The Metro: What Detroit’s next mayor should run on
For the first time since he won the role 12 years ago, Mayor Mike Duggan will not be on the...
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The Metro: What Detroit’s next mayor should run on
For the first time since he won the role 12 years ago, Mayor Mike Duggan will not be on the...
The Metro: US Rep. Haley Stevens on why she’s running for Senate
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens launched her U.S. Senate campaign on Tuesday — joining a growing crowd of candidates vying for...
The Metro: Detroit Pistons’ journey from the league’s worst team to the playoffs
The Detroit Pistons have local sports fans buzzing going into Game 3 of the team's first-round series against the New...
The Metro: What’s behind Dearborn’s drastic drop in fatal overdoses?
Overdose deaths have been falling nationally, statewide and now locally. Last year, at the national level, these kinds of deaths...
The Metro: Demystifying and fighting misinformation about autism and those who have it
Many have criticized U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent weeks for making sweeping claims about the cause...
The Metro: Detroit Fashion Revolution Week aims to reshape industry toward sustainability
The world of fashion is under pressure. Sales have slowed in recent years. People are spending less on clothes due...
The Metro: How children’s education impacts parental dementia risk
Dementia affects more than six million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health, accounting for more than 100,000 deaths...
The Metro: Michigan ends mandatory life sentences for 19 and 20-year-olds convicted of murder
America delivers harsher criminal punishments than almost any other country. That harshness can be seen in our prison sentences, which...
The Metro: Detroit Public Library is ready to help in many ways
If you go to the library to borrow a book, you are just scratching the surface of all the tools...
The Metro: Enjoy ‘Art in the Trees’ at Palmer Park in celebration of Earth Day
The city of Detroit has a lot of concrete streets, slabs of road and old industrial buildings. But green spaces...
The Metro: WDET is ‘rooting’ itself in local environmental reporting with tree canopy project
WDET is embarking on a new project exploring the multifaceted relationship between trees and community health in Michigan. Amanda Le...
The Metro: Detroit’s Pope Francis Center leader reflects on late pontiff’s legacy
Caring for the poor and having mercy for the marginalized were values that played a central role in Pope Francis’...