Providing Context for the Shooting Death by Police of an Unarmed Man in Dearborn

JJ/Creative Commons Dearborn is the first city in southeast Michigan to make news for the shooting death of an unarmed...

Governor Snyder Weighs Straight-Ticket Voting in Michigan

Pkay Chelle/Creative Commons UPDATE at 11:29am on 1/5/16 Breaking from Michigan Public Radio's Rick Pluta: Governor Rick Snyder has signed a...

Great Lakes Water Authority Officially Takes Over Operations

As of January 1, 2016 the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department and seven counties in SE Michigan officially merged operations...

WDET’s New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Specials

WDET's Ann Delisi and Rob Reinhart sit down together and review the year in music.  Listen to the hour which includes...

Ann Delisi and Rob Reinhart’s Discuss the Essential Music of 2015

Ann Delisi, host of Essential Music on WDET (weekend days at 11 a.m.) and Rob Reinhart, host of both Essential...

WDET’s Christmas Day Specials

WDET's Ann Delisi shares some of her favorite holiday songs, featuring the voices of Dean Martin, Scarlett Johansson, Aretha Franklin,...

WDET’s Reading of The Polar Express and a Conversation with the Author

Flickr Creative Commons WDET's Laura Weber Davis speaks with "The Polar Express" author and Michigan native Chris Van Allsburg, and...

A look at Holiday Music through Movies and TV Specials

Sit back and relax as Afterglow  presents some of our holiday favorites from television and film.  Enjoy timeless classics performed by...

The Coverage: Detroit Bankruptcy One Year Later

In this special end-of-the-year program, WDET’s Sandra Svoboda recaps the “Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later” project and showcases some of...

Ta-Nehisi Coates Voices His Thoughts on Mass Incarceration in Detroit and Beyond

Sean Carter Photography Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote what is arguably the most important book on race in a generation. "Between The...

Justice for All…Where the Environment is Concerned

Pollution knows no boundaries. “It’s important to understand that if it’s bothering Detroit, it’s also bothering Romulus, Michigan, it’s bothering...

“Our Environment, Our Waterways”: Top Issues for the Great Lakes

To predict southeast Michigan’s environmental future, look upstream. Candice Fortman That’s what Dave Spratt, chief executive officer of the Institute...