,” he said. “I ride that in the summertime and I belong to a motorcycle group, too. We go on trips — dessert rides and dinner rides — and meet we meet once a month at a restaurant or something like that.
“In the wintertime, I just kind of relax a little bit and blow snow and all that Michigan stuff. I'm just trying to enjoy life and have fun while I can.”
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Updated lung cancer screening guidelines: Who is eligible
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The No. 3 Wolverines (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) are coming off a 19-17 win over Illinois. U-M will take on No. 2 Ohio State in the annual rivalry game on Saturday in Columbus.
Be the first to hear and see what Harbaugh says when he fields questions beginning at noon.
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2022-11-21T13:32:51Z
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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh news conference: Live updates
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Michigan gas prices dropped 23 cents from a week ago, an early holiday gift to folks planning to go long distances to visit relatives for Thanksgiving dinner.
The average price at the pump late Sunday for regular unleaded, according to AAA, was $3.81 per gallon. That's 31 cents less than a month ago. To fill up a 15-gallon tank, expect to pay about $57.
The national average was $3.67.
"Higher gas prices don’t seem to be enough to stop people from traveling to be with family and friends," said Adrienne Woodland, a AAA auto club spokeswoman. "We’ve found that when gas prices are high, travelers look to offset the added cost by spending less on a hotel, shopping or dining out."
Metro Detroit’s average was less, dropping 29 cents to just $3.65 per gallon.
The most expensive gas in the state: Jackson, $3.95 per gallon; Grand Rapids, $3.94, and Benton Harbor, $3.94.
The least expensive, in addition to metro Detroit: Ann Arbor, $3.80, and Lansing, $3.84.
More:Democrats to walk tightrope with narrow majorities in Lansing
More:Michigan expected to have best year for real Christmas trees in a decade
Still, according to AAA, the highest daily average price for Thanksgiving in Michigan was $3.61 per gallon in 2012.
Increasing supply and falling gasoline demand helped drive prices down. Demand decreased from 9.01 million barrels a day to 8.74 million, while at the same time domestic gasoline stocks rose by nearly 2.2 million barrels of crude oil to 207.9 million, according to the Energy Information Administration.
West Texas Intermediate decreased by $1.33 to $85.59.
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Jack White's Third Man Records has left Elon Musk’s Twitter, and a seven nation army couldn’t hold him back.
In an Instagram post Sunday, the famous White Stripes' lead singer and guitarist blasted Musk, the social media app's new owner, after he allowed Trump back onto the platform, calling it "an asshole move" and accusing him of lending a platform to "known liars."
White, a Detroit native, is one of a handful of celebrities to exit Twitter — including TV drama creator Shonda Rhimes, Grammy-winning R&B singer Toni Braxton, and comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg — and others considering it following Musk's $44 billion purchase.
In addition, reports say more than half of Twitter’s employees have been fired or have resigned.
The negative sentiment among some Twitter users has been so strong recently that the New York Times ran an article, "How to Prepare for Life After Twitter," which concluded that "there is no simple answer." But it added that the uproar presented "an opportunity for us to learn how to have healthier relationships with social platforms."
More:Elon Musk is making automakers uncomfortable on Twitter
White praised Musk for doing "a lot of amazing things with Tesla," which he said he "supported the hell out of," but said the billionaire had gone "too far" and is using his "power to promote horrible, violence-inducing liars, who are taking the country and the world backwards and endangering the democracy that made you rich and successful in the first place."
White also has a beef with people who spread misinformation, going back a couple of decades.
Musk, the social media company's new owner, announced Saturday evening that Trump's Twitter account would be reinstated. Minutes later, the former president's profile, @realDonaldTrump, was unbanned and his blue check mark restored.
Musk had long hinted that he would allow Trump back onto Twitter, and a day before lifting the ban, Musk created an informal poll on his personal Twitter account asking if he should "reinstate former President Trump." More than 15 million users weighed in.
"The people have spoken," Musk tweeted, adding, "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," which, translated to English from Latin, means "the voice of the people is the voice of God."
On Jan. 8, 2021, before Musk bought Twitter and just days following a deadly riot at the U.S. capitol that sought to overturn Trump's election defeat, Twitter announced a permanent suspension of Trump's account "after close review of recent Tweets."
Its reasoning: Trump's tweets had incited violence. Twitter said the platform "exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials "directly," but also is "built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account."
More:Donald Trump announces his 2024 presidential campaign as GOP debates future: recap
Artistically, White has used his music to highlight personal frustration with misinformation — gossip — and fighting it. One of his most famous songs, "Seven Nation Army," was released in 2003 and has become a soccer anthem. It is about a person who hears residents gossiping and in response, leaves town.
In the song, the character comes back.
But IRL — in real life — it's unclear what would convince White, and others, to return to Twitter.
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2022-11-21T16:31:07Z
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The Lions are four games back of the division lead, even after the Minnesota Vikings (8-2) were thrashed by the Dallas Cowboys, so the wild card is where any playoff hopes are aimed. Compared to the NFC South and West, the Lions are right in the thick of the race for the third wild-card slot, after the top nondivision-winners in the NFC East almost assuredly bag up the first two spots.
Campbell will probably be more inclined to talk about the Buffalo Bills, who the Lions play on a short week at 12:30 p.m. Thanksgiving. The Bills (7-3) are tied atop the AFC East with the Miami Dolphins and are led by hobbled MVP candidate Josh Allen (2,930 passing yards, 21 touchdowns and 10 interceptions along with 483 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns).
But if the Lions can take down the Bills, they have a shot at a lengthy run with a softer December schedule awaiting: a home game vs. the Vikings surrounded by matchups vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars, at the New York Jets and at the Carolina Panthers. These are the Lions, though, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Detroit Lions' Dan Campbell news conference: Live updates
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Following the retirement of Justice Bridget McCormack, Michigan Supreme Court justices have unanimously voted to name Justice Elizabeth Clement as the court's next Chief Justice for the remainder of its current term.
Clement, 45, was appointed to the court by former Gov. Rick Snyder in 2017 before winning a full, eight-year term in 2018. Clement was nominated by the Republican Party for the court's election process but has voted with Democratic-nominated justices in several notable decisions, including banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and placing proposals on voting rights and abortion access on the Nov. 2022 ballot.
More:Justice Bridget McCormack to head international arbitration group
The court's justices will have to vote again at the start of its next term in January on a chief justice.
Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Clement worked as legal counsel for Snyder and before that as legal counsel to the Michigan Senate, per the court.
Clement previously recused herself from an opinion related to Snyder's involvement in the Flint Water Crisis, when the court's remaining justices unanimously sided with former state officials in agreeing that a lower judge had erred in serving as a "one-man grand jury" to indict the officials, including Snyder.
McCormack announced in September she would retire from the court at the end of the current term. After 10 years on the bench, McCormack will join the American Arbitration Association - International Center for Dispute Resolution in February as its new president and CEO.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has yet to appoint a replacement for McCormack. A spokesperson for Whitmer's office did not provide an update on the timeline for naming a replacement.
One possible candidate could be State Rep. Kyra Harris Bolden, D-Southfield. Democrats nominated Bolden to run for one of the two seats on the ballot this November, but she was not one of the two highest-vote getters, as incumbent Justices Richard Bernstein and Brian Zahra were returned to the bench.
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2022-11-21T18:41:37Z
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Elizabeth Clement chosen as next Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice
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Packages of enoki mushrooms recalled after listeria found in Michigan sample
Check your refrigerator for packages of enoki mushrooms. A California company is recalling packages of enoki mushrooms sold nationwide from September to October because of a potential health risk.
Green Day Produce Inc. based in Vernon, California announced on Nov. 17 that it is recalling 7.05-ounce packages of enoki mushrooms after a sample tested positive for listeria monocytogenes contamination. The full recall announcement was posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on FDA.gov.
The contaminated products were discovered when a retail sample was collected and analyzed by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), revealing the presence of listeria monocytogenes in a 7.05 oz. package of Enoki mushrooms.
Listeria can cause serious illness, sometimes fatal, in young children, frail or elderly people, and those with a weakened immune system.
Healthy individuals may experience high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Infections in pregnant women can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
The product recalled was distributed nationwide to distributors and retail stores. It’s sold in a clear plastic package that has no lot code or date on it and has “Enoki Mushroom” on the front and Green Day Produce Inc. on the back. The product UPC is 16430-69080 on the back of the package.
No illnesses have been reported and distribution has been suspended. Customers are urged to return the enoki mushrooms to the place of purchase for a refund. For any questions contact Green Day Produce at 323-587-4688 or william@greendayinc.com.
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Frankenmuth is known for its year-round holiday festivities, but it will soon also be known for having the state's largest indoor water park.
140,000 square feet of fun
Frankenmuth's Bavarian Inn Lodge is one of the biggest Bavarian-themed resorts in the U.S. Its new $80-million expansion will add over 100,000 square feet to its indoor water park and family entertainment center.
In an announcement from the Bavarian Inn Lodge, President Michael Keller Zehnder said the new project will create "unique attractions and new types of experiences, within our resort, for all ages." With over 20 new attractions, the latest expansion will put the Bavarian Inn Lodge at more than 140,000 square feet of family fun once construction is done.
The Lodge's largest expansion yet
This will be the Bavarian Inn Lodge's seventh major expansion since it opened in 1986. Some of the amenities included in the $80-million expansion are:
A large indoor wave pool
An adult-only swim-up bar
A series of water slides
"We're excited to announce more on the unique attractions that we're adding as the construction process is underway," Zehnder said.
More: Michigan expected to have best year for real Christmas trees in a decade
More: Bills Mafia sets up camp in Detroit for wild tailgate partying
Previously, the largest expansion the lodge saw was $14-million during its third phase in 1995 — when 156 guest rooms, a gift shop, third indoor pool, second restaurant and an 18-hole indoor mini-golf course were added.
All expansion phases of the lodge have been built by R.C. Hendrick & Son, Inc.
When will the new amenities be available to the public?
The construction process will kick off with a groundbreaking ceremony on Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. Various Zehnder family members and representatives from the municipality will address attendees during the ceremony, Zehnder said.
Certain new areas of the family fun center will be open late fall 2023, but guests will be able to fully enjoy the new attractions by spring 2024.
Operating with no disruptions
"The addition will not inhibit any of our guests from enjoying our four pools, three whirlpools and two water slides — or the 30,000 square feet of family fun center space with our indoor miniature golf, lots of video games and redemption games and arcade games," Zehnder said. "All of the areas of the existing fun center, and throughout the lodge, will be open for business as normal."
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Michigan's largest indoor water park is coming to Frankenmuth
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A restaurant with a focus on modern American fare with European flair, including its lavish and elegant interior, is downtown Birmingham's newest spot.
Zana is at 210 Old Woodward in the former space occupied by The Bird & The Bread restaurant. According to its website, Zana translates to "fairy of the mountains and is derived from Albanian folklore."
From the Tallulah Group, Zana also calls out to "come for the ambiance and stay for the food."
“Guests should expect a dining experience that will transcend taste … through alluring ambiance, bold flavors, and unparalleled service,” said Johnny Prenci, Zana general manager and partner who will oversee day-to-day operations.
Its ingredients are sourced with sustainability in mind, according to its website. Zana's menu includes a selection of shared plates, salads, entrees, sides, and desserts.
Expect signature dishes of steak tartare, featuring 12-hour roasted tomatoes and served under smoke, whole black bass with olive, citrus, and herbs, lamb chops, cocoa spice, and more.
Behind Zana's menu is chef Jason Bamford who hails from Haslett (near Lansing) and is a graduate of New York's prestigious Culinary Institute of America. He comes to Zana, according to a news release, from the Waldorf Astoria, where he cooked for global delegations, royals, heads of state, and celebrities. He was also the executive chef at the Delano Hotel in Miami.
“I’ve been fortunate to have worked all over the country but was waiting for the right opportunity to return home to Michigan,” said Bamford in a statement. “It’s an honor to now be part of the Zana family.”
Zana's cocktail program is led by mixologist Anthony Escalante, that will also feature local flavors and spirits.
More:New Center establishment named one of Esquire's best new restaurants
The 10,000-square-foot space has been completely renovated, according to a news release. Inside there's a bar area, exclusive dining sections, and elegant banquette seating. Other ornate details include mosaic tile, custom glass work, and hand-blown glass light fixtures from the Czech Republic. Zana's bar, where you can grab a craft cocktail and more, is trimmed in gold and lit from top to bottom. There are also banquet and private dining areas for up to 135 people.
This is the third concept for the Tallulah Group, led by Mario Camaj, who also operates Tallulah Wine Bar & Bistro in Birmingham and Besa in Detroit.
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Zana opens in downtown Birmingham promising alluring ambiance
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The Boblo boats are embarking on a new trip. Destination: your home.
“Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale,” the award-winning documentary exploring the history of Boblo Island amusement park and its ferries, is now available to stream on demand and to own on DVD.
The film, which had its world premiere at Freep Film Festival in 2021, this year played theatrically in more than 20 cities across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Now viewers everywhere can watch the film from home through the film’s Eventive virtual cinema release.
The release includes the original film and a new Q&A with Detroit’s City Historian Jamon Jordan, narrator Martha Reeves, director Aaron Schillinger and other contributors to the film. There are also 13 additional extras available on the DVD and the virtual release.
“There were so many fantastic scenes from our six years of production that ended up on the cutting room floor,” said Schillinger. “I had a blast digging through my old editing sequences to find the gems that just needed a little bit of polish before being ready to share.”
Highlights from the bonus content includes the true story of how the mafia nearly acquired Boblo Island, a rendition of the original 1923 Bob-Lo Song, and an animated sequence depicting the father of the Boblo Boats, naval architect Frank Kirby.
Freep Film Festival, the documentary-focused festival produced by the Detroit Free Press, is partnering with the film on the virtual launch.
It’s $12 to stream the film and the Q&A. It’s $20 for a streaming package that includes all the bonus content, plus the film and Q&A. DVDs are $25.
Here is a link to the Special Features screening, which includes the film, Q&A and bonus content.
Here is a link to the Regular Feature screening, which includes the film and Q&A.
The DVD of the film is available for purchase at the film’s website, www.bobloboatsfilm.com.
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2022-11-21T21:48:50Z
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'Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale' documentary streaming, on DVD
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