Conservative Economist and Stephen Henderson Discuss Tax Bills, Government Shutdown
Pat Batcheller Congress has passed a two-week funding bill, averting a government shutdown. That's at least until December 22. Meanwhile,...
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Will Metro Detroit Voters See Another Transit Millage on the 2018 Ballot?
Matt Trevethan/WDET Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel delivered his State of the County speech on Wednesday night at the Macomb Center for...
Detroit, International Experts React to Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement
Jake Neher/WDET Decades of foreign policy and international consensus has been overturned this week. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared that the...
What Did Kwame Kilpatrick’s Sentence Tell Us About Our Criminal Justice System?
Jake Neher/WDET It's been more than nine years since the fall of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The sharp and charismatic...
Conyers’ Resignation Opens Up Possible Free-For-All to Fill Seat
Jake Neher/WDET On Tuesday, the storied congressional career of John Conyers came to an end. Despite Conyers’ accomplishments and legendary...
Noel Night Shooting: Why Do Kids Feel The Need To Carry Guns?
J. Carlisle Larsen On Saturday night, thousands of Detroiters and Metro Detroiters came down to Midtown Detroit for Noel Night,...
Rep. Sander Levin Talks Retirement and Tax Bill
levin.house.gov Over the weekend, we learned Michigan will soon lose the institutional knowledge of a long-time sitting congressman. Congressman Sander Levin...
GOP Sells Soul with Tax Plan, says Libertarian Shikha Dalmia
Jake Neher/WDET Late last week -- in the middle of the night -- U.S. Senate Republicans pushed through a major overhaul...
NPR Reporter Don Gonyea Talks About Calls on John Conyers to Resign
Laura Weber-Davis/WDET Calls for Michigan Congressman John Conyers to resign are growing after multiple women have come forward accusing him...
“People Were Scared of Him…He Owns You” Former Conyers Aide, Accuser Tells Detroit Today
Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET By now, many of us have heard what Marion Brown, a former aide to Congressman John Conyers, said he...
PREVIEW: Conyers Accuser to Speak Out on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET The former aide to Congressman John Conyers (D-Detroit) who settled a sexual misconduct complaint against him is now...
Will Net Neutrality Soon Be A Thing of The Past?
Jake Neher/WDET The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on December 14 to repeal Obama-era regulations that protect net neutrality. The...