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Bridge swept online general news and investigative categories on its way to winning 19 awards last week at an annual awards ceremony of the Detroit chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists. Weeks after being named “Newspaper of the Year” in its division for the second consecutive year by the Michigan Press Association, Bridge took three first-place awards from the SPJ, three second-place, three third-place and eight honorable mention awards. Bridge also shared a first place and second place award with its media partners. The awards were for stories that ran covered topics as diverse as the Flint water crisis and misappropriation of welfare money to mass transit and childcare. ....
Ron French Few stories encapsulate the chaos of remote learning during a pandemic like this yarn from reporter Ron French and photographer Daytona Niles, illustrating how one family with wonky internet is trying to hold it together. Among other lessons from 2020, the pandemic underscored that the digital divide in Michigan, as one-third of residents in the northern Lower Peninsula lack high-speed internet necessary to learn during the coronavirus. Joel Kurth Squeezed by state funding, a handful of Michigan school districts thought they found a solution: Offering online classes in karate, horseback riding, ice-skating and other non-essential courses to homeschool students. The trend generated tens of millions in new state funding until auditors realized the programs didn t meet state standards and demanded repayment. ....
Video of the killing prompted protests the next day in Minneapolis that spread to more than 2,000 cities, including at least 15 cities in Michigan. The killing prompted calls for police reform and systemic change that have yet to materialize. Below, we examine the top social justice stories of the year, while Thursday we revisit Bridge’s education and business coverage. The Legislature dawdled as activists filled the streets to protest the failure of a grand jury to indict police for the March 13 death of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville, Kentucky, woman shot in her own home. Police reform measures stalled amid growing national divisions over race and violence, prompting one Detroit protester to proclaim: ”It shows how people in the streets have to take things into their own hands in order to make the necessary reforms real.” ....
The Edenville Dam’s failure, following decades of warnings from regulators who warned the dam had structural deficiencies, presents a case study in what happens when America’s aging infrastructure collides with a broken regulatory system that is largely powerless to force changes at unsafe dams. Kelly House Science experts believe Michigan’s ongoing high water crisis will repeat with increasing frequency as climate change alters weather patterns in the Great Lakes region. That makes coastal land use policy a longtime blind spot in Michigan more important than ever. Kelly House As Michigan’s overfilled lakes wreak havoc on shoreline infrastructure, state regulators have granted record numbers of permits to armor the harden with seawalls, boulders and other armor. But at best, those structures are short-term fixes. And they come at a long-term price, worsening erosion over time and breaking up the sandy beaches that bring in tourists. ....