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For 35 years, The Detroit News has tipped its newsboys cap each year to some of our state’s most inspiring people. We’ve saluted more than 400 individuals whose excellence, courage, philanthropy or simple acts of kindness uplift not only the metropolitan area but all of Michigan.
U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade could have gloated after securing a conviction against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in one of country’s largest public corruption cases in decades. Instead, she marked the jury verdict March 11 with a mix of satisfaction and sadness.
Perry Watson remembers a 12-year-old Jalen Rose walking up to him and declaring, "I'm going to play for you."
Just like the thousands of parents she serves as head of the Detroit Parent Network, Sharlonda Buckman knows how tough the job of parenting can be. She is one.
Call her the “Mayor of Midtown.” Sue Mosey, president of the nonprofit Midtown Detroit Inc., is a no-nonsense urban planner who shrugs off accolades and is quick to point to others who’ve helped bring life and buzz back to Midtown — an area encompassing Wayne State University that stretches from Orchestra Hall to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The driver was 102, the car was 83, and the speedometer hit 70. The place was Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where you could say Margaret Dunning of Plymouth crossed another item off her bucket list last month — except the truth is, she’s unfamiliar with the term.
It was 2009, and Dan Akerson, then new to the General Motors Co.’s board, was stuck in traffic trying to get to a meeting. He ventured off the main route and drove into Detroit neighborhoods.
At first, Dan and Charlotte Peyerk’s post-retirement project was about family and close friends. Those were the people the couple initially thought of when they purchased more than 1,100 acres of beautiful woodlands in southern Alcona County.
To Dan Loepp, nurturing Detroit’s comeback makes good business sense, but it’s also a work of love.
Perhaps if more people living in Detroit had the imagination and generosity of young Joshua Smith, there'd be no need for an emergency manager.
Mary Liz Curtin just wants you to smile. It’s easy to do when you walk inside Leon & Lulu, her home goods store.
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