A Number of Ballot Proposals Get Green Light to Collect Signatures
Jake Neher/WDET Several ballot proposals for Michigan’s 2018 election crossed a hurdle Thursday. The Board of State Canvassers approved the...
How Do We As a Community Move Forward After Racial Violence and Rhetoric?
Sandra Svoboda/WDET WDET and Detroit Today has spent time this summer looking back 50 years in Detroit and talked to one...
Hearings Begin to Compensate Wrongly-Convicted Inmates
Cheyna Roth/MPRN The first hearings to compensate people who were wrongfully convicted in Michigan began on Wednesday. Marwin McHenry is...
How Should We Deal With Monuments to Deeply Flawed Historical Figures?
Laura Weber Davis/WDET This conversation originally aired on Detroit Today on May 11, 2017. Early on Thursday morning, a statue...
StoryCorps Detroit Podcast: A Tale of Two Paper’s Opinions
Stephen Henderson is the editor of the liberal-leaning editorial page at the Detroit Free Press. Nolan Finley, on the other...
Trump Officials Draw Hard Line at Start of New NAFTA Talks
Jake Neher/WDET The Trump Administration is set to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. President Trump has said...
Civil Rights Attorney Announces Candidacy for State Attorney General
Cheyna Roth/MPRN Civil rights attorney Dana Nessel will run for state attorney general. Two years ago, Nessel stood in a...
Environmental Reporters Talk Great Lakes Issues [MAP]
Detroit Today is taking an environmental tour of the Great Lakes. Joining today's show to talk about issues of concern...
Detroit City Clerk Candidate Garlin Gilchrist II Answers Your Questions
Laura Weber Davis/WDET Detroit's race for city clerk is now down to two candidates. Voters in last week's primary election...
‘She Should Run’ Aims to Attract More Women to Public Office
Jake Neher/WDET The idea that we have representative democracy is beautiful in theory, rather than in reality. Our elected bodies...
State Board to Rule on Gerrymandering Ballot Proposal This Week
Jake Neher/WDET A grassroots group that wants to get an anti-gerrymandering proposal on the 2018 ballot is looking to make...
Should Virgil Smith Be Allowed to Run For Office, Even If He Agreed Not To?
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to bar former state Sen. Virgil Smith from running...