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The Gordie Howe International Bridge across the Detroit River
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Downtown

Detroit got a second bridge to Canada, and almost nobody noticed

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The first new road crossing to Windsor since 1929 opened this year. It is publicly owned, it was paid for by another country, and it arrived a year late to very little fanfare.

A platform inside a Detroit People Mover station
Mx. Granger · CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
New laws

Eight things that quietly became law in Michigan this year

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Most of them arrived on 1 January without anybody announcing it to you. Two put money in your pocket, one takes it back out, and one exists because of a ticket queue.

Signage inside Little Caesars Arena
Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sports

The Red Wings open camp in two weeks with no general manager

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Steve Yzerman is gone, the captain has asked to be traded, and the man currently running hockey operations is not allowed to make a trade or sign anybody.