MoGo Reports 4000+ Rides in First Week
Detroit Bike Share's program saw double the expected ridership in their first week. The system, called “MoGo,” launched last week...
Month: May 2017
UM Receives $58M Grant to Improve Healthcare
WDET Marketing The University of Michigan has received a 58 million dollar grant to help push research and improvements in...
State Superintendent: Move Kids Up a Grade Because They’re Ready, Not Just Older
Photo Courtesy of Dearborn Public Schools State Superintendent Brian Whiston says it’s time to re-think how kids move through the school system...
Sen. Gary Peters: Withdrawing From Paris Agreement Would Send Bad Message to World
Jake Neher/WDET UPDATE (6/1/17 4:43 p.m.): President Trump has announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, but...
The Intersection: Power and Inequality in Detroit
Nearly 50 years after a police raid at 12th and Clairmount streets ignited violence and carnage, WDET and the Detroit...
PBS Examines Science Behind Lead Poisoning in Flint
Courtesy of PBS Residents in Flint continue dealing with the fallout from a government decision that left the city’s water...
Detroit Future City’s Anika Goss Foster On City’s Turnaround, Mackinac Policy Conference
Jake Neher/WDET Detroit Future City is a model by which the city could be re-imagined, where and how to concentrate resources...
AG Bill Schuette Talks Governor’s Race, Support for Trump
Jake Neher/WDET Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is a man who has served in just about every elected roll you can...
Lt. Gov. Brian Calley On Push for Part-Time Legislature, Possible Run for Governor
michigan.gov The first big news of this year’s Mackinac Policy Conference comes by way of Lt. Gov. Brian Calley. The Republican...
Gary Peters Joins Detroit Today from the Mackinac Policy Conference
This week President Donald Trump suggested it would be best and easiest to get work done on his agenda if...
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Michigan Man from Mexico [COURT OPINION]
A Michigan man, who emigrated from Mexico, should not have been deported because of his conviction of having a sexual...
GOP Leery of White House Request to Raise Debt Ceiling Soon
congress.gov Trump Administration officials are calling on Congress to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and to do it far sooner...
