Christine Ferretti

Detroit

Editor, @BridgeDet313. Past: Assistant City Editor and Detroit City Hall reporter @detroitnews, @madonnaU grad. Email me: [email protected]

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Articles

Eco-anxiety in preschoolers? These early childhood teachers want to help.

1 week ago | chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier |Christine Ferretti |Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Stavros, a 4-year-old at Denver’s Palmer Elementary School, stood on a low blue chair scooping soil into a white pot he’d decorated with his school picture and stickers of a donut, a camera, and the word “lucky.” Next, he shook in a packet of seeds for wildflowers native to Colorado and swirled them around with his index finger.
Vitti talks marijuana dangers for kids and fighting poverty at Mackinac

1 week ago | chalkbeat.org | Christine Ferretti |Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. MACKINAC ISLAND – Beyond its struggles with chronic absenteeism and academics, another ongoing challenge for Detroit’s public school district is a “disruptive” proliferation of marijuana.
Mayoral candidates build support on Mackinac Island

1 week ago | bridgedetroit.com | Malachi Barrett |Christine Ferretti |Bryce Huffman |Stephen Henderson

BridgeDetroit is at the Mackinac Policy Conference this week to learn more about the future leadership of Detroit. Five of the nine mayoral candidates were invited to a debate at 5:30 p.m. Thursday evening. Watch the livestream here. The debate will feature former Police Chief James Craig, City Council Member Fred Durhal III, former nonprofit CEO and Council President Saunteel Jenkins, Triumph Church Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. and Council President Mary Sheffield.
Detroit Police Board Commissioners struggle for candidates in Aug. 5 primary

1 week ago | bridgedetroit.com | Andrea May Sahouri |Christine Ferretti

In 1974, Detroiters won the right to police the police. Fifty years later, few want the job. Three seats on the 11-member Board of Police Commissioners — the elected body tasked with oversight of the police — don’t have any candidates on the ballot for the August primary. And there’s no competition for three others, with only one candidate for each seat on the August ballot. The deadline to file to run was April 22.
The art 'Beneath Our Feet'

1 week ago | bridgedetroit.com | Micah Walker |Christine Ferretti

Hey Detroiters, welcome back to Culture Canvas! The Library Street Collective is gearing up for the opening of “Beneath Our Feet,” a new exhibit by Detroit artists LaKela Brown and Mario Moore centered on land stewardship, Black home ownership, food sovereignty, cultural heritage and legacy. The show, featuring a mix of painting and sculpture work, will be on display at the downtown Detroit gallery through July 30. An opening reception is at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
What are Detroit’s community advisory councils, and why don’t you have one?

1 week ago | bridgedetroit.com | Briana Rice |Sarah Hulett |Christine Ferretti

This article first appeared on Outlier Media and is republished here under a Creative Commons License. In church basements and rec centers — anywhere with free space to offer — Detroit’s community advisory councils (CACs) gather to hear concerns from their neighbors. If you’ve never heard of a community advisory council, chances are good you don’t have one. Only three of Detroit’s seven districts do. Voters in those districts will elect CAC representatives in November.
GUIDE: How Michigan’s new universal lead testing law affects your child

2 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Nina Ignaczak |Planet Detroit |Christine Ferretti

Planet Detroit originally published this story. Sign up for Planet Detroit’s weekly newsletter here. -Lead is a potent neurotoxin that can cause serious and lasting harm, especially in young children. – Sources include dust from deteriorating lead-based paint, especially in homes built before 1978 and lead leaching into drinking water from older plumbing, among others. -The law requires all children in Michigan to receive blood lead tests at 12 months and again at 24 months of age.
In ‘major setback’ for Michigan arts, Trump terminates federal grants

2 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lauren Gibbons |Christine Ferretti

Dozens of Michigan nonprofits saw grants from the National Endowment for the Arts canceled this month Among them: the Progressive Art Studio Collective, a program dedicating studio and exhibition space to artists with disabilities Local theaters, museums and other arts organizations in Michigan fearing financial future for the arts amid cuts DETROIT — In a brightly lit art studio on Detroit’s east side Tuesday morning, Ray Smith was busy adding pops of vivid greens, oranges, yellows and blues...
Detroit City Council candidates debate land bank, home repair

2 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Christine Ferretti

Detroit City Council Member Mary Waters says she’s “on a mission” to dismantle the Detroit Land Bank Authority, an entity she contends has led to the “inhumane” treatment of residents. “I want the land bank gone. I’ll be very blunt about it,” the at-large councilwoman said during a Monday night Meet the Candidates forum hosted by BridgeDetroit in District 3.
Inside Amanda's world

2 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Micah Walker |Christine Ferretti

Hey Detroiters, welcome back to Culture Canvas! Emily Kaczmarek, the writer of Detroit Public Theatre’s latest play, “Soft Target,” talked with me about the new production, which follows nine-year-old Amanda and her toys: stuffed penguin Jonah, American Girl Doll Molly, trusted Diary, and newcomer Ugly–a weighted “emotional support” bunny. While Amanda’s bedroom was once the place for fun and games, it’s now a place of nightmares for the girl as she processes the trauma from a school shooting.