Was Amazon Bid The Right Use of Time for Detroit?

Jake Neher/WDET Detroit will not be home to Amazon’s second North American Headquarters. The internet retail giant yesterday released its...

Fetal Tissue Research Stopped As University Probes MI Connection

The University of New Mexico has suspended its fetal tissue research after reports a researcher transferred the tissue to a...

Michigan School Dashboard Seeks to Solve Huge Problem for Parents

Jake Neher/WDET Michigan parents have long struggled to evaluate and compare public schools in a data-based way. More often than...

State Launches New Tool for School Transparency

Michigan Department of Education Michigan parents now have a new tool to vet their child’s school. The state launched the...

Former Marygrove Undergraduates Find Paths to Graduation at Other Universities

WDET/Laura Herberg This past summer, Emily Hill was getting ready to start her junior year at Marygrove College. She had...

School Closings for Friday, Jan. 4, 2018

Wayne County: Grosse Pointe Harper Woods Oakland County: Berkley Birmingham Brandon Clawson Farmington  Ferndale Holly Lake Orion Rochester Royal Oak...

Marygrove Starts Winter Semester Without Undergraduate Offerings

Marygrove College in Detroit is now officially open only to graduate students.  The college announced in August it would focus...

WSU Word Warriors Compile List of Couth, Recondite Words

Compiling a list can seem like a task that's impossible to overcome. There's a word for that feeling: "insuprable." It's...

Banished Word List Has Tons of Impactful Entries

Lake Superior State University just released it's annual list of "banished" words and phrases. This year, there's a lot to...

POLITICO Magazine’s Tim Alberta on Being A Political Reporter Through First Year of Trump

POLITICO POLITICO Magazine feature reporter Tim Alberta covers national politics in Washington. In that role, he had the first lengthy...

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade Talks About Life-Changing 2017

Jake Neher/WDET 2017 has been an interesting year -- and there are several people from Michigan who have had standout...

State Supreme Court Gives Back $550 Million

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled the state must repay more than $550 million collected from school employees. Governor Jennifer...