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The Metro: Mallory McMorrow on the clinics that closed, the race she left, and what her party got wrong

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By Robyn Vincent Verified
| WDET-FM (Detroit MI) Verified
In 2022, Michigan voters wrote reproductive rights into the state constitution. Planned Parenthood of Michigan had fourteen health centers then. Today, it has seven. Planned Parenthood says it sees nearly 60,000 Michiganders a year. Of the three centers that closed at the end of July, none performed procedural abortions. They closed on a single day. Lansing, Livonia, Warren. The Ferndale clinic is still open because Oakland County commissioners voted on Aug.
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The Metro: She rebuilt her block when Highland Park couldn’t. Now she wants to run the city

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By Robyn Vincent Verified
| WDET-FM (Detroit MI) Verified
In 2011, Highland Park couldn’t pay its electric bill. So DTE took the streetlights off the poles, about 1,400 of them. When the lights left, residents put some back. On Avalon Street, that was Shamayim Harris. She’d bought a house there for $3,000. It was months after a hit-and-run driver killed her 2-year-old son. She kept building. A park in his name. A garden. A house where kids do homework. The block became Avalon Village. She became a CNN Hero and a USA Today Woman of the Year.
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The Metro: He came to WDET as an intern. He leaves as its news director

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By Robyn Vincent Verified, Sam Corey Verified
| WDET-FM (Detroit MI) Verified
In 2001, Detroit opened its polls with a big question on the ballot. Twenty-one people were running for mayor. Dennis Archer was stepping aside after two terms, and Detroit was about to pick somebody new. But that wasn’t the focus for long. Because the day was Tuesday, Sept. 11, and the twin towers came down that morning.
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