If it isn’t already in your calendar, mark it down now. You don’t want to miss the third annual Morningside/EEV Summer Sizzler on Saturday, July 12 from 1-4 p.m. at Three Mile-Munich Park.

The August 5 primary for city elections may seem far off, but it’s time to start doing some serious vetting of the candidates. At the recent Mackinac Policy Conference, the top five candidates for Mayor appeared onstage together to lay out their visions and policies for continuing and expanding Detroit’s resurgence.

It’s a sign of Detroit’s improving financial health that the $3 billion budget that City Council unanimously approved in early April for the 2025-26 fiscal year includes more funding for many critical services and cultural institutions. This is the twelfth straight year that Detroit has balanced the budget since it went through bankruptcy in 2014.

Although Morningside is in much better condition than it was a few years ago, there are still some blighted vacant houses scattered throughout the neighborhood that need to be dealt with. That’s why we restarted the Blight Brigade. Our first task is to identify the dozen mostblighted vacant properties in Morningside, aka the “Dirty Dozen.”

A sampling of activities that the Morningside Community Organization board has planned for residents — mark your calendars now and stay tuned for more!

This month the city begins drilling down on four different policy areas. Public in-person meetings are being held at the Joseph Walker Williams Community Center at 8431 Rosa Parks Blvd. Each meeting is expected to last about two hours.

For a variety of preventable reasons, measles is coming back with a vengeance in some parts of the country, and it’s only a matter of time before it comes for Detroit’s children if our vaccination rates don’t improve.

Every April, at the Morningside Community Organization general meeting, we take nominations for the Board of Directors. Nominations are also open just before the election is run at the May general meeting.

Here is a list of addresses in Morningside that we know once had homeowners likely eligible for these funds.