Current and Former Secretaries of State Talk Transparency To Kick Off Sunshine Week

Wayne State University Current Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is pursuing major transparency reforms, including an effort to make sure all money in politics...

MichMash: Road Funding Debate Complicated by Urban-Rural Divide

WDET Digital The road funding debate is in full swing at the state Capitol. As part of the weekly series...

State’s Richest County Just Created Universal Free Breakfast Program

Gus Navarro/WDET The richest county in Michigan is doing something unprecedented for its low-income residents -- as well as many...

How Concerned Should We Really Be About Our Data and Privacy Online?

Jake Neher/WDET Technology makes our lives a lot easier and faster. The phones that are constantly in our hands, for instance, are...

A Detroit Woman is Teaching People in Brooklyn How to Buy Real Estate in Detroit

Asia Denson stands in front of a group of people in a conference room at a Hilton Hotel in Brooklyn,...

Duggan Tries to Make Case City’s Comeback Equitable, Reaching Neighborhoods

Jake Neher/WDET Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan gave his sixth State of the City speech on Tuesday. Duggan, as he does...

‘Documenters’ Project Launches New Round of Training for Residents Covering Local Meetings

Tafari Stevenson-Howard WDET, Outlier Media, Citizen Detroit, and City Bureau have been teaming up for several months to help Detroiters attend and document public meetings. ...

Are Michiganders Willing to Shoulder a 45-cent Gas Tax Increase for Better Roads?

Jake Neher/WDET Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking lawmakers to approve a big gas tax increase to fix the roads -- 45 cents...

Michigan’s Options for Fixing the Damn Roads

Joan Isabella/WDET Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will lay out her first budget proposal this week. We expect it will explain in more...

What Is the Lake Erie Bill of Rights?

It's been almost five years since toxic algae polluted Toledo's water supply. Despite efforts to reduce phosphorus and other pollution...

MichMash: Marijuana Could Once Again Be On Your Ballot in 2019

WDET Digital Recreational marijuana is now legal in Michigan. But some Michigan voters aren’t done casting ballots on cannabis issues....

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 [AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT]

WDET recently aired a story about the Michigan Polar Bears — a group of soldiers who trained in Battle Creek and...