Detroit Property Owners Have More Time to Appeal Proposed Assessments [Transcript]
Detroit residents were supposed to have from Feb.1-15 to appeal proposed assessments, but the city recently extended the deadline to...
MichMash Digs Into State of the State In Hour-Long Special
WDET Digital There will be a lot to unpack as soon as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer begins her first State of...
All The Donald’s Men: Watergate Reporters say Trump Era Demands Aggressive Journalism
Legendary reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein say the presidency of Donald Trump has distinct echoes of the Watergate scandal...
Does Suspension Prevent School Violence? New Study Says No
Laura Weber Davis/WDET Our automatic response to students who are violent in school is to suspend them. And that makes...
S&P Upgrades Detroit’s Credit. What Does It Mean?
Analysts at Standard and Poor’s are increasing Detroit's credit to BB-. That’s up a notch from the city's previous rating....
Remembering ‘The Dean’ John Dingell — A Giant of Congress, Twitter
WDET John D Dingell, the longest-serving congressman in history, died yesterday at age 92. Dingell was a fierce advocate for many issues...
Former Michigan Congressman John Dingell Has Died
Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely...
Book Says Our Political Divisions Started in a Specific Year — 1974
Princeton University If you had to name the year that America became so divided that liberal and conservative, black and...
People Still Plead Ignorance to Blackface Racism Despite Constant Reminders
The Atlantic We’ve heard about blackface, of all things, a lot lately. Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam, and the state’s attorney...
Trump’s Message of Bipartisanship Sounds Disingenuous to Michigan Dems in Congress
Cheyna Roth/MPRN On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union speech. The stem-winder focused primarily on...
Michael Smerconish: We’re Not As Divided As We’re Led to Believe
The Crofoot American politics feel as divided as ever in the Trump era. But is that really true? Are we...
What Motivates Billionaires to Run for President?
Anand Giridharadas We have one self-proclaimed billionaire in the White House, and at least two others who now say they...