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Kids playing at a FitKids360 event

How collaboration builds networks of support for Michigan children

Michigan's child-focused nonprofits are recognizing the value of collaboration to better support the kids they serve. With child and family health in mind, organizations are getting creative, with positive results.

Michele Mueller is senior project manager for CAV at MDOT
Understanding our connected and autonomous present

Connected and autonomous vehicles are high-frequency Industry buzzwords. But what do they mean? We dig in and share the key differences and similarities between these rapidly evolving transportation technologies.

If you don’t evolve, you die: How Jacob Bishop re-energized the Mr. Alan’s brand

Jacob Bishop transformed Metro Detroit's longtime bargain menswear chain into a place for finding the latest trends in shoes and clothing. Here's how he did it.  

Bank of Ann Arbor expands to Oakland County with merger

The banks will continue on under the Bank of Ann Arbor brand.

Automation Alley makes investments, adds firms to 7Cs program

The portfolio includes companies that help hospitals collaborate pre-surgery, provide analytics for gyms, offer R&D tools and more.

Landscapes of luxury: A guide to metro Detroit’s public gardens

Metro Detroit is home to some spectacular formal gardens and greenspaces—all open to the public. Metromode writer and garden expert Brian Allnutt gives us the cook's tour.

Steve Neavling, investigative reporter and founder of the Motor City Muckraker
These Detroit-area journalists are breaking big stories…without the backing of major news outlets

These guys aren't playing by the rules of traditional journalism. They're re-writing them.

Placemaking projects on Huron and Clinton rivers yield positive changes

"With placemaking, rivers can become the central focus of our towns."

Making tempeh at the Brinery
Could one of these metro Detroit food startups be the next Garden Fresh?

Ferndale salsa maker Garden Fresh recently sold to Campbell's Soup Co. for $231 million. Could one of these three businesses be the next big story out of Metro Detroit's food economy?

Mike Hammoud in front of his bigfoot house in Dearborn Heights
Bigfoot houses: The new trend in metro Detroit’s compact communities

"We fell more in love with the lot than the house."

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