Detroit Evening Report: EGLE issues air quality alert
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has issued an air quality alert for the state of Michigan. That’s due...
Black women face obstacles to funding, recruitment in running for office
The Michigan Senate is set to lose three women of color from Detroit-area districts. Erika Geiss, Stephanie Chang, and Sylvia...
Detroit Evening Report: Asian American organizations host immigration and detention virtual training
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago is hosting a virtual Immigration and Detention 101 training in partnership with several Asian American...
The Metro: They came to America as toddlers, decades later one is detained by ICE
Immigration enforcement in the United States has escalated sharply this year. Under the Biden administration, the daily number of people...
The Metro: What started in Detroit is now a statewide fight to treat water as a human right
Michiganders have lived with water insecurity for years. Detroit’s mass shutoffs in the mid-2010s put the issue in the national...
MichMash: Bipartisan approaches to Violent Crime Clearance Act, privacy, and more
Michigan lawmakers are working on bipartisan approaches to ensure crimes are accounted for and increase privacy for lawmakers. WDET’s Cheyna...
The Metro: Could I-375 pause rekindle Detroit’s fight for real repair?
I-375 is not just a concrete thoroughfare — it is a reminder of how Black neighborhoods were sacrificed, and how...
The Metro: Expunged on paper, not in court. A Hmong dad’s detention in Michigan
Michigan has long been home to Hmong refugees. The community comprises families who fled war, lived in refugee camps, and...
Detroit Today: State Sen. Stephanie Chang looks to reduce Michigan’s prison population
Mass incarceration is a problem everywhere in the U.S., but it’s taken a particularly strange and problematic turn in Michigan....
How Michigan Democrats want to reform policing
While the police misconduct that resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols occurred in Memphis, Tennessee, it’s not unique to...