Duggan stops demo program, proposes pay cuts for $300M city deficit from COVID-19

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is presenting City's budget plan to employees Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. The plan will address the projected budget shortfall due to the impact of COVID-19.

Minority hair stylists start relief fund to help business owners during pandemic shutdown

Molette is one of thousands of beauticians and barbers in metro Detroit and Myra Lee is with Abea LLC - a family owned beauty platform and business accelerator dedicated to promoting black and brown businesses - but now they're trying to help them survive.

Closed Detroit businesses are getting help amid pandemic shelter in place

The application process is now closed, but organizers say they're working hard to help these businesses owners stay alive through grants that can total as much as $10,000. 

Restaurants and bars can sell booze back to Liquor Control under new executive order

Governor Gretchen Whitmer's executive order number 46 allows the Liquor Control Commission will buy back booze to help bars and restaurants affected by the coronavirus. 

Feed front line coronavirus workers and support local restaurants with LoopWhole.com

And that's when the idea came: use their site, LoopWhole.com, that already helps businesses owners with their marketing. Grossman says his team was ready to jump in and volunteer.

Beaumont says Wayne site is not closing, workers say they have been left in dark

Beaumont Wayne said in a late statement today that it will be a reserve COVID-19 hospital as COVID-19 patient numbers drop. But people who work there have not gotten any definitive word on whether the hospital is closing.

Mich. airports getting $250M to remain operational during COVID-19

The FAA is set to distribute 10 billion dollars to airports all across the country, with Michigan getting a big chunk of that.

Atwater Brewery breaks down how it makes hand sanitizer
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Mark Rieth of Atwater Brewery walks us through how the beer maker is shifting production to create hand sanitizer for first responders.

Expansion under federal CARES Act planned for Tuesday
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The State of Michigan is planning to announce an expansion of unemployment benefits to workers affected by COVID-19. So far, more than a million citizens of Michigan have filed for unemployment since restrictions went into place.

Dying COVID-19 patient moved from Wayne to Grosse Pointe, family wants to know why

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, says her grandfather is at the Wayne Beaumont hospital.  Nurses informed her family that he was dying from the novel coronavirus. 

Online video by Wayne County Jail inmates claim unsafe conditions amid pandemic

The troubling video from the Wayne County Jail went viral after it surfaced on social media last Friday. The inmates are claiming they have to use clothes and towels for face masks and no one at least there in Division 2, had been tested for COVID-19.

Whitmer signs executive order extending expiration of driver's licenses, ID cards

On Monday Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an Executive Order temporarily extending the expiration of valid driver’s licenses, state identification cards and commercial vehicle registrations that would have expired during the stay home/stay safe declaration.

Online group Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine explodes in popularity

"I was like, 'I'm going to reach out to 500 people, hopefully there are 500 people like me,'" he said. The page now has more than 250,000 followers.