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Steve Neavling is an award-winning investigative journalist who operated Motor City Muckraker, an online news site devoted to exposing abuses of power and holding public officials accountable. Neavling also hosted Muckraker Report on 910AM from September 2017 to July 2018. Before launching Motor City Muckraker,...

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Metro Detroit

Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign

At first, the sign was mocked for falling short of expectations, especially considering its hefty price tag

By Steve Neavling
Apr 16, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Views & Opinions, Detroit, NFL Draft, Mayor Duggan, sign, I-94, social media, Instagram, Slideshow
Politics & Elections

Anti-Trump campaign targets Michigan with voices of disaffected Republicans

Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $50 million ad campaign featuring homemade testimonial videos from remorseful voters

By Steve Neavling
Apr 15, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Donald Trump, election, politics, Republicans, Political Action Committee, Republican Voters Against Trump, Joe Biden
Metro Detroit

Wayne County public defender sues judges for alleged bias against lower-income defendants

“I know I’m doing the right thing,” Sundus Jaber says after filing whistleblower lawsuit against 35th District Court

By Steve Neavling
Apr 12, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Sundus Jaber, 35th District Court, public defender, Regional Managed Assigned Counsel Office, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, Wayne County, Plymouth
Metro Detroit

Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study

Activists and the Detroit City Council say the city is cheating lower-income residents by illegally and disproportionately overtaxing homes

By Steve Neavling
Apr 11, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, property tax foreclosures, homes, evictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Treasurer Sabree, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Detroit City Council
Politics & Elections

Right-wing fraudsters fined $1.25M for racist robocall scheme in Michigan, other states

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged with multiple felonies for spreading misinformation to Black voters in the Detroit area

By Steve Neavling
Apr 10, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Crime, Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman, New York, Michigan, Detroit, Black voters, election, politics, Letitia James, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Metro Detroit

Crumbleys sentenced to 10-15 years in prison for role they played in son’s mass shooting

‘I will be in my own internal prison for the rest of my life,’ Jennifer Crumbley told the judge

By Steve Neavling
Apr 9, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Jennifer Crumbley, James Crumbley, Ethan Crumbley, mass shooting, guns, sentencing, Karen McDonald, Oakland County Prosecutor, Oxford High School
Metro Detroit

Police return Highland Park man’s beloved Thunderbird after he accused the city of stealing it

Bob Nelson is grateful but bitter, and suspects his car would still be in the tow yard if he didn’t speak up

By Steve Neavling
Apr 5, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Car Culture, Government, Bob Nelson, car, tow truck, Highland Park, Ford Thunderbird, class car, Highland Park Police, Troy's Towing
Metro Detroit

Grosse Pointe group sued again for defiant construction of $45M performing arts center

The lawsuit alleges the Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation is putting residents at risk of flooding

By Steve Neavling
Apr 4, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, lawsuit, Wayne County, Fox Creek, drain pipe, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Fox Creek Drainage District, drain easement
Cannabis News

Michigan cannabis connoisseurs wanted to help judge best locally grown products

The ‘Best in Grass’ contest aims to identify the crème de la crème of locally grown marijuana

By Steve Neavling
Apr 3, 2024

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Best in Grass, marijuana, contest, sativa, indica, hybrid, judges, best marijuana
Metro Detroit

Highland Park man inherited his mom’s beloved Thunderbird — then police ‘stole’ it

‘I went into a psychotic rage,’ Bob Nelson says

By Steve Neavling
Apr 2, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Bob Nelson, car, tow truck, Highland Park, Ford Thunderbird, class car, Highland Park Police, Troy's Towing
Metro Detroit

Disability justice groups demand more resources in Detroit’s budget

More than 128,000 Detroiters – or one out of five residents – have at least one disability

By Steve Neavling
Apr 1, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Disability Rights, Paratransit, Detroit Department of Transportation, Detroit, people with disabilities, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, budget, wheelchairs
Metro Detroit

Detroit City Council takes action after study suggests lowest valued homes were overtaxed

Activists are worried about another wave of foreclosures based on inflated property taxes for some homes

By Steve Neavling
Mar 28, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, property taxes, Coalition for Property Tax Justice
Metro Detroit

Lawsuit seeks to save trees, protect residents at contaminated AB Ford Park in Detroit

The city kept the park open nearly two years after excessive contaminants were discovered

By Steve Neavling
Mar 27, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Environment, Pollution, AB Ford Park, Jefferson Chalmers, Detroit, east side, contamination, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Michigan Environmental Protection Act
Metro Detroit

Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests

By contrast, the most expensive homes were the least likely to be overtaxed, according to the University of Chicago

By Steve Neavling
Mar 25, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Bernadette Atuahene, Detroit, property taxes, overassessments, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Coalition for Property Tax Justice
Metro Detroit

Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway hospitalized

First responders were called to the popular judge’s Grosse Pointe Park home on Wednesday afternoon

By Steve Neavling
Mar 22, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Wayne County, court, Wayne County Circuit Court, Dana Hathaway, court
Metro Detroit

Highland Park gets new treasurer after former one was ousted

Lisa Stolarski was appointed after Janice Taylor-Dibbs resigned amid a housing scandal

By Steve Neavling
Mar 21, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Highland Park, treasurer, Lisa Stolarski, Highland Park City Council
Metro Detroit

Watchdog group demands termination of Oakland University researcher for mishandling dangerous toxin

The botched project caused the deaths of mice and exposed staff to a genotoxin, which can damage DNA

By Steve Neavling
Mar 20, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Education, Oakland University, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, animal research, education, Oakland County, Michael Budkie, genotoxin, research
Cannabis News

EMU takes on green wave with classes on cannabis

The classes range from the chemistry of cannabis to the regulation of marijuana

By Steve Neavling
Mar 19, 2024

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Education, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan cannabis industry, Michigan higher education
Metro Detroit

Two Detroit cops used excessive force when they killed a Black man in 2018, jury finds

The fatal shooting prompted the police union to award the cops as “District Officers of the Year”

By Steve Neavling
Mar 18, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Lamont Johnson, Tyler Nagy, Raul Martinez, lawsuit, police brutality, lawsuit, shooting, Detroit, Detroit Police Department, excessive force
Metro Detroit

State agency probes Warren Police Department’s alleged offer to hide misconduct investigation

Ex-Commissioner William Dwyer accused again of concealing claims of officer wrongdoing

By Steve Neavling
Mar 15, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Government, Warren Police Department, William Dwyer, wandering cops in Michigan, Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, MCOLES, Michigan, Warren, police misconduct