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Detroit City Council OKs 2021-22 budget, raises for city workers Detroit — The City Council approved a $1.1 billion budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year that includes raises for city workers and funding to bolster skilled trades training for city residents. The council voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of the general fund spending plan, with Council Member Raquel Castaneda-Lopez casting the lone no vote, noting her disagreement with the prioritization of investing in the Detroit Police Department over "critical social services." The budget approval comes as the city works to recover from a mas...

Here is a movie for people who haunt the aisles of the video stores searching for 1950s romances. I could have seen it at the Princess Theater in Urbana in 1959. Maybe I did. It's retro in every respect, a romantic comedy in a world so innocent that a lifetime is settled with a kiss. And because it embraces its innocence like a lucky charm, it works, for those willing to allow it. Others will respond with a horse laugh, and although I cannot quarrel with them I do not share their sentiments. Maybe it's something to do with Kate Bosworth's smile. She plays Rosalee Futch, a check-out clerk at t...

Detroit — Mayoral candidate Anthony Adams on Friday touted a crime reduction strategy that would bolster community intervention to stem violence and hopelessness. Adams provided an overview of his crime plan before an audience of about a dozen residents and supporters in the parking lot of a gas station on the city's east side. "We're dealing with issues of hopelessness in our community," Adams said. "Until we begin to understand that we cannot deal with crime without addressing underlying issues of poverty, we will continuously be in a cycle of high crime rates, high poverty and high h...

Miami artist Jayme Gershen is having her moment. After five years of hard work, she completed her first feature documentary, Birthright, just in time for its premiere as the closing film at Miami Dade College’s 38th-annual Miami Film Festival (MFF) next month. The film follows local electro-pop act Afrobeta as the duo embarks on a journey to perform in Cuba, the homeland of members Cuci Amador's and Tony Smurphio's parents. Gershen met the pair while hosting a concert series. When the musicians mentioned their plans to play in Cuba, Gershen asked to film the process. The result is a thoug...

Image credit: Laura Herberg/WDET The police surveillance system is Highland Park and Ecorse’s version of Detroit’s Project Green Light. After more than a year in the making, Highland Park’s Project Blue Light officially launched on January 15, 2021.  As part of the program, businesses can pay for special camera equipment that will feed surveillance footage directly into the city’s police department. Companies mark their participation in the project by displaying a flashing blue colored light on their building exterior. According to Charles W. Lackey, III, the Director of Info...