Weed Shop Laws Go Up in Smoke, But Supporters Say Relax

WDET Digital Last week's elections didn't have a lot of blockbuster races or questions that dominated headlines in Michigan. But...

Want One of FCA’s 5,000 Promised Jobs? Get in Line

Detroit is getting its first new auto assembly plant in nearly 30 years as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles updates a current plant...

Biden and Harris, Bruised During Debate, take Campaigns to Detroit Streets

Former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, among the frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination in many...

Detroit Political Junkies Recap and React to This Week’s Presidential Debates

Jake Neher/WDET The second Democratic presidential debate has come and gone. There was talk of important policy changes, there was...

Cory Booker Ahead of Detroit Debates: “Next Leader of This Country Must Be One Who Can Heal”

senate.gov As we get closer to the second round of Democratic debates — which will take place right here in...

NAACP Plots Plan of Attack to Defeat ‘Racist’ Trump

It's a morning session at the NAACP Convention, and a series of speakers are pushing unity. And though this group...

Detroit’s East Side is Already Polluted. Will Fiat Chrysler Make It Worse?

When Amoni Pitts hears trucks working one street over from where she lives, she worries about being able to breathe....

Gov. Whitmer On First Six Months: Legislature Took a Break “Before the Work was Done”

Jake Neher/WDET The first half of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first year in office has passed, and there’s been a lot of...

Malcolm Gladwell on New Season of Revisionist History Podcast

Revisionist History/iTunes Malcolm Gladwell has made a career of making us think twice by taking what we think is true and...

Walking Beniteau Street in the Prelude to Fiat Chrysler’s Plant Expansion

Laura Herberg/WDET Walking down the sidewalk of Beniteau Street on Detroit’s eastside with a shotgun microphone covered in a fuzzy...

Are You a Gentrifier? Confronting the Hard Questions of Detroit’s Most Controversial Concept

Gus Navarro/WDET We’ve all heard the word gentrification before, and we think we know the definition. It's the process of...

Oakland County Removes Question About Criminal Record From Job Applications

Starting Aug. 1, Oakland County will no longer ask most job applicants whether they've ever been arrested or convicted of a...