Speed Humps Now Allowed on Detroit Streets
For Detroit residents with problems of drivers speeding down neighborhood streets, a solution is coming. Earlier this year, WDET reported on...
Laura Herberg is a Reporter for 101.9 WDET, telling stories about people inhabiting the Detroit region and the issues that affect us here. She won a Regional Murrow Award for best Hard News story (Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio) in 2020 and she was named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for radio broadcasting in 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017. In 2012, she was awarded a SoundCloud Fellowship for her project, "Listen to Detroit." She also is the creator of Complete Me, a podcast with only three episodes about how she has trouble completing tasks.
Before becoming a radio reporter, Laura worked, among other things, as a buser, a telemarketer, a canvasser and a magician's assistant. She is originally from the Seattle area but lived in five other cities before settling on Detroit in 2010.
The Future of Operations at the Rouge Park Golf Course in Detroit
WDET/Laura Herberg In the 1990s, golfers could choose from six municipal golf courses in Detroit: Belle Isle, Chandler Park, Palmer Park,...
CuriosiD: Who Designed the Rouge Park Golf Course?
WDET listener, Jeff Currier, is a 32-year-old golf enthusiast from Ferndale. He asked CuriosiD: "Who designed the Rouge Park...
StoryCorps Detroit: How I Became Muslim
Lehman Robinson decided to become Muslim when he was a teenager, working at a secular Michigan summer camp. StoryCorps In...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: How I Became Muslim
StoryCorps Lehman Robinson converted to Islam when he was a teenager working at a secular Michigan summer camp. In...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Someone I Could Be Myself With
StoryCorps Detroiter Spencer Barefield first met his wife, Barbara, while playing at Cobb’s Corner, a now shuttered jazz...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated? [PHOTOS]
StoryCorps Sean Ryan Everett is the executive director of the Detroit Public Library Foundation and Crystal Powell is the board...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: How is the Force Today?
StorCorp When Detroit Institute of Arts Security Guard Roderick Walker greets the Museum's Director, Salvador Salort-Pons, he asks an...
Prepare to Vote: Transit and the Candidates for Michigan Governor [VIDEO, TRANSCRIPTS]
VIEW FULL DPTV PLAYLIST OF CANDIDATE RESPONSES ON TRANSIT Is transit YOUR issue - whether you're for or against...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Chalk Drawings on the Hudson Building
StoryCorps Maurice Greenia, Jr. is an artist and performer from Detroit. In the mid-1990s, he decided to brighten up the boarded-over display windows...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: What Happens When a Father is Deported?
StoryCorps Diana Lara’s father was deported to Mexico when she was thirteen years old. Lara, her mother, and her...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: Not Ready to Die
StoryCorps Detroiter Roy Sims was diagnosed with a serious heart condition that doctors told him would be his demise. "It...