The Metro: The ruin and rebirth of Detroit’s Packard Plant
To some, the story of the Packard Plant mirrors that of Detroit. Built in the early 1900s, the building was...
Sam Corey is a producer for 101.9 WDET, which includes finding and preparing interesting stories for the daily news, arts and culture program, The Metro. Sam joined WDET after a year and a half at The Union, a small newspaper in California, and stints at a variety of local Michigan outlets, including WUOM and the Metro Times. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.
The Metro: The ruin and rebirth of Detroit’s Packard Plant
To some, the story of the Packard Plant mirrors that of Detroit. Built in the early 1900s, the building was...
The Metro: A redo on I-375 reconstruction
The project to reconstruct I-375 is meant to do two things at once: rebuild aging infrastructure and repair the harm...
The Metro: Congressman Tom Barrett works with White House to release Michigander in ICE custody
Aggressive immigration enforcement has intensified nationwide. As of early this month, more than 200,000 people had been arrested by ICE...
The Metro: A new focus on sex, gender and emotions in Michigan classrooms
What should teachers focus on when exploring sexual health with students? How should they broach sensitive subjects? What does it...
The Metro: Why cities should focus on depopulation, not gentrification
As Detroit has been changing over the last decade, one word has come up again and again to describe the...
The Metro: Why the health of Michiganders lags behind others around the nation — and how we can catch up
Health isn’t just influenced by the choices we make. It’s also determined by public policy. That’s the message of a...
The Metro: The power of preventing problems instead of responding to them
In America, we have a lot of very big problems, including climate change, income and wealth inequality and hyper partisanship....
The Metro: Why some Detroiters are missing out on a key opportunity to build wealth
Home ownership is considered to be a critical piece of the American Dream. Wealth is often passed down from generation...
The Metro: The difficulties Michigan hospitals and their patients face as premiums rise
America’s health insurance is distributed in a patchwork way. There are public health insurers, like Medicaid and Medicare, and then...
The Metro: How to improve the care we provide Black pregnant mothers
Birthing is a fragile process. That’s why, with new life coming into the world, it’s the responsibility of a lot...
The Metro: What reparations could look like in Detroit
In 2021, Detroit residents voted to create a reparations task force. The goals include creating housing and economic programs to...
The Metro: The case for a Detroit land conservancy
Detroit has finally started to regain some population, but it has a long way to go. And that means there’s...