Michigan Needs Frogs, Toads and They Need Your Help
As temperatures begin to warm up, critters that sleep through the Winter months begin to wake up. That includes 13...
City of Detroit Reaches Out to Residential Contractors
WDET/Laura Herberg About a hundred people were crammed into the lobby of the Patton Recreation Center in southwest Detroit last...
Netflix ‘Flint Town’ Series Explores Policing At Low Point in Public Trust
Flint Town/Netflix We may never really be able to wrap our minds around the full extent of the devastation caused...
Fairgrounds Development Coalition Says Enough is Enough
A group of neighbors around the Michigan State Fairgrounds at 8 Mile and Woodward are pushing Michigan Land Bank Fast...
Ben Carson’s Furniture Spree and What It Means for People Desperate for Help
Gage Skidmore / Flickr Poor and homeless Americans face a significant cut to programs that help them with housing and...
DTE Linemen Return from Puerto Rico Where They’ve Been Working to Restore Power
Jake Neher/WDET It's been five months since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. Still, to this day, hundreds of...
Snyder Signs Tax Cut, Says State Can Afford to Fix Roads and Cut Income Tax
Jake Neher/WDET Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation on Wednesday that ensures the personal exemption on state income taxes will not disappear...
The NCAA Scandal and the Corruptibility of Major Sports Organizations
John U Bacon Last week, the NCAA came under fire as an FBI investigation revealed several players throughout the country...
Is This The Worst Pothole Season We’ve Ever Seen?
Rick Pluta/MPRN Sometimes driving around Southeast Michigan in late winter or early spring, it’s tough to know whether you’re driving on...
Detroit Named Finalist in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Mayors Challenge
Sandra Svoboda Detroit is one of the 35 finalists for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge. Detroit beat out 320 applicants. The...
MLK Historian Talks King Legacy Beyond Civil Rights
Clayborne Carson/Stanford University April 4th this year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior....
100 Things to do in the Upper Penninsula…
As winter weather drags on, many people are feeling a bit of “cabin fever”. Spending too much time on the...