Jeb Bush Brings Presidential Campaign Back to Michigan
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush visits Michigan this week and is set to host a town hall meeting. Bush is...
Response Times: If You Don’t Like The Numbers, Change the Definition
JJ/Creative Commons As part of WDET’s new series - Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later - Sandra Svoboda spoke with Bridge...
Stephen Henderson Finds Childhood Home Gutted in Detroit
Courtney Hurtt/ WDET If you picked up The Detroit Free Press this weekend you saw a long and stirring column...
Missouri President Resigns: Will Race Relation Improve on Campus?
Mitch Bennett Over the weekend a group of black football players from University of Missouri said they would refuse...
Report: State Officials Aware of Problem with Flint River Water
State officials reportedly knew of problems with Flint’s water supply long before the city switched to a new system that...
The Detroit Today Conversation about “Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later”
The Detroit Bankruptcy ruling is a year old, and WDET’s News Director Jerome Vaughn and Special Assignment Manager Sandra...
Kalamazoo Promise Turns Ten
DucDigital/Creative Commons The Kalamazoo Promise celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. The Promise pays in-state college tuition for all kids...
Ben Carson’s Inconsistencies in His Autobiography
Gage Skidmore / Flickr It was a strange weekend for Republican presidential candidate and Detroit native Ben Carson. Late...
The Story of Detroit’s Bankruptcy: A “Takeover” or an Inevitable Financial Crisis?
Detroit is approaching its one-year anniversary of emerging from the nation’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy, and the city has changed. Perhaps...
City’s Finances, Leadership Culture Changed by Bankruptcy
Irvin Corley Jr. spent the past half-century providing an independent analysis of Detroit’s finances for the City Council. Quinn Klinefelter...
Picking It Up: Changes to Detroit’s Trash and Snow Removal
Throughout the bankruptcy proceedings, cuts to city pensions and threats to the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection ruled the headlines....
Voices of Detroit: A Year After Bankruptcy
WDET's Bre'Anna Tinsley traveled around the city, asking people if they believe Detroit is making a comeback and listening to...