UAW Ratifies New Contract With Fiat Chrysler, Sets Sights on GM
The United Auto Workers’ rank-and-file has ratified a new four-year contract with Fiat Chrysler. More than three-quarters of the UAW...
Quinn Klinefelter is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, anchoring midday newscasts and preparing reports for WDET, NPR and the BBC. Klinefelter joined WDET in 1998 after earning a M.A. from the nation's top-ranked journalism school, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and working as a sports correspondent for BBC Radio 4 and as a talk show host, anchor and reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio.
He has won over 50 awards for his work from groups including CBS Radio, the Associated Press, the Wisconsin and Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists. He has covered government and politics for WDET, including interviewing numerous presidential candidates, Michigan governors and every Detroit mayor elected in the 21st century. He also regularly reports on sports and entertainment, including covering 20 editions of the Indianapolis 500.
He was literally on top of the news when he finished an interview with then-Senator Bob Dole by stepping on his shoes.
Michigan Congressman Wants Feds to Investigate Flint Water Crisis
A Michigan Congressman is calling for a federal investigation into why elevated levels of lead were allowed to seep into...
Michigan State Officials Say School Now Home to Largest Media Collection in U.S.
Officials at Michigan State University say the school is now home to the nation’s largest collection of media created in...
Star of Hitchcock Film ‘The Birds’ had to Fend Off Fowl, Director
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Halloween is creeping ever closer -- and bringing with it a slew of creepy movies. Halloween is creeping...
Jill Biden Returns to Detroit as Hubby Joe Biden Weighs Run for the White House
The wife of Vice President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, returns to Metro Detroit next week for her second visit...
John Dingell Released From Hospital After Heart Procedure
Retired Michigan Congressman John Dingell has been released from a hospital after undergoing a heart procedure. The 89-year-old Dingell was...
Detroit Civil Rights Icon and Activist Grace Lee Boggs Dead at Age 100
Detroit-based civil rights icon and activist Grace Lee Boggs has died. She was 100 years old. Boggs gained international acclaim...
CuriosiD: Where Did the Michigan Left Come From?
This week’s installment of CuriosiD investigates a question from listener Tim Larrabee. “Where did Michigan left turn-arounds come from?” |...
Congress May Keep Selfridge-Based Fighter Jets Flying
Members of Congress have reached a compromise that that could preserve the fighter jet squadron stationed at Metro Detroit’s Selfridge...
Feds Accuse Quicken Loans of Violating Workers’ Right to Free Speech
The National Labor Relations Board is accusing the nation’s second-largest mortgage lender, Quicken Loans, of overly-restricting employees’ right to free...
Broadway Star Brings ‘Bemused’ Vision to Detroit’s Cabaret 313
Detroit’s Cabaret 313 opens its third season this weekend with an intimate musical performance from a veteran star of the...
Congress Weighs Banning Oil Shipments Across Great Lakes
This week the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies are practicing how they would respond to a catastrophic oil leak...