Lawmakers In Trouble: What Happens When Constituents Go Without Representation?
Jake Neher/WDET State Sen. Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) is in jail for shooting his ex-wife’s car last May. He submitted his resignation...
Pontiac’s Post-Emergency Management Board Relinquishes Some Powers to Mayor, City Council
Pontiac is slowly regaining control of its local government. The city’s mayor and city council will regain some authority previously...
Water Shutoffs Still Plague Detroit
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Michigan has made international news on a few occasions over controversies surrounding one of the most basic necessity...
Group Revives Effort to Overturn Emergency Manager Law in Court
Emmanuel Huybrechts It’s been more than three years since lawmakers and Governor Rick Snyder approved a beefed-up emergency manager law for...
U.S. Attorney Talks Charges in DPS Kickback Scheme
Alan Alfaro/Creative Commons This week, 13 Detroit Public Schools administrators and a supplies vendor were charged with bribery in a...
The Intersection: What Does It Mean to Have Power?
Dorret, Flickr As part of WDET’s series examining the 1967 Kerner Report with the Detroit Journalism Cooperative this year, Detroit Today...
African-American Political Power in Michigan [CHARTS]
In the wake of violence in Newark and Detroit during July 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson charged his Commission on...
Is There a Student Debt Crisis?
Flickr For several years now we've been hearing about a ballooning of student loan debt in America that's crushing young...
Sen. Gary Peters Talks About the Political Culture in Washington D.C.
Photo Courtesy of the Office of Gary Peters Detroit Today Host Stephen Henderson speaks with Michigan senator Gary Peters about...
Skillman CEO: Kids in Detroit Deserve the Best the State has to Offer
DucDigital/Creative Commons Earlier this week Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen came on Detroit Today to discuss controversial legislation working its...
Skillman CEO: Michigan Legislators Negotiating Future of DPS are “Worst of the Worst”
Pixabay.com "Right now we have the worst of the worst who are serving as our state legislators.” Yesterday we caught the...
What is the American Dream?
flickr What do you think is the American Dream? Is that dream possible? Does any and everyone have access to making...