Remembering Marlowe Stoudamire: “He Loved Our City and the People In It”

Detroit consultant Marlowe Stoudamire, a community leader and founder of Butterfly Effect Detroit, died Tuesday due to complications from COVID-19. He was...

Detroit Police Reports First Employee Death Related to COVID-19

A 911 dispatcher employed by the Detroit Police Department has died from complications related to COVID-19.  City officials say the 38-year-old...

Home For Weeks, Families Adjust to New Reality

Just two days after Michigan confirmed it's first two cases of COVID-19, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced she'd be closing all...

Detroit Superintendent Vitti: Keep Schools Closed Through End of Academic Year

Schools should not open again this year wrote Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti in an open letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer and...

Pandemic Art Can Help Find the Balance Between Patience and Panic

The U.S. is weeks into a global pandemic, as schools, stores and public spaces shut down to blunt the spread...

Michigan Approves $20 Million In Small Business Relief In Response to COVID-19

Twenty million dollars in emergency funding for small businesses has been approved by the State of Michigan. The money will go...

Gov. Whitmer On ‘Stay At Home’ Order: Health Is Tied to Economy

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered all Michiganders to stay at home for at least three weeks. Travel is banned, other than...

Questions Surround Whitmer’s “Stay At Home” Executive Order

Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson speaks with reporters and Detroit Regional Chamber CEO Sandy Baruah about Governor Gretchen Whitmer's announcement of...

Michigan Arts Can Move Online, But Still Face Uncertain Future

The spread of COVID-19 is forcing many cultural organizations and artists to cancel events and close their doors to the...

Michigan Announces ‘Stay At Home’ Order, Schools to Remain Closed Until April 13

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order ordering non-essential businesses to temporarily close and Michiganders to stay at home in...

Vote Now in Round 2 Of WDET’s Music Madness Bracket

WDET Who comes out on top in a battle between #4 Iggy Pop and #5 Parliament Funkadelic? Could #11 Rodriguez defeat #3 Alice...

Airline Industry Bailout Could Come With Consumer Protections Attached

Movement to get a Coronavirus stimulus package through Congress came to a standstill over the weekend. "There are so many...