How The Washington D.C. Lead Crisis Foreshadowed Flint
In 2004, the Washington Post reported that a change in water treatment chemicals at the Washington D.C. aqueduct four years...
How The Washington D.C. Lead Crisis Foreshadowed Flint
In 2004, the Washington Post reported that a change in water treatment chemicals at the Washington D.C. aqueduct four years...
CuriosiD: Holocaust Bones Find Resting Place in Massive Michigan Cemetery
CuriosiD is a regular series where listeners pose questions to the WDET staff, who then investigate the answers. See past posts here.Grosse Pointe Park’s...
Remembering the Moon Landing: Apollo 11 Mission Hits 50th Anniversary
Annamarie Sysling/ WDET This week 50 years ago marked the first time an American astronaut stepped onto the moon. Were...
Brilliant Detroit Converts Blight into Neighborhood Centers. See Its Latest Renovation
Brilliant Detroit Brilliant Detroit renovates abandoned homes in the city, then fills those homes with programs to create what it...
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...
Wayne County Profited $107,000 By Repossessing Homes Over a $144 Tax Debt. Is This Legal?
There’s a new lawsuit challenging Michigan’s predatory home equity theft policy, which allows counties to take property to settle back...
Here’s the Lineup for the 40th Anniversary of Jazz Fest
The Detroit Jazz Festival is fast approaching and will be celebrating its 40th year this Labor Day Weekend. This year...
Jefferson-Chalmers Residents and City Clash Over Flooding
Eli Newman Record high water levels in the Great Lakes and a wet summer have caused flooding along Jefferson-Chalmers, one...
Murder in America is a Million Dollar Problem. One Researcher has a Solution
More than 17,000 people were murdered in the United States in 2017. And last year, according to the Detroit Police...
New Art Installation Is A Surreal Trip Through the City’s Boat Culture
Sarah Blanchette If you wander the former warehouse district less than a block from the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, there’s a 25,000-square-foot...
Proposed Detroit Ordinance Would Measure City’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
There's a new effort to improve Detroit's environmental standards coming from Detroit City Councilman Scott Benson. Earlier this month, Benson...
Ecological Grief: Learning to Deal with Climate Change and Species Loss
With extreme weather patterns becoming the new normal, species loss, climate devastation and expert voices telling us that in the not too distant future many of us...