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6 days ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
The deer population has increased significantly in southeast Michigan, and as a result, so has the number of deer-related car crashes. The high population has other negative impacts as well, such as crop damage and forest regeneration issues, leading some local communities to seek options for culling deer populations.
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1 week ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
An independent study by the International Association of Assessing Officers has found that claims of systemic overassessments in Detroit are false, the city reported on Wednesday. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
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1 week ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Detroit’s General Service Department is looking to increase the tree canopy across the city to improve citizens’ quality of life. The department is accepting requests from residents for tree plantings in their neighborhoods. The free program is open to residents and small businesses to plant a tree on the berm in front of their property. Savion Stephens, tree planting program manager for the city of Detroit, says trees can help improve residents’ quality of life.
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2 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Michigan-based helicopter tour company, MyFlight, for its new headquarters in Detroit on Wednesday. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The 12,000-square-foot building will be at the Coleman A Young Municipal Airport. It’s the first new commercial development at the site in 60 years. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says this expansion is the beginning of more development projects for the airport.
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2 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Over 3,000 faculty, staff and students at the University of Michigan held an emergency meeting after the university announced it would close its Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. The closure is a response to the Trump administrations efforts to end DEI programming at colleges across the country. The announcement, which reportedly resulted in at least 10 staff terminations, came as a shock to many across campus.
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2 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
The nonprofit Greening of Detroit says the severe flooding caused by a recent water main break in Southwest Detroit may have affected the trees there, but they won’t know until May or June. The Greening of Detroit plants city-tolerant trees that can sustain conditions like heavy pollution and flooding from clogged storm drains — or in this case — a water main break. The nonprofit planted nearly 250 trees in Southwest Detroit in 2021.
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3 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Michigan lawmakers are debating the best way to increase funding to maintain the state’s roads, but a new report from the Citizens Research Council argues that there are ways to make better use of the money the state already has available. Eric Paul Dennis, a research associate of infrastructure policy at the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, says the biggest road block the state faces in distributing funds effectively for roads is Public Act 51.
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3 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley |Nargis Rahman
Detroit attorney Todd Perkins announced his bid for mayor this week, making him the eighth candidate to enter the race to succeed Mike Duggan. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The North End resident vowed to cut the city’s property and income taxes. Perkins says lower taxes will send a positive message about Detroit’s future.
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3 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Today on the Detroit Evening Report, we cover the ramifications of last night’s storms, new city-wide projects and upcoming community events. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Power outages across the stateDTE Energy says about 22,000 customers had no power this morning after severe thunderstorms Sunday night caused widespread damage in the lower peninsula.
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4 weeks ago | 
wdet.org | Bre'Anna Tinsley
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Thursday that over 90 percent of the families displaced by the water main break and subsequent flooding in Southwest Detroit have returned to their homes. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The city has replaced 125 furnaces and 126 hot water heaters in affected homes, with just a few left that need replacing. Resident Deanna Dooley has lived on Rowan Street for 20 years.
