Detroit

And now the site's engulfed in Bedrock...twitch, twitch.

The Land Value Tax Plan

Detroit’s Land Value Tax Plan is a way for Detroit voters to decide whether to cut homeowners’ taxes by an average of 17% and pay for it by increasing taxes on abandoned buildings, parking lots, scrapyards, and other similar properties.

If the Michigan Legislature authorizes, Detroit City Council would decide by November, 2023 whether to place the issue on the ballot. Detroit voters would decide whether to adopt the Land Value Tax at the February, 2024 Presidential primary election. Homeowners would see the full tax cut in 2025.

Make your voice be heard:

• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D4 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 24, 5:00 p.m.
• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D3 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 24, 6:00 p.m.
• NOTICE OF PUBLIC OUTREACH - D7 Land Value Tax Plan, Oct. 25, 5:00 p.m.

Get yer EMO on, last-minute-style! With...

• Every Avenue
• The Summer Set
• State Champs
• LØLØ

You know you wanna! Show starts at 5:30pm.

Take a walk!

Doom! Plugging his new book That Fountain Ain't Gonna Grant Your Wish.

I was not a musician, I was a guy in a band. A vast difference between being a musician and holding a microphone -- I was musician-adjacent.

Detroit Rock City! Didja go? Did it rock? Do you care?

ED LOVE!
Say it again!
ED LOVE!

Not only a Detroit broadcast legend, not just Mayor Coleman Young's drinking buddy, the bulletproof Love is an American treasure! You can quote me on that.

For the rest of the planet outside of WDET's broadcast range: Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program.

Title says it all. When I right-click on it and open the image in a new tab I get...

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(That was a bunch of fun because that message is delivered as an image and I had to type it all out instead of copy/paste!)

Could someone here please confirm the avatar is broken and if so, could a moderator here fix it? Or is the avatar supposed to reflect the Detroit streetlight situation?...that's a joke.

Thank you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6969090

...Hundreds of appointments cancelled due to purposely complicated forms.

"Try to figure out what you're supposed to print. See if you get it right," says [Dr.] Crissman. She also testified last month in support of the Reproductive Health Act at a committee hearing in the state capitol in Lansing. She spoke as the advocacy chair of the Michigan Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "Because everyday I see patients who've driven five hours for abortion care. And they haven't gotten it right."

Allow this post some leeway: it's true it's not Detroit-specific but it does affect Detroit residents. Thanks.

👍 ⛽

The bookstore’s brick-and-mortar is a block from the Alger Theater, where it previously ran as a pop-up

From the linked article...

A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents.

Porcha Woodruff, 32, was getting her two children ready for school on the morning of Feb. 16 when six police officers showed up at her doorstep and presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking.

Very impressive historical timeline of the Woodbridge neighborhood near Midtown and Corktown. Interesting to see the stages of growth, decline, and urban renewal from the neighborhood inception to modern day.

Yes, you read that wrong :-)

Normally if I'm out, I'm either at one of the casinos, or a rock/metal/alt show at a bar, but every now and then, such as when wanting a 'classy' spot to take a date :-) i'd like to find some old school class, with some horns. Trumpets, saxes, trombones, and so on.

Someone today suggested Cliff Bell's, downtown, to me. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!