

Pedestrian breaks car windshield at crosswalk
While driving along the 200 block of S. Old Woodward around 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, a Bloomfield Hills man alleged a pedestrian...
Apr 25, 2025


Vehicle stolen from Birmingham home driveway
During the night of Tuesday, April 8, a car parked in a Birmingham resident’s driveway on the 1200 block of Chesterfield was stolen,...
Apr 25, 2025


Pollinators’ threat of chemical over-use
By Stacy Gittleman With the heralding of summer comes the pressure to have the greenest, most weed and pest-free lawn in the...
Apr 22, 2025
May 2025
The strength of the social safety net has always been a top personal concern of mine, which has less to do with political leanings and...
Apr 22, 2025
Endless Twilight Zone
Thank you for (David Hohendorf’s) concise and factual column (April/Downtown) While living in an endless Twilight Zone episode, it is...
Apr 22, 2025
Perfect column
David Hohendorf’s article in the April issue of Downtown is perfect. Thank you. Nancy Soisson Birmingham
Apr 22, 2025
Trump’s autocratic behavior
Thanks for writing the editorial on autocracy in the April 2025 edition. I totally agree with David Hohendorf’s perspective on that...
Apr 22, 2025
Freedom of speech/thoughts
Sadly, in this day and age, it takes monumental courage to address the many controversial actions taken by the current administration led...
Apr 22, 2025
Letter to Birmingham
After over a decade of being a Next Board Director, I have resigned. I continue to wholeheartedly believe in the work that the dozens of...
Apr 22, 2025


Sam Abdelfatah
Sometimes a pizza is just a pizza, but for Sam Abdelfatah, owner of Brooklyn Pizza in downtown Birmingham, it has been his life’s passion...
Apr 22, 2025







