How AG Sessions’ Marijuana Reversal Will Affect Michigan
Jake Neher/WDET Late last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions removed an Obama-era rule that instructed federal drug authorities not to...
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What Oprah 2020 Buzz Tells Us About Celebrity and Politics
Jake Neher/WDET Politics and celebrity are not natural bedfellows in America, but they are also not terribly estranged. They are...
What Will This Year’s Auto Show Tell Us About The Future of the Industry?
Jake Neher/WDET It’s that time of year… the auto show returns to Detroit this weekend. This year the sparkle and...
The Future of American Manufacturing And What We Can Learn from Germany
Doby Photography/NPR The downfall of American manufacturing is something we’re intimately aware of here in Southeast Michigan. We’ve had many...
Are Trump’s Tweets, Like, Changing the Way We Think About Language?
whitehouse.gov Over the weekend, President Trump made headlines -- again -- for his use of language on twitter. In a...
Do Controversial Bills Have A Chance of Passing in An Election Year?
MPRN It’s an election year, which usually means it’s tougher for controversial bills to make their way through the state Legislature....
Detroit’s Skyline Will Soon Change — Is That A Good Thing?
Laura Weber Davis/WDET When you think about New York City, what do you picture? Perhaps the Empire State Building, or...
You Are Guaranteed The Right to Public Records — But How Easy Is It Actually to Get Them?
If you want to find out what government is up to, you have a Michigan law on your side: The...
The Best Food in Detroit in 2018
Jake Neher/WDET There’s no question the food scene has been changing over the past few years in Detroit and in surrounding...
What The Fallout from ‘Fire and Fury’ Looks Like In Washington
Jake Neher/WDET This week the political world has been abuzz with anticipation over a startling book depicting life in the first...
Federal Judge Orders Bond Hearings for Iraqi Detainees as They Fight Deportation
Laura Weber Davis/WDET Hundreds of Iraqis who have been detained and are fighting deportation got some good news this week....
What’s Ahead for Congress in 2018?
congress.gov With the new year comes new ambitions and new agenda items in Congress. But not every agenda is the...