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History The Great Lakes Water Authority was created in the fall of 2014 under a United States bankruptcy court order issued as part of the City of Detroit bankruptcy proceedings. [1] The Detroit City Council voted to join the authority in September 2014 by a 7–2 vote, and the county commissions of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties voted to join in October 2014. [2] The first meeting of the ...
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is a sprawling network covering 1,079 square-miles, [1][3] servicing more than 40 percent of the U.S. state of Michigan 's population, [1] and employing nearly 2,000 people. [4] The DWSD is one of the most extensive and largest water and sewage systems in the United States. [1] Along with serving the entire city of Detroit, it also serves the counties ...
The joy in the courtyard was electrifying. The nonprofit's reach spans two decades, hundreds of youth across several generations, and three city neighborhoods. And with the opening of a new $4.3 ...
Hurlbut Memorial Gate is a monumental structure, 132 ft (40 m) long, 50 ft (15 m) high, and 40 ft (12 m) in depth, at the entry way to Water Works Park located at East Jefferson Avenue and Cadillac Boulevard in a historic area of Detroit, Michigan. It is named after Chauncey (sometimes "Chauncy") Hurlbut, a 19th-century Detroit grocer ...
Veronika Scott is an American social entrepreneur and CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit -based humanitarian organization.
The Empowerment Plan is an American humanitarian organization, located in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit, Michigan. The organization works to address homelessness by providing jobs to homeless women, and by manufacturing a coat that is given to homeless individuals in need.
Rep. Dingell warns Dems about their problems with unions, seniors in Michigan: ‘We have work to do' Gabriel Hays August 20, 2024 at 8:17 AM
The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-1981 is a 1993 nonfiction book by Jeffrey Mirel, published by the University of Michigan Press. It discusses the rise and decline of Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in the 20th century, with the book's discussion focusing on the 1920s, the zenith of DPS, through the 1980s.