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...
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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: International Overdose Awareness Day marks 25 years of prevention, education and saving lives
Overdoses are down across the country and in particular here in Michigan. Oakland County saw a 37% decrease in overdose...
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: Allen Park welcomes second annual Paint the Park Mural and Art Festival
The Paint the Park Mural and Art Festival returns to Allen Park, in partnership with the Downtown Development Authority and...
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...
The Metro: Mallory McMorrow on the clinics that closed, the race she left, and what her party got wrong
In 2022, Michigan voters wrote reproductive rights into the state constitution. Planned Parenthood of Michigan had fourteen health centers then....
The Metro: How does a new, gigantic bridge affect people living nearby?
The Gordie Howe International Bridge includes a mile and a half of cable and steel stretching across the Detroit River....
The Metro: He came to WDET as an intern. He leaves as its news director
In 2001, Detroit opened its polls with a big question on the ballot. Twenty-one people were running for mayor. Dennis...
CONTAINER on The Metro: Chef Godwin’s Yum Village
Yum Village is an Afro-Caribbean restaurant bordering Detroit’s New Center and North End neighborhoods, just off Woodward Avenue.Owner and chef...
The Metro: Life on Detroit’s canals — and the fix that could end it
You can get to Coriander Kitchen and Farm by car but some people come by boat, down a canal on...
The Metro: What Republican candidates need to do to win Michigan
It’s said that all politics is local. But these days, that doesn’t appear to be so true. Instead, a lot...
