How Prepared Is Metro Detroit For a Major Weather Disaster?
Michigan State Police Emergency Management Division Hurricane Harvey’s devastation this week reminds us of a few things. That Mother Nature relents...
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Beau Taylor Takes Over As Detroit’s Lighting Chief
Detroit Public Lighting Authority It’s one of Mayor Duggan’s favorite campaign lines -- especially when people accuse him of not paying...
Fourth Grade Teacher in Houston Describes Flooding [PHOTOS]
Courtesy of Jennifer Eubanks We’ve been watching from afar over the past few days as Harvey, a hurricane-turned-tropical-storm, has hovered...
Does Janice Winfrey Deserve Another Term as Detroit City Clerk?
Incumbent Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey cruised to victory in the primary election earlier this month, setting up a November...
How Does Trump’s Arpaio Pardon Compare to Past Presidential Pardons?
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio embodies the harshest -- critics would say cruelest -- attitudes Americans have toward...
Bait and Switch? Little Caesars Arena Falls Short on Detroit Workers
Eli Newman / WDET Every time a big construction project begins in Detroit, the developers agree to hire more than...
Stephen Henderson and GOP PR Pro John Truscott Hash Out Week’s News
whitehouse.gov Every week, Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson invites someone who disagrees with him politically on the show to have...
Is It Fair to Compare Leftist Protest Groups with Hate Groups?
Courtesy of Dan Gotlieb There's been many huge protests and rallies over the past couple of years, many of them...
What’s Behind Rise in White Anger?
Courtesy of Dan Gottlieb The image published around the world from Charlottesville was of a sea of white men holding...
Do We Need More or Less Argument? University of Windsor Says More
Jake Neher/WDET Let’s say -- for the sake of argument -- that a reasonable and persuasive debate plays an important part...
John Lee Hooker To Be Inducted Into Detroit Sound Hall of Fame on 100th Birthday
National Park Service Tuesday marks what -- most historians believe -- would have been bluesman John Lee Hooker's 100th birthday. He's...
Is There Any End In Sight for the War in Afghanistan?
“Absent 9/11, Afghanistan would not be on the United States radar,” says Professor Trumbore. “And I think it’s a fair...