Are Controversial Programs in Detroit Actually Reducing Crime?
Jake Neher/WDET Detroit’s Project Green Light now has 500 businesses signed up around the city. Mayor Mike Duggan, Police Chief...
Are Controversial Programs in Detroit Actually Reducing Crime?
Jake Neher/WDET Detroit’s Project Green Light now has 500 businesses signed up around the city. Mayor Mike Duggan, Police Chief...
160 Years Ago A Meeting In Detroit Helped Set the Course of American History
Penguin Random House 160 years ago, abolitionist John Brown came to Detroit with 11 former slaves seeking freedom across the...
Current and Former Secretaries of State Talk Transparency To Kick Off Sunshine Week
Wayne State University Current Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is pursuing major transparency reforms, including an effort to make sure all money in politics...
MichMash: Road Funding Debate Complicated by Urban-Rural Divide
WDET Digital The road funding debate is in full swing at the state Capitol. As part of the weekly series...
State’s Richest County Just Created Universal Free Breakfast Program
Gus Navarro/WDET The richest county in Michigan is doing something unprecedented for its low-income residents -- as well as many...
How Concerned Should We Really Be About Our Data and Privacy Online?
Jake Neher/WDET Technology makes our lives a lot easier and faster. The phones that are constantly in our hands, for instance, are...
A Detroit Woman is Teaching People in Brooklyn How to Buy Real Estate in Detroit
Asia Denson stands in front of a group of people in a conference room at a Hilton Hotel in Brooklyn,...
Duggan Tries to Make Case City’s Comeback Equitable, Reaching Neighborhoods
Jake Neher/WDET Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan gave his sixth State of the City speech on Tuesday. Duggan, as he does...
‘Documenters’ Project Launches New Round of Training for Residents Covering Local Meetings
Tafari Stevenson-Howard WDET, Outlier Media, Citizen Detroit, and City Bureau have been teaming up for several months to help Detroiters attend and document public meetings. ...
Are Michiganders Willing to Shoulder a 45-cent Gas Tax Increase for Better Roads?
Jake Neher/WDET Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking lawmakers to approve a big gas tax increase to fix the roads -- 45 cents...
Michigan’s Options for Fixing the Damn Roads
Joan Isabella/WDET Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will lay out her first budget proposal this week. We expect it will explain in more...
What Is the Lake Erie Bill of Rights?
It's been almost five years since toxic algae polluted Toledo's water supply. Despite efforts to reduce phosphorus and other pollution...