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Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield says up to 900 city employees may need raises to bring their wages up to what she calls a livable standard.

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield’s budget plan is balanced, but slightly smaller than recent years due to what her administration calls “a tightening revenue environment."

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and others say the new Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety will support neighborhood-based work to interrupt cycles of violence.

A Detroit businessman attempted to enlist the president's help to slow-roll the new Gordie Howe International Bridge. Canadians are not having it. Elsewhere, new leadership at Detroit City Hall reimagines how housing, health, and other human services get delivered to residents.

Rx Kids, which provides cash to help expectant mothers cope with bills, expenses and the high cost of taking care of children, is coming to Detroit. Mayor Mary Sheffield announced Monday that Michigan State University’s Rx Kids program is expected to open within the first 100 days of her taking office.

Mayor Mary Sheffield was sworn in on January 1, 2026, as Detroit’s 76th mayor, making history as the first woman elected to lead the city.

Detroit has 11 consecutive years of balanced budgets since it exited bankruptcy in 2014. The surplus for the latest fiscal year is $105 million, and the city has almost $550 million in reserves.

Mayor Mike Duggan said grants from the Trump and Biden administrations have allowed it to buy 129 new buses, representing more than 40% of Detroit’s entire fleet, and new funding from a state transportation package means both bus drivers and mechanics will get much-needed raises.

Detroit’s Reparations Task Force has submitted its long-anticipated report of recommendations to the City Council for programs to repair harms and compensate Black residents for historically unjust city policies.

After a new task force report urging an overhaul to the court funding system in Michigan was released this week, state lawmakers will consider how to end the reliance on fines and fees from defendants. Plus, bipartisan bashing of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and a second plea deal in ex-Speaker Lee Chatfield’s corruption case.