Former Detroit Mayor Gribbs Dies
Former Detroit Mayor Roman Gribbs has died. He spent roughly half-a-century in public life, moving from roles as a prosecutor...
Detroit Water Director Says City Targeting Past-Due Business Owners
Recent published reports say the city of Detroit shut off water service to more than 20,000 residents behind on utility...
Who Will Win the Day in the Wisconsin Primary?
Flickr Today Wisconsin votes in its presidential primary elections. The Midwestern state has a lot in common politically with Michigan, often voting...
Water Officials Say They’re Boosting Efforts to Collect on Delinquent Commercial Water Accounts
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Yesterday on Detroit Today, host Stephen Henderson spoke with a Detroit News investigative reporter about water shutoffs that continue...
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...