The Music Learning Alliance launched With1note.com Monday. The project will help students find music teachers and supplement the cost of those lessons.

Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee has introduced legislation to allocate federal aid money to communities so they can tear down abandoned homes. He spoke with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen.

Civil Rights attorney and Royal Oak City Commissioner Jim Rasor speaks with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen about a recent challenge to an equal rights ordinance in the city.

WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen caught up with Michigan Economic Development Corporation President Michael Finney at the Governor's Economic Summit.

Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Seth Harris speaks with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen about the President's call to raise the national minimum wage.

Governor Rick Snyder is holding his first annual Governor's Economic Summit in Detroit this week. WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen sat down with the Governor to talk Michigan's economy.

L. Brooks Patterson adds his perspective on the governor's plan to name an emergency financial manager for Detroit.

Allen Park Emergency Financial Manager Joyce Parker tells WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen what measures could help the struggling city.

WDET Producer J. Carlisle Larsen tells her colleague Pat Batcheller why she and many other adults her age don't depend on cars.

Stretching from Mack Avenue to Campus Martius, Detroit’s Thanksgiving parade is one of the largest in the United States. Metro-Detroiters can look forward to floats, clowns, and marching bands. The parade is put together by The Parade Company. WDET’s J. Carlisle Larsen spoke with company President Tony Michaels about this year’s parade.

Metro Detroit has struggled for years to establish a regional transit system… but one group is trying to visualize how a new system might work. Freshwater Transit is the brainchild of Neil Greenberg, who has outlined a series of imaginary rail and bus routes which could connect the city of Detroit to the outlying suburbs.

Troy Mayor Janice Daniels has been a divisive mayor since she was elected in 2011, and making controversial comments about gays and lesbians on Facebook put her on the nation’s radar. She now faces a recall election on Tuesday.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Chai Feldblum will be delivering the 28th Annual I. Goodman Cohen Lecture at Wayne State University tonight.

The U-S Census Bureau has released its 2010 - 2011 figures on poverty throughout the country. Michigan’s poverty rate increased for the third straight year with nearly 18-percent of the population below the poverty line. Doctor Sheldon Danziger is a professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He tells WDET’s J. Carlisle Larsen that the poverty rates are tied directly to slow economic recovery caused by the Great Recession.

Detroit has been the punch line to many of comedian Stephen Colbert’s jokes on his show ‘The Colbert Report’, but one local man is challenging the satirist to visit the city. Josh McManus started the Facebook group, “Colbert Does Detroit…and so can you!” and it has gained a large following of metro-Detroiters.

The think tank “Measure of America” has released a new study which analyzes the young adult population in the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the country—including Detroit. One of the issues explored in the report is “youth disconnection”. Sarah Burd-Sharps is the co-author of the study. She tells WDET’s J. Carlisle Larsen about youth disconnection is and the effects it can have on communities.

Dino Chiodo--President of Local 444 in Windsor and Chairperson if Chrysler Master Bargaining--speaks with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen about the ongoing talks between the union and the automakers.

Rear Admiral Gregory Nosal of the U.S. Navy speaks with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen about Detroit Navy Week and the War of 1812 Bicentennial.

Troy resident John Kulesz--co-founder of the ‘Recall Janice Daniels’ campaign--speaks with WDET’s J. Carlisle Larsen about the effort.

Sam Whitehorn, Executive Director of Download Fairness Coalition, speaks about the ‘Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act’.

Toledo City Council President Joe McNamara speaks with WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen about domestic partner benefits in the the city.

Over 2,000 people have been wrongly imprisoned and exonerated since 1989. The University of Michigan has come together with Northwestern to create a registry to catalog these cases.

Some state lawmakers would like to see Michigan's 'Stand Your Ground' law repealed.

The first annular solar eclipse in almost 18 years will take place on Sunday.

Preservationists are disappointed at the prospect of the demolition of the American Beauty Iron Building. But Wayne State CFO says it is necessary in order to build a state of the art biomedical research facility.

WDET's J. Carlisle Larsen speaks about the history of Chicago's city owned Meigs Field Airport.