Michigan’s Local Leaders Losing Confidence in State Leadership
Poor roads and the failure to find a funding solution to fix them. State tax policies, including the new income...
A nine-month stint with The Associated Press brought Sandra to Detroit...27 years ago. She has a bachelor's in journalism and history from Indiana University, and along the way added two master's degrees, one in library and information science and another in public administration, both from Wayne State University. Sandra has worked for The (Toledo) Blade covering education/children's issues, Detroit’s Metro Times and FEMA, where she deployed to Louisiana to help coordinate/communicate about community rebuilding/planning efforts for/after disasters. Sandra has won awards for broadcast, print, digital and community engagement work from the Michigan Associated Press, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, State Bar of Michigan, Michigan Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit chapter. WSU’s Public Administration program named her Alum of the Year in 2015 for her WDET work covering Detroit's bankruptcy. Sandra teaches adjunct faculty at Wayne State (political science) and UM-Dearborn (graduate public administration program). She volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit and with Freedom House Detroit. She loves her husband, dog, bicycle, usually in that order. Find her sailing on the Detroit River in her spare time.
After Detroit: Fiscal Lessons Learned for Other U.S. Municipalities
Detroit’s bankruptcy did not set off a national wave of municipal Chapter 9 filings, but the case continues to draw...
Detroit’s Parks Adoption Program: By the Numbers [Data]
Organizations have adopted 77 of the 307 city parks this year, which means volunteers are mowing, cleaning and planting in...
Experience the News: Detroit Parks Edition
Experience the News: Detroit Parks Edition Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 Did you know that the city of Detroit spends about...
HUD Funding to Aid In Greening Detroit’s Infrastructure
A year ago, torrential rains caused flooding throughout southeast Michigan, hitting some of Detroit’s neighborhoods particularly hard. Nearly 60,000 households...
How Can Parks Create Habitat and Help Improve the City’s Environment?
Edible roofs, pavement that re-absorbs stormwater, butterfly habitats. All three features are possible in parks, but aren't necessarily done because...
Belle Isle Nature Restoration: A Tour of the Park’s East End [Map]
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has initiated an extensive ecological restoration program at Belle Isle with support from Friends of Detroit...
Detroit Bonds to be Sold with “A” Rating
The Standard and Poor’s agency is rating some Detroit bonds as investment grade, specifically the $245 million in exit financing issued...
Analyst: Detroit’s Forthcoming Bond Sale Designed to Protect Investors
UPDATE: Mayor Mike Duggan held a 3 p.m. EDT news conference to discuss the "investment grade" rating the city has...
Detroit’s Citizen Radio Patrols Are Eyes on Neighborhoods
Earlier this year, the Detroit City Council agreed to spend $270,000 on citizen radio patrols. But because the expenditure wasn’t in...
Coming Soon: New Detroit Bond Rating
Detroit city officials are waiting for rating agencies to determine essentially how much it will cost to borrow $245 million...
See Part of the Report that Detroit City Council Wants Before Voting on Ambassador Bridge Deal
WDET obtained a copy of this "Remedial Investigation Report," done by Stantec Consulting Services Inc. on behalf of DTE Energy...