Detroit Today: Twitter’s future under Elon Musk’s ownership
Recently, many Twitter users began seeing an image of a dog instead of the customary bird logo. The image is...
Sam Corey is a producer for 101.9 WDET, which includes finding and preparing interesting stories for the daily news, arts and culture program, The Metro. Sam joined WDET after a year and a half at The Union, a small newspaper in California, and stints at a variety of local Michigan outlets, including WUOM and the Metro Times. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.
Detroit Today: Twitter’s future under Elon Musk’s ownership
Recently, many Twitter users began seeing an image of a dog instead of the customary bird logo. The image is...
Detroit Today: Why Gen Z is gravitating toward vaping and e-cigarettes
If you go to Europe or Asia, you’ll notice how common smoking is. Americans, by contrast, have created really strong...
Detroit Today: Why GM is offering buyouts to salaried employees
In a move General Motors says it’s making in hopes of avoiding layoffs, the manufacturer is offering voluntary buyouts to...
Detroit Today: What a 4-day workweek would mean for productivity and quality of life
The 40-hour workweek has been the tradition in the U.S. for decades, but new data shows there could be an...
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow discusses historic upcoming legislation in Lansing
Politics demands a lot of long, drawn-out negotiations. It requires working with a range of people from a variety of...
Detroit Today: Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter discusses how the region is changing
If you drive north down the Woodward corridor, you may notice a change in the political climate. Black Lives Matter...
Detroit Today: How the US economy is improving for low-wage workers
The jobs market in the U.S. has changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic started three years ago. Businesses like Starbucks,...
Canada’s Industrial Federal Minister discusses how its future is linked with the U.S.
Last year was a big one for the United States politically. The Biden administration passed three major legislative packages —...
Amid frequent outages, Michiganders question the value of public energy utilities
Over the last two weeks, hundreds of thousands of Michiganders lost power. This was cause for outrage — but it wasn’t...
Detroit Today: dream hampton talks hip-hop’s evolution, its misogyny problem + more
Detroit has produced many critically-acclaimed artists and creators — including filmmaker, writer and producer dream hampton. In 2019, she was...
Why young people don’t run for office — and the people trying to change that
U.S. politics have been called a “gerontocracy” by some. What that means is people in office today are old —...
Detroit Today: Developers defend District Detroit project expansion
Once a project that was supposed to bring up Little Caesars Arena and other developments in the surrounding area, it...