The Metro: What started in Detroit is now a statewide fight to treat water as a human right
Michiganders have lived with water insecurity for years. Detroit’s mass shutoffs in the mid-2010s put the issue in the national...
Robyn Vincent is the co-host of The Metro on WDET. She is an award-winning journalist, a lifelong listener of WDET, and a graduate of Wayne State University, where she studied journalism.
Before returning home to Detroit, she was a reporter, producer, editor, and executive producer for NPR stations in the Mountain West, including her favorite Western station, KUNC. She received a national fellowship from Investigative Reporters and Editors for her investigative work that probed the unchecked power of sheriffs in Colorado.
She was also the editor-in-chief of an alternative weekly newspaper in Wyoming, leading the paper to win its first national award for a series she directed tracing one reporter’s experience living and working with Syrian refugees.
The Metro: What started in Detroit is now a statewide fight to treat water as a human right
Michiganders have lived with water insecurity for years. Detroit’s mass shutoffs in the mid-2010s put the issue in the national...
The Metro: What it will take to prevent another wrongful conviction in Wayne County
Eric Anderson spent nearly nine years behind bars for a robbery he did not commit. His conviction hinged on a...
The Metro: She looked at the waste stream and saw a lifeline
The recent pause in SNAP benefits has pushed hunger back into the headlines. Families who were already stretching every dollar...
The Metro: A lifetime of fighting for Detroit’s children, now carved in brick and stone
For more than half a century, Helen “Mother” Moore has been a familiar sight at Detroit school board meetings, whether...
The Metro: Big Tech eyes Michigan, but at what cost for residents?
Michigan is racing toward the data center boom that powers artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Lawmakers have approved generous tax...
The Metro: Detroit’s culture, mystery, and memory — now in puzzle form
Walk through Detroit long enough and the city starts talking to you — in murals, in corner bars, in the...
The Metro: As aviation hits rough air, a veteran questions whether government math still flies
Across the U.S., flight cancellations have surged and delays are stretching into long waits. The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered...
The Metro: A Detroit doctor offers a remedy for America’s health care headache
Seeing a doctor in America comes with numerous costs—the wait for an appointment, the hours on hold with insurance, the...
The Metro: What Michigan’s midterm voting signals about access and equity
Voters across Michigan wrapped up a midterm election yesterday that, for many, began weeks earlier during the state’s early voting...
The Metro: At the ballot box, competing visions for the country’s future
It’s Election Day in America, and once again, the question is what kind of country do we want to be?...
The Metro: Rep. Rashida Tlaib on shutdown impacts, crisis in Gaza, Mamdani’s rise
Hunger isn’t inevitable. The United States has the tools to prevent it — but during this historic shutdown, millions of...
The Metro: Federal government shutdown ripples through Detroit’s food systems
Update: Just hours after this segment aired, the Michigan Senate passed a measure that would put $71 million toward food...