Detroit Police Department Increasing Neighborhood Presence by Providing Officers With ‘Take-Home’ Cars
Marissa Gawel/WDET Detroit Police say they will allow certain members of the force who live in the city to take...
Marissa Gawel is a reporter in WDET’s newsroom. She originally joined the station as an intern after working for a social media start-up in San Francisco.
Marissa grew up in Grosse Pointe and then graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in International Studies and German. She’s worked as a cherry picker, photographer, chakra adviser, magazine editor, and innkeeper.
Marissa Gawel/WDET Detroit Police say they will allow certain members of the force who live in the city to take...
Marissa Gawel/WDET Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says more than 300 housing units will be built in the city’s Brush Park....
John Lambert Pearson/Creative Commons The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is awarding $95,000 to support Detroit’s recycling initiatives. The grant will...
A Virginia-based social media firm is giving $100,000 to reduce a backlog of 11,000 rape kits in Detroit. The donation...
Andrea Galluci Detroit officials want residents to maintain and care for 75 parks this summer. The Adopt-a-Park initiative involves volunteers like...
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is granting more than $400,000 to help rehabilitate the future headquarters of the Michigan Chronicle newspaper. Funding...
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources/Creative Commons The alewife and salmon populations in Lake Michigan are on the brink of serious...
Marissa Gawel/WDET Governor Rick Snyder is proposing a plan to create a new district for public schools in Detroit, while the...
Marissa Gawel/WDET Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced this morning that he wants to give the owners of the Ambassador Bridge land...
A new report ranks Detroit as the 32nd most polluted area in the country when it comes to ozone levels....
Marissa Gawel/WDET Ford Motor Company released lower than expected first quarter earnings today. The automaker earned $924 million during the first part of this...
Marissa Gawel/WDET The Regional Transportation Authority of Southeast Michigan is working to unite public transit in Ann Arbor and Detroit...