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Destination Detroit: The Comeback City

  Detroit’s Greektown has a little bit of something for everyone.  As the sun sets, it comes alive with people and plenty of establishments with live music to visit.  There are also street performers, plenty of casinos in the area and many places to lounge or eat.
Photo by Vito Palmisano

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Letters: Lansing School District Has Some Changes

 

Late Start Wednesdays
 
For the Lansing School District’s 2015-16 school year students will have full days of school on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays with Wednesday’s start time being delayed by 2 hours. Read the  many reasons why they decided to go this route.

 
Photo:Yvonne Caamal Canul 
Superintendent 

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Davenport University Rolls Out New Programs for Working Students

 

Right:  Kriss Kinney started Davenport in the Fall of 2014.  She is striving to obtain her Masters in Social Work.  

Photo by Tyrell Potts

 

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HoneyChild: Product Review: JBOC

 

What is moisture and what produces moisture in hair? Many curlies believe that the more oil the more moisture!  And this my curlies couldn’t be further from the truth. 

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Tiny Houses: Why They Are Awesome

Jesse Kahtava and Erin Heeney on the back deck with their fur babies- Cedar, Willow and Cricket. Yes- they all live together in perfect harmony.

 
Photo courtesy of www.northernhoot.com

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Single Fathers Are Changing the Definition of Family

 Malvin Brewer and his son, 8-year-old, Zavier Brewer enjoying a cool beverage from Speedway after a trip to the park.

 
Courtesy photo

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Robert C. Koehler: Zero tolerance

 

By Robert C. Koehler
Tribune Content Agency
 
  “As I walked down the hall, one of the police officers employed in the school noticed I did not have my identification badge with me.”
 
  The speaker is testifying before the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. He was a high school freshman at the time. Ah, school days!

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In Cuba, ‘Creeping Capitalism’ Arrives

  

By Louis Nevaer

New America Media
 
HAVANA—When the U.S. embassy reponed in Havana on Monday after more than 54 years, it signaled what Cubans have now accepted: creeping capitalism is the future.

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OPINION: Workplace Bullying: The New Face of Discrimination

  By Elsie Duell 

 
Workplace bullying has become more and more of an issue in organizations, companies, and even government especially in our current climate of economic despair where jobs are few, and unemployment is high

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