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The Importance of Migration in Michigan
D3 Director Kurt Metzger is in the news again, this time featured in a Macomb Daily article covering his analysis of migration patterns in Macomb County. In the report, Kurt examines the counties of origin for new Macomb residents and the counties of destination for...
Michigan Movers and Migrants
Earlier this month, three of the nation’s largest moving companies – United Van Lines, Allied Van Lines, and Atlas Van Lines - released their annual migration pattern studies. These studies, each based upon the origins and destinations of their respective clients in...
Detroit’s Data Guru Featured on WDET
Our own Kurt Metzger was featured on today’s episode of the Craig Fahle Show on WDET, contributing to the ongoing series questioning what it would take for someone to move to Detroit. The series is an outgrowth of a dialogue that began back in December, when Toby...
When You Write About Geographic Areas, Please Be Specific!
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,...
Two Pyramids Are Twice as Good as One
Please join us in bidding farewell to Kevin Chapo as he goes on to pursue other opportunities. Enjoy Kevin's musings on a century-old proposal to build a stone pyramid in the city of Detroit. An interesting article about Detroit surfaced during D3’s hours laboring...
Another Nail in the Regional Transit Coffin
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...
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