MichMash: Are You Cool With Just 20 Percent of Eligible Voters Deciding Who Represents You?
WDET Digital Monday, July 9 is the last day to register to vote for Michigan’s August primary elections. Voters will decide...
MichMash: Are You Cool With Just 20 Percent of Eligible Voters Deciding Who Represents You?
WDET Digital Monday, July 9 is the last day to register to vote for Michigan’s August primary elections. Voters will decide...
Got Questions for the Candidates for Governor? Ask them here!
WDET and our media partners will ask an hour's worth of questions of candidates for governor and share their answers...
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s New Book Explores Monuments, Race
Note: This conversation first aired on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson on April 6, 2018. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu...
Billionaire Tom Steyer Talks About Putting Millions of Dollars Into Impeaching Trump
Laura Weber Davis/WDET Note: This conversation first aired on Detroit Today on March 20, 2018. If you watch cable news...
MichMash: Here’s How You Can Influence The Drawing of District Lines in Michigan
WDET Digital Big changes could be on the horizon for the way Michigan draws its congressional and legislative lines. There's...
Gerrymandering: Why It’s a Technology Issue [TRANSCRIPT]
Common Cause It doesn't matter which political party is in control of state legislatures across the country. If politicians are...
Was Racism Involved in the Drawing of Michigan’s Congressional Districts?
Graphic by Melissa Mason Critics argue that Republicans drew the legislative districts of Michigan with the intention of winning the majority...
Bridge Magazine: Regional Transit Dead This Year [TRANSCRIPT]
Voters in southeast Michigan will not see a transit proposal on the ballot this fall after a meeting today ended...
Ohio Offers Its Own Solution to Gerrymandering [MAPS + GRAPHS]
Michigan voters could decide whether to change the way the state’s political maps are drawn. A state elections board voted...
LIVE STREAM: Policy Meets the People – The Redistricting Issue Special [VIDEO]
Should Michigan redraw its voting districts? And what should the process be to do that? Can the state ever have...
Redistricting 101: Your District, Your Politicians, But Does Your Vote Matter?
An Introduction to Redistricting: Voters elect someone to represent them in Congress and the state Legislature. That individual represents a...
Does Michigan Have a District that Looks Like Homer Simpson? You Be the Judge
Public Back in 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry approved a voting map that had one district carefully drawn to favor...