by d3wpadmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Food Accessibility, Louis Bach
by Louis Bach, Communications Check out the food insecurity map created by Feeding America, which visualizes the USDA’s measure of households that lack access to nutritionally adequate food. (Food insecurity, in other words, means that a household sometimes goes...
by d3wpadmin | Apr 24, 2012 | Louis Bach, Safety
In Rolling Stone’s story on the organization calling itself Detroit Dog Rescue, the magazine gives voice to an unattributed estimate that the city of Detroit has 50,000 stray dogs. The author, Mark Binelli, acknowledges the number “seems quite inflated,” but the...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 27, 2012 | Louis Bach, MIchigan
The State Integrity Investigation has released corruption risk report cards for all fifty states, and Michigan is among the eight states that received an F for its vulnerability to corruption. Though Michigan received an A for its internal auditing and scores of B-...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 10, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Louis Bach, Macomb County
Next time you’re near a newsstand, be sure to check out Macomb NOW Magazine’s article “The Land of Opportunity: The ‘New’ Macomb County”: In 2011, the Detroit metropolitan economic and political leadership “discovered” Macomb County. At a political event held last...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 8, 2012 | City Council districts, Louis Bach
Last Friday, Data Driven Detroit added its voice to the City Council districting process by releasing an alternative to the four official district map options. Since then, there have been three public meetings for Detroiters to voice their opinion on the map options...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 31, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Louis Bach, Migration
If you enjoyed Rob’s analysis of Michigan moving data, be sure to check out Kurt’s article on that data in Bridge Magazine. Kurt fact-checks statements that Governor Snyder made during his 2012 State of the State Address. Snyder claimed that Michigan’s net migration...
