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...
Detroit Journos, Politicos Recap First Democratic Presidential Debate
Jake Neher/WDET The pool of Democratic candidates vying for a 2020 presidential run is big — so big in fact,...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Experts Talk Cost of Living in Detroit
Jake Neher/WDET Is it realistic to expect many more people to live, raise families, or open businesses here in the...
Detroit Vineyards Brings Locally-Sourced Wine Back to City
When you think about vineyards, maybe you picture the rolling hills of northern California’s wine country in Napa Valley, or...
Automotive Giant Bob Lutz Reflects On Industry 10 Years After Bankruptcies
Lutz Communications This month marks ten years since the historic bankruptcy of GM, which followed Chrysler's Chapter 11 filing earlier in 2009, and the...
Labor Leaders Tour Battleground States to Blast NAFTA Replacement
Jake Neher/WDET The head of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of unions, will travel to Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Metro...
Here’s Why Auto Insurance Companies Use Credit History to Set Rates
Rashida Tlaib for Congress Michigan consistently ranks as the state with the highest car insurance rates in the country, at almost 80...