Samuel Corey’s Journalist Portfolio

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How 'Uncle John' helps to integrate new Americans in Hamtramck

How 'Uncle John' helps to integrate new Americans in Hamtramck

Detroit Metro Times — The first day Rahin Rahman remembers being in America, he was trying to get a haircut. Living just within the borders of Detroit's east side,...

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: Statewide races

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: Statewide races

Detroit Metro Times — A number of key state-level positions are up for grabs this election due to term limits. In addition to the governorship, Michigan voters will elect...

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: Proposals

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: Proposals

Detroit Metro Times — Three proposals will appear on the nonpartisan section of the ballot. One would legalize recreational marijuana and the others would help strengthen our democracy through...

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: U.S. Congress

Michigan 2018 Election Guide: U.S. Congress

Detroit Metro Times — Two U.S. House races exhibiting both the "Blue Wave" and the #MeToo movement are playing out right here in metro Detroit. 11th Congressional District: Epstein...

How Detroit's lone 'bail disruptor' is trying to reform criminal justice

How Detroit's lone 'bail disruptor' is trying to reform criminal justice

Detroit Metro Times — Rasha Almulaiki is at work inside Detroit's Division II Wayne County Jail, trying to select people with the right criteria to bail out. The qualifications...

Detroit teens reimagine criminal justice with alternative to new jail

Detroit teens reimagine criminal justice with alternative to new jail

Detroit Metro Times — Last Saturday on Detroit's near east side, groups of teens sat huddled around tables talking about the future of their city. They were discussing something...

Shoemaker Pingree Detroit employs vets to make the first sneakers manufactured in the Motor City

Shoemaker Pingree Detroit employs vets to make the first sneakers manufactured in the Motor City

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Le Detroit Macaron celebrates a sweet one-year anniversary

Le Detroit Macaron celebrates a sweet one-year anniversary

Hamtramck Review — Jamila Kokumo prepares a batch of macrons at Le Detroit Macron Bakery, located on Evaline just west of Jos. Campau. The bakery is celebrating its one-year

Why Republicans want to ban straight-ticket voting in Michigan's November election

Why Republicans want to ban straight-ticket voting in Michigan's November election

Detroit Metro Times — Straight-ticket voting has been around in Michigan for more than 126 years. But Republicans in the Michigan legislature changed all that in 2016, drafting a law...

Bill Schuette on the Affordable Care Act: Then and now

Bill Schuette on the Affordable Care Act: Then and now

Detroit Metro Times — click to enlarge Bill Schuette has softened his position on government-subsidized healthcare as of late. In February, he did not join a federal lawsuit filed by 20 other states that argue the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

Election notes: For many voters, local races, issues are what counts

Election notes: For many voters, local races, issues are what counts

Hamtramck Review — By Sam Corey The Review Special Writer "It's usually dead," said Rahat Hassan, a voting clerk for the 6th precinct, when asked if there's normally a high volume of voters during primary elections. The trickle of voters waiting in line to vote on Tuesday may not have seemed like a lot, but considering past primary elections at the People's Community Services on Jos.

Le Detroit Macaron celebrates a sweet one-year anniversary

Le Detroit Macaron celebrates a sweet one-year anniversary

Hamtramck Review — By Sam Corey Review Special Writer The room inside Le Detroit Macaron is covered with cream-filled eggshells and, on this particular day, a lot of packaging. Ribbons, small miniature boxes just big enough to fill a macaron, and labels brandishing the names of a bride and groom are strewn about a large table behind the clerk counter of this tiny shop on Evaline, just west of Jos.