The Metro: Is Detroit’s police oversight board able to hold cops accountable?
Detroit voters created a board of civilian commissioners in 1974 with the power to investigate their own police department....
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The Metro: Is Detroit’s police oversight board able to hold cops accountable?
Detroit voters created a board of civilian commissioners in 1974 with the power to investigate their own police department....
Metro Events Guide: How to spend Labor Day weekend in metro Detroit
There's no shortage of options when it comes to having fun this Labor Day weekend. Events you've waited all year...
The Metro: Why Michigan’s Senate race reveals gaps between candidates and voters
Michigan is in the national spotlight. That’s in part because of the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. If Democrats lose,...
The Metro: Plan to partially remove Flat Rock Dam moving forward
After nearly a year of back and forth with Flat Rock officials and residents, Huron-Clinton Metroparks is advancing a plan...
The Metro: Homicides are down. This former FBI agent credits community leaders.
The FBI put out its 2025 crime numbers this month, and they show the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime...
The Metro: El-Sayed won Michigan and lost Detroit. Pastors could shape what comes next
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed ran the health departments of both Detroit and Wayne County. Three weeks ago he won a U.S....
The Metro: Why ‘the last vestige of acceptable racism’ is intensifying
A week ago, the Dearborn City Council moved its meeting to the public library because they expected a crowd. Police...
The Metro: ‘One Buck Rule’ has Michigan deer hunters divided
Editor's Note: This story was updated to include the 'earn a buck' pilot program being approved by the Michigan Natural...
The Metro: Jay Inslee on where the climate movement should go next
What should we make of the climate movement’s accomplishments over the last decade? On one side, the Inflation Reduction Act...
The Metro: Every American president, in one Detroit room
In 2008, Damon DeWitt was 25, living in Miami. It was an election year, Barack Obama was running on a...
The Metro: How this Democratic Socialist plans to govern Ann Arbor
In November, Ann Arbor voters will decide whether their city should build its own electric utility and stop buying power...
The Metro: After anti-Muslim protest, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud on belonging in America
"Terrorist." "Trojan horse." "Terrorist sympathizer." These are the words top Republican officials have used to describe Muslim Americans in public...