GOP State Sen. Peter Lucido Talks Road Negotiations, Budget, Possible Run For Congress
State lawmakers head back to Lansing on Tuesday after their summer break. They have some hefty tasks to tackle between...
Is It Time To Get Rid Of Michigan’s Law Requiring Schools To Start After Labor Day?
Crain's Detroit Business For a generation of Michigan school children, Labor Day has always marked the end of summer and...
This Community Hosts an Annual Catholic Blessing For Semi Truck Drivers
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Southwest Detroit and 50 to 60 community members gather at Our Lady Queen of Angels church. It’s a...
Weed Shop Laws Go Up in Smoke, But Supporters Say Relax
WDET Digital Last week's elections didn't have a lot of blockbuster races or questions that dominated headlines in Michigan. But...
Want One of FCA’s 5,000 Promised Jobs? Get in Line
Detroit is getting its first new auto assembly plant in nearly 30 years as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles updates a current plant...
Biden and Harris, Bruised During Debate, take Campaigns to Detroit Streets
Former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, among the frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination in many...
Detroit Political Junkies Recap and React to This Week’s Presidential Debates
Jake Neher/WDET The second Democratic presidential debate has come and gone. There was talk of important policy changes, there was...
Cory Booker Ahead of Detroit Debates: “Next Leader of This Country Must Be One Who Can Heal”
senate.gov As we get closer to the second round of Democratic debates — which will take place right here in...
NAACP Plots Plan of Attack to Defeat ‘Racist’ Trump
It's a morning session at the NAACP Convention, and a series of speakers are pushing unity. And though this group...
Detroit’s East Side is Already Polluted. Will Fiat Chrysler Make It Worse?
When Amoni Pitts hears trucks working one street over from where she lives, she worries about being able to breathe....
Gov. Whitmer On First Six Months: Legislature Took a Break “Before the Work was Done”
Jake Neher/WDET The first half of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first year in office has passed, and there’s been a lot of...
Malcolm Gladwell on New Season of Revisionist History Podcast
Revisionist History/iTunes Malcolm Gladwell has made a career of making us think twice by taking what we think is true and...