Preview the 2019 Mackinac Policy Conference
Jerome Vaughn Sandy Baruah joins Stephen Henderson to discuss the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual Mackinac Policy Conference at the Grand...
Preview the 2019 Mackinac Policy Conference
Jerome Vaughn Sandy Baruah joins Stephen Henderson to discuss the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual Mackinac Policy Conference at the Grand...
Forecasters Predict Larger Algae Bloom in Lake Erie [CHART]
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory They're back. Algae are blooming in western Lake Erie, as they do every year,...
Kym Worthy: If Flint Investigation Was Done Properly From Beginning ‘It Would Not Still Be Going On’
Jake Neher/WDET It’s been almost ten years since the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office found more than 11-thousand untested rape kits...
Author, Detroit Native David Maraniss Reflects on How 1950s Red Scare Upended His Family
Jake Neher/WDET The Red Scare of the 1950s was a persecution of liberal intellectuals and activists for their supposed ties...
Teens Say The Suburbs Are Depressing. Here’s What To Do About It.
Jake Neher/WDET There's a lot of conversation surrounding the way we design the places we live — our cities, our towns and...
Where’s the PFAS? Michigan Leads in Detection of Contaminant [MAP]
Environmentalists, health experts and public officials are growing more concerned about a group of chemicals found in dozens of sites across...
U.S. House Members Push Plan to Stop ICE from Deporting Iraqis
Andy Levin A bipartisan group of U.S. House members, including most of Michigan’s Congressional delegation, wants the Trump Administration to...
Democratic Presidential Hopeful Klobuchar Touts Midwest Ties to Michigan
The path to the White House continues to run through Michigan and other Midwestern states that President Trump won in...
AG Nessel Ready to Shut Down Line 5 If Tunnel Issues Aren’t Resolved
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has not ruled out construction of an underground pipeline carrying oil and natural gas liquids beneath...
A Former Inmate and a Prison Abolitionist Weigh In on Whether We Should Eliminate Prisons
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore Is prison necessary? That’s the question posed by a recent New York Times piece spotlighting Dr....
Rick Speck Spent 18 Years in Prison — Now He’s Working to Cut Incarceration in Half
Jake Neher/WDET The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) turns 100 next year. To celebrate, the organization is on a nationwide tour that...
Detroit Native dream hampton Named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People
dream hampton Over the course of three nights in January, the Lifetime channel aired the chilling docu-series Surviving R. Kelly....