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Anna Clark

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Detroit, MI, United States

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Past articles by Anna:

The tests are vital. But Congress decided that regulation is not

Money and lobbying help shield lab-developed tests, including prenatal screenings, from heightened federal scrutiny. → Read More

America’s adult education system is broken. Here’s how experts say we can fix it

Experts say that more money is critical to improving the national system. Many states have developed creative solutions in spite of their limited funding → Read More

Why America Fails Adults Who Struggle to Read

The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them. → Read More

These Children Fled Afghanistan Without Their Families. They’re Stuck in U.S. Custody.

Nearly 200 Afghan children brought here without family by the U.S. government during the haphazard military pullout are languishing in federal custody. → Read More

Covering Michigan’s election standoff

Typically, after the first Tuesday in November, exhausted political reporters might expect to catch their breath. This year—as a sitting president and his allies used a flurry of lawsuits, recounts, and accusatory rhetoric to try to overturn the voting results—Election Day was only the beginning, especially for journalists in swing states like Michigan. “It’s been […] → Read More

The last days of the Cleveland Plain Dealer

As a new intern at the Plain Dealer, Scott Stephens signed his first union card in the summer of 1981. It was a good time to be a journalist in Cleveland. The Sunday edition was several hundred pages long and included a glossy weekend magazine. The first-year pay scale, $305 a week, “seemed like a […] → Read More

He Was Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years. It Wasn’t DNA Evidence That Got Him Out.

Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last. → Read More

Preserving the Legacy of Black Baseball in Detroit’s Hamtramck Stadium

Preservationists are finally rallying to save what were once “the heartbeat" of black communities—like Hamtramck Stadium, the home of the Detroit Stars. → Read More

Magazine censored, editor dropped for covering Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic newspaper

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford bought a newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan, and used it to publish an anti-Semitic 91-part series called “The International Jew.” The centennial for Ford’s stint as a media mogul cued a local magazine to put together an 11-page package that re-examined Ford’s bigotry and traced its influence to modern-day white […] → Read More

Detroit’s game-changing sports reporter on a half-century of work

Here is the usual path for an aspiring sportswriter: start by covering high schools. Think crosstown rivalries. Homecoming games. Friday night lights. After a few years, you’ll get a shot at the bigtime college and pro beats. Mick McCabe didn’t do it like that. He’s covered high school sports for 49 years and counting—a remarkably […] → Read More

After Flint, Michigan's Top State Health Official Has Been Indicted. He's Still on the Job.

The director of the state's Department of Health and Human Services will face trial for his role in the city's water crisis. He still leads a department with over 14,000 employees and a $24 billion annual budget. → Read More

‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people – podcast

When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem → Read More

The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy

Next City contributor Anna Clark recounts how a brave professor and determined activist tirelessly worked to expose government negligence and bring national coverage to a population of people poisoned by their own water supply. → Read More

‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people

The long read: When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem → Read More

In an era of disinvestment, how should local news push back?

Legacy news outlets have a unique mission to serve the public good. Their very names offer up a litany of place and purpose: the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Charlotte Observer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Detroit Free Press, the Elkhart Truth. That makes the recent news of layoffs, cuts, buyouts, and closures not just sad, but […] → Read More

Some of the best opioid coverage is not where you’d expect

AUSTIN JONATZKE of Stevensville, Michigan, didn’t live a long life, but his family wants you to know how meaningful it was. He adored his redheaded nieces and nephew. He fished, camped, and cheered for the Dallas Cowboys. He had a kind heart. His family also wants you to know that when he died at age […] → Read More

Mass Shootings Are the Systemic Crisis Of Our Time

Gun violence is more frequent and far deadlier than the riots of the 1960s. So why aren’t we treating it with the same seriousness? → Read More

With teamwork and hustle, Toledo Blade dominated after Charlottesville attack

It’s not often that The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, takes an all-hands-on-deck approach to a national story rooted in a city nearly 550 miles away. But it happened this week. A large rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly on Saturday, when a man in a Dodge Challenger drove into a crowd of […] → Read More

With teamwork and hustle, Toledo Blade dominated after Charlottesville attack

It’s not often that The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, takes an all-hands-on-deck approach to a national story rooted in a city nearly 550 miles away. But it happened this week. A large rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly on Saturday, when a man in a Dodge Challenger drove into a crowd of […] → Read More

Next Land Bank Director Sees Chance to Make Big Changes in Detroit

What she'll bring from her work in Philadelphia and Charlotte. → Read More