Hamtramck Review agrees: Immigration is the D's hot topic

With a foreign-born population of over 40 percent and 26 different languages heard in school, Hamtramck is one of the nation's best examples of how a city can thrive on diversity. The city's newspaper of record, the Hamtramck Review weekly, was in attendance for last week's Model D Speaker Series, and they found plenty to report on from our engaging panel of speakers.

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If the folks at Model D, an online Detroit-based media company, have their way, the entire greater metro Detroit region will follow in our fair city's footsteps to achieve the same reputation. In a well-attended meeting this past Tuesday evening, co-sponsored by Wayne State's FM radio station WDET, a cross-section of speakers made the case for the positives of promoting greater Detroit as a "model" for engaging potential new citizens. Read more here.