Knight Foundation Gives a $2.5 Million Boost to Detroit’s Small Businesses
The Knight Foundation is giving $2.5 million to help support small businesses in Detroit. The grant, which was converted from a loan...
UAW Ratifies New Contract With Fiat Chrysler, Sets Sights on GM
The United Auto Workers’ rank-and-file has ratified a new four-year contract with Fiat Chrysler. More than three-quarters of the UAW...
Homeless Detroiters Get Backpacks Designed For Life On The Streets
Thousands of Detroit’s homeless are getting backpacks made specifically for those living on the streets . The effort is part...
Five Detroit Businesses Spotlighted on “Start-Up”
Host Stephen Henderson talks with Jenny Feterovich and Gary Bredow of the PBS show "Start Up." Detroit: “Start Up”...
On Point’s Tom Ashbrook: “Show Offers News and Obsurity”
Stephen Henderson speaks with Tom Ashbrook, host of the NPR program On Point. Ashbrook says he spent many years in...
EPA Facing Trouble Over Clean Water Act and Ballast Water Permits
Conservation organizations are celebrating a huge win. The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency failed...
Strike Looming for the United Auto Workers
The United Auto Workers are threatening a strike against Fiat Chrysler if a deal isn’t reached between the automaker and...
Is Binge Drinking on Campuses Out of Control?
A University of Michigan student died over the summer after falling from a parking deck, and through a glass enclosure....
Knight Cities Challenge
The Knight Cities Challenge awards grants to local activists for a chance to make their vision of a better community...
How We Balance Freedom and Safety in a Pro-Gun Society
Yet another mass killing last week has attention focused again on gun control. What’s reasonable? What’s doable? What will work?...
GM Could Stand for ‘General Mobility’ Someday
General Motors says it plans to make a big splash in the self-driving automobile and ride-sharing markets. To pay for...
FCA, GM, Ford See Big Increase in Sales
Laitr Keiows/CC The Big Three U.S. automakers Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler are seeing big increases in sales for...