The Metro: Paczki Day highlights Polish culture and history
For practicing Catholics, today is the last day to indulge in some of your favorite snacks and treats before lent—and...
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The Metro: Paczki Day highlights Polish culture and history
For practicing Catholics, today is the last day to indulge in some of your favorite snacks and treats before lent—and...
The Metro: How the Negro Leagues transformed baseball and American culture
The Negro Leagues are widely credited with revolutionizing baseball. The aggressive, scrappy, base-stealing style of play was an attraction for fans...
The Metro: Fear is the new recession. How immigration enforcement is affecting small businesses
Across the country, small businesses in immigrant communities are reporting the same pattern: customers are disappearing, workers aren't showing up,...
The Metro: A positive perspective on Michigan’s economy
How is the Trump administration doing overall at managing the economy? There are bright spots: inflation is down, unemployment is...
The Metro: Expert tips for keeping kids safe online
On this episode of The Metro, we tackled a really serious topic: online child exploitation. It’s a criminal act that...
The Metro: President Trump won’t regulate pollution. Can Michigan do that on its own?
In 2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed one of the most aggressive clean energy laws in the country — requiring Michigan...
The Metro: Ann Arbor’s bid to dump DTE and go public
If you live in southeast Michigan, chances are you have a DTE story — the kind where your food spoiled...
The Metro: How connection strengthens community and civic life
Research shows that people who frequently socialize are more likely to participate in politics — to vote, attend meetings, and...
The Metro: The pioneer who founded the Negro Leagues
Rube Foster was a pioneer in American baseball. His efforts in the early 20th century to organize Black baseball teams...
The Metro: A 93-year-old pipe flooded Southwest Detroit. Now GLWA wants historic rate hike
The price of water has been steadily rising in Southeast Michigan. Now, one of the steepest rate increases in the...
The Metro: Metro Detroit’s transit gap is wide. RTA’s plan to close it is slow by design
In metro Detroit, the vast majority of residents live within a 10-minute drive of a grocery store. But if you...
The Metro: The case for creating a greater Detroit
Late last year, Rogelio Landin ran for mayor of Detroit on a simple platform: the city should annex some of...