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At Day 50, supply and shots are picking up thanks to White House efforts — and adjustments set in motion by the Trump administration.

Economists back study that found Detroit still inflating property taxes Detroit — A coalition fighting for fairness in property tax assessments joined with economists, legal and finance scholars Thursday to call for state and city leaders to investigate the ongoing "inaccuracy" and "inequity" in property tax assessments in Detroit.  The Coalition for Property Tax Justice contends multiple studies have found the lowest-valued homes in Detroit continue to be overassessed — even after a c...

With hopes for the end of the coronavirus pandemic beginning to rise, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has one clear priority in the citys reopening: the criminal justice system. Despite a 30% decrease in annual city homicides from 2012 to 2019, Detroit followed a national trend with a 20% increase in homicides in 2020, from 275 in 2019 to 327 last year. This is largely due to the decrease of services in the citys criminal justice system because of COVID-19, Duggan said during his annual State of th...

Activists blast planned Black Bottom Saints gift to Duggan An authors offer to recognize Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan as an honorary "Black Bottom Saint" has sparked backlash from residents who say he doesnt deserve it. “We will continue to demand that Alice Randall withdraws her offer,” Detroit City Charter Commissioner Nicole Small said Monday at a gathering with about 50 others near University Prep Science and Math Elementary School. “Now she’s trying to say that oh, it’s going to be...

Share March 06, 2021, 7:29 AM Generally speaking, the citys response to Covid-19 has been seen as a public-health model. Detroits drive-through testing, and now its vaccination operations, have been widely praised as an efficient use of public resources to stem the disease.  The backlash probably stung worse than the needle. (Photo: Detroit Health Department) On Friday, Duggans team was spinning their explanation of why they turned away, earlier in the week, 6,200 doses of t...

A new report about the link between face masks and COVID-19 cases and deaths "serves as a warning" about the dangers of lifting mask mandates prematurely, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Friday.  The news comes as California announced more relaxed rules: State officials are allowing people in limited groups to attend Major League Baseball games and go to Disneyland, beginning the first week of April. A recent CDC report found that mask m...

Elevators that respond to voice commands, cameras that notify store managers when to restock shelves and video streams that keep tabs on everything from cash register lines to parking space availability. These are a few of the millions of scenarios becoming possible thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and computing on the edge. Standalone edge devices can take advantage of AI tools for things like translating text or recognizing images without having to constantly access cloud co...

The rollout of the Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) COVID-19 vaccine hit a pair of potholes this week as the mayor of Detroit said the city was sticking ...

White House and Detroit officials tried to limit fallout after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan initially declined to accept an allocation of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. The move is at odds with federal health officials' recommendations and the Biden administration messaging that Americans should take whichever vaccine they first have access to.

'Johnson & Johnson is a very good vaccine, Moderna and Pfizer are the best,' Mike Duggan said earlier.