by d3wpadmin | Jan 25, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Migration
The following appeared as a Letter to the Editor in the January 24, 2012 issue of the Detroit Free Press. Immigration hero I wanted to express my congratulations, as well as those of the staff of Data Driven Detroit (D3), to State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, who...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 18, 2012 | Kurt Metzger
In late December, the Census Bureau released its latest population estimates for the nation and states. Since Michigan was the only state to lose population over the last decade, but appeared to be coming out of the recession on the back of a revived auto industry, I...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 6, 2012 | Data Literacy, Detroit, Kurt Metzger
We at Data Driven Detroit (D3) take our data and our geographic definitions seriously. Last year we ranted about Forbes Magazine and their discussion about city crime rankings when they were actually discussing metropolitan areas. Even within metropolitan areas,...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 28, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
Just as I was making a partial recovery from the news of the Light Rail project cancellation, and fighting myself not to send a diatribe to the newspapers, I was greeted with the not wholly unexpected vote by the Troy City Council not to accept the Federal...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 22, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
You would think that gerrymandering the 14 remaining U.S. Congressional Districts and diluting Latino representation in both the Michigan House and Senate districts in Detroit (maps are available through Data Driven Detroit by emailing Askkurt@datadrivendetroit.org)...
by d3wpadmin | Sep 11, 2011 | Kurt Metzger
As Steve Neavling reported on September 9, “The City of Detroit chose not to apply for a $7.5-million grant that would have helped serve 1,500 low-income children through the education program Head Start, council members were told Thursday. Officials at the Department...
