CuriosiD: What’s up with all these pheasants?
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this...
Passionate about constructive, honest messages and their impact on the world, Shelby strives to wield her media "powers" for good, and not evil.
She began working at WDET in January of 2014, designing information graphics and producing multimedia stories.
Shelby's also a producer on The Beginning of the End, a dream and passion project for her. (Season 2 debuts in November!) She helped launch the CuriosiD series on WDET and contributes to it bimonthly.
If she's not at work, you can probably find Shelby adventuring with her husband and son, at her church Redeemer Detroit or somewhere in the woods.
Was the First Year of Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance Successful?
Detroit has a new law on the books requiring developers who want tax breaks for large projects to sit down...
Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance Yields Hours of Dialogue and Almost No Community Benefits
In 2016, Detroit voters approved one of the nation’s first community benefits ordinances. The new law requires developers -- who...
Inside Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance Meetings
It's been a little more than a year since voters approved a new law that requires developers who want tax incentives...
School District Closings for Thursday, Dec. 14
Wednesday's winter storm closed public school districts throughout southeast Michigan. Click on the county button to see a list of...
Voter Guide: What are the Issues for Residents of Dearborn?
The Incumbent: John "Jack" O'Reilly The Challenger: Thomas Tafelski JOHN "JACK" O'REILLY Experience: Current mayor of Dearborn, president of the Dearborn...
CuriosiD: How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?
WDET listener Priya Ganji has a diverse group of friends of Arab heritage, and she’s noticed their family, religious...
CuriosiD: Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal
Listener Alli Harnish submitted this question to CuriosiD, and the WDET audience voted to have it answered. Are the many different Cass...
Home on the Range: Audio Profile
Sean Work / Framed by WDET If you’ve never fired a gun before, everyone at Double Action will tell...
Researchers, Community Groups Release Plan to Curb Air Pollution in Detroit
A group of community organizations and researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health released a "public health...
Author Peter Markus Talks New Book on Teaching Poetry in Detroit Schools
Courtesy of Peter Markus Author Peter Markus has spent the last two decades as an Artist in Residence with InsideOut...
CuriosiD: What’s That Smell?
In this episode of CuriosiD, listener Trisha Dring asks ... What's up with the Detroit incinerator? Where is it, what's...