Lawrence Price and Sydney Neal
Special to the Detroit Free Press
Tonya Mosley was 13 when she boarded a bus in northwest Detroit and took it downtown to the Detroit Free Press to meet editor Bob McGruder in 1993. McGruder, who had been named editor of the paper earlier that year, had arranged for Mosley to spend a day shadowing a journalist.
It was her first time taking the bus that far.
“I was like an hour late, and when I got there, this journalist had actually called in sick,” said Mosley, who is the co-host of the NPR and WBUR radio show, Here & Now.
Lee DeVito Detroit s Ford Field is now a large-scale FEMA-operated COVID-19 vaccination site through mid-May. My experience getting vaccinated here was easy. The trucks that rolled out of the Pfizer facility near Kalamazoo in December carrying the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines offered one of the first tangible symbols that this pandemic could eventually end, and like many people eager to survive it, I wanted to register to get one as soon as possible. I knew that frontline workers, the elderly, and the immunocompromised would be prioritized, and as a man in my 30s with no health conditions, I was prepared to wait a while. So I waited. Vaccination clinics started to become available through local health departments, as well as retail pharmacies like Meijer, CVS, and Rite Aid. Finally, as eligibility and availability expanded in early Marc
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Amid a spike in infections and hospitalizations, the city is partnering with the school district and the Islamic Center of Detroit to distribute the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Detroit will administer the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine at several neighborhood locations next week. Eight sites including Henry Ford High School, Brenda Scott Academy, Randolph Career and Technical Education School, Western High School, Breithaupt Career Center, East English Village Preparatory Academy and Cass Tech High School will be open for one day of inoculations.
“We are creating more access for Detroiters across the city, bringing eight new locations online next week in partnership with DPSCD and the Islamic Center of Detroit,” says Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair, as the city is adding the sites through community partnerships to stop the spread.
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College senior Bao Ha has applied to more than 100 jobs. So far, he s had no luck.
The job market is starting to roar back, but for anxious college seniors like Bao Ha, it s a different reality altogether. I ve probably applied to like 130 or 40 jobs or something, Ha says. I have not gotten even an email back, or an interview.
Ha is graduating soon from Macalaster College in Minnesota, and between his anthropology thesis and trying to check items off his senior year bucket list, he s spent hours crafting cover letters and scouring job postings.
And now, self-doubt has started to trickle in.