New Year’s Resolutions: How To Make This Year Different
Less meat and more yoga. Or less sugar, more sleep? Whatever your resolution is, good luck trying to stick to it all...
U.S. to Collect DNA of Detainees At Detroit Border, Raising Privacy Concerns
People taken into custody at Detroit’s border crossings are now subject to DNA sampling. Border agents are conducting cheek swabs...
Historic Detroit Cobbler Perseveres Despite Construction, Family Tragedy
For Detroiters, Livernois has historically been known as the Avenue of Fashion. It’s peppered with shops dedicated to getting suited...
Metro Detroit Reacts to ‘Green Ooze’ Contaminant With Humor, Concern
Laura Herberg/WDET Inside Hazel Park’s Max Dugan Saloon staffers are trying to make the best of a toxic situation. “We...
Ten Years Into Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Is A Defining Issue in 2020
Public option? Surprise medical bills? It's starting to feel a lot like 2009 again, when the nation was absorbed in a...
Michigan Cities Brace for Possible Recession in 2020
Local officials across Michigan are concerned about what a recession would mean for their communities. Nobody, including economists, can say...
Social Workers Push Back on Medicaid, SNAP Work Requirements
If you need Medicaid in Michigan, you’ll have to work… or get a waiver. New regulations pushed through by the...
“A Festivus For The Rest of Us!” Jason Alexander of Seinfeld Airs Grievances of 2019
From the petty to the profound, Festivus is all about honoring grievances big and small. Before jumping into the new...
Michigan Saw Impacts of Climate Change in 2019, Including Record Great Lakes Water Levels
The United Nations annual climate talks in Madrid, Spain ended with a general call for greater efforts to tackle climate...
How Feeding Yourself Is Freeing Yourself
Stephen Henderson speaks with Dr. Monica White, a Detroit native and author of the book “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black...
DTE Chief: “We Need To Do A Better Job Keeping Lights On”
With massive rolling blackouts sweeping through the state of California in recent months, Detroit Today turns its attention to energy infrastructure and...
A Flint Mom and a Journalist Describe How the Community Spoke Truth To Power
Melissa Mays is a Flint mother-turned-activist who says she and her children are suffering from illnesses caused by chemicals they ingested...
