Kombucha maker tinkers with recipe for a healthy soda from storefront in downtown Farmington
The soda aims to give people who may not love Kombucha more choices for a healthy beverage.
One Detroit
This solutions journalism-based series on Metro Detroit's regional issues is conducted in partnership with Metro Matters and guided by our Emerging Leaders Board. The work is funded by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Bridging Detroit’s massive digital divide
These people and organizations are helping Detroiters access the internet, and to learn how to use it.
Metro Detroit’s independent local news outlets making the best of a bad time in journalism
For the area's unconventional news outlets, 2016 was actually a good year—for some, their best yet.
Voices: California dreaming…of Detroit
I moved my business home to Detroit and I’m ecstatic to be here. Here’s why.
Can the private sector solve Metro Detroit’s infrastructure woes?
Michigan will need at least $4 billion to fill in the gaps in our infrastructure. Turning to the private sector may be one solution, but it's not without complication.
Can free public Montessori survive in Detroit?
Can Montessori schools provide a solution to Detroit schools' elementary education challenges? Chalkbeat Detroit's Erin Einhorn tells us as part of our solutions journalism series.
In the age of Trump, reporting on marginalized communities more important than ever
Martina Guzman on her role as a racial justice journalism fellow in Detroit.
How Metro Detroit’s car-oriented suburbs are implementing a ‘new American dream’
Is the auto-dominated, cul-de-sac, sprawl suburb permanently losing its hold on the American imagination? Sterling Heights, Troy and Southfield are planning on it.
3 local, practical solutions to the national epidemic of income inequality
Metro Detroit has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the nation, which is a huge problem for the region's future prosperity. But there are positive, incremental steps Metro Detroiters are taking in their communities that can make a real difference.
Can Metro Detroit’s municipalities cooperate?
In the wake of a narrow defeat for regional transit, Metro Matters' Ellen Vial explores how we might learn from regional cooperation in Pittsburgh and the Twin Cities.
