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Michigan shows up to proclaim No Kings

Russ McNamara, Quinn Klinefelter, Amanda LeClaire, Colin Jackson June 16, 2025

News

Detroit attorney Todd Perkins formally announced his campaign for mayor on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at the Considine Little Rock Recreation Center in Detroit's North End neighborhood.
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  • The Metro

The Metro: Meet Todd Perkins: Attorney, advocate, and Detroit mayoral hopeful

Nadia Zyiad June 16, 2025
Jerome Vaughn at the Mackinac Policy conference sit down for an interview.
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Mackinac Policy Conference: Victory on roads

Jerome Vaughn June 14, 2025
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at WDET Studios, March 2020.
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Created Equal: Defining Mike Duggan’s legacy in Detroit

Sasha Bacon November 18, 2024

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced last week that he will not seek reelection in 2025, ending a 12-year run that...

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The Decemberists.
  • Culture & Music
  • Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Timely music from The Decemberists, Flint’s Tunde Olaniran + more

Rob Reinhart November 18, 2024

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, The Decemberists capture our current political moment, plus classic Marvin Gaye, the...

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American folk/blues singer Chris Smither, who just turned 80, has a brand new album out called “All About The Bones."
  • Acoustic Café
  • Culture & Music

Acoustic Café: Chris Smither returns with new album at 80; in-studio performances from our first year + more

Rob Reinhart November 18, 2024

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, Chris Smither is our in-studio guest, just as he's turning 80! This is...

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Two Detroit hospitals get ‘F’ grades in patient safety

Zena Issa November 18, 2024

Two Detroit hospitals, both part of the Detroit Medical Center, have received "F" grades on patient safety in a recent...

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FILE - The seal on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington.
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  • Racial Attitudes

Metro Detroiters among those who received racist texts post-election

Tristan McFolley, Associated Press November 18, 2024

Several Michigan residents were among the many men, women and students of color who received a wave of racist text...

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Researchers, policy-makers, and government officials gather to get a briefing on a stream monitoring system in southwest Washtenaw County. The on-site, real time data collection system is one of many in the Michigan watersheds flowing into Lake Erie.
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MI and OH: Different strategies to reduce Lake Erie nutrient pollution

Lester Graham November 18, 2024

Michigan and Ohio are both struggling to reduce the fertilizer runoff getting into Lake Erie which feeds cyanobacterial blooms, also...

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Detroit News reporter Beth LeBlanc joined Zach Gorchow from Gonger News Service on the latest episode of "MichMash."
  • Elections
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MichMash: Potential ‘difficult lame duck session’ looms for Democrats

Hernz Laguerre November 15, 2024

Now that the election is over, we are in lame duck session. This week on MichMash, Gongwer News Service's Zach...

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Residents, stakeholders and local dignitaries gathered in Detroit's North End on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, to celebrate the ribbon cutting for a 29-unit affordable housing complex.
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  • Detroit Evening Report
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  • Politics, Government & Finance

Detroit Evening Report: Community celebrates new affordable housing project in Detroit’s North End

Hernz Laguerre November 15, 2024

Community members gathered in Detroit's North End neighborhood on Tuesday to celebrate the completion of a new $7.3 million mixed-use...

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  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove: Annahstasia’s magnificent voice, St. Vincent’s ‘All Born Screaming’ in Spanish + more

Ryan Patrick Hooper November 15, 2024

New music Friday with Vulfmon & Evangeline, Dawuna, Doves, Mk.gee, Jack White, O & the Mo… but I really gotta...

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The second class of hunting safety graduates from the Black to the Land Coalition.
  • Animals & Pets
  • Community & Quality of Life
  • Education
  • News
  • The Metro

The Metro: Michiganders welcome firearm deer hunting season this week 

Dorothy Jones November 15, 2024

Michigan's firearm deer hunting season officially opened on Friday, meaning thousands of enthusiasts from around the state and beyond are...

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(From left) Dove members Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin and Andy Williams.
  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

In The Groove Pick of the Week: ‘Renegade’ by Doves

Ryan Patrick Hooper November 15, 2024

I first fell in love with Doves when their video for "Catch The Sun" was in regular rotation on MTV2....

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In this Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, photograph, the company logo shines off the grille of an unsold 2019 F-250 pickup truck at a Ford dealership in Littleton, Colo.
  • Auto
  • News

Ford agrees to pay up to $165 million penalty to US government for moving too slowly on a recall

Associated Press November 15, 2024

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will pay a penalty of up to $165 million to the U.S. government for...

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