In September, MLive reporter Amy Biolchini and myself traveled to Portland, Oregon to take a look at Oregon’s legalized recreational marijuana program and how it compares to Michigan’srecreational marijuana proposal set to go to the polls on the November ballot.
The proposal passed with 56 percent of Michigan voters saying “yes” to the marijuana legalization initiative.
Recreational marijuana became be legal in Michigan on December 6, 2018.
After 30 years in the U.S., where she raised three children, worked and paid taxes in Sterling Heights, Zahrija Purovic, 50, was put on a plane and sent to Montenegro on Thursday.
Despite no criminal record and a pending motion for a stay of removal in federal appeals court, immigration authorities ordered her to pack her belongings, purchase a plane ticket and appear at Detroit Metro Airport.
Upon arriving with family members and friends around 4 p.m. Thursday, two ICE agents told Purovic that she had not been granted a stay, and escorted her to her flight.
What Venita Thompkins remembers most from July 1967 is her Easter dress.
It was cut from pristine white cloth, adorned with frilly lace, complete with a set of even purer white gloves.
Her mother was wary of giving her chocolate for fear that she might sully the spotless garment. On Easter morning, as her family went to church, Thompkins’ mother stashed the treats in her purse.
It was hot then, as hot as it is in July 2017. The chocolate melted, and when she ate it, Thompkins got it everywhere.
She never got her dress back – it was burned to a crisp at the local cleaners, one of the first casualties of destruction and looting on 12thStreet in the Detroit 1967 riots.
Shannon Henry, 21 of New Boston, was able to walk for the first time since her accident with the help of REX, a robotic walking device on trial at the Detroit Medical Center’s Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. “I haven’t walked in three years, it’s kind of weird,” said Henry. “Sometimes you forget what it is like to walk.”
The conclusion of a Michigan court case that lasted over three years brought emotional reactions and impromptu weddings around the state Friday, June 26, 2015.
Video produced by: Tanya Moutzalias
Video clips by: MLive Media Group photographers and reporters
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