Tax Foreclosures Make National Headlines As Wayne County Prepares To Foreclose on 70-thousand homes

Today (Tues) is the last day for Wayne County homeowners at risk of losing their homes due to unpaid back...

Thousands Rush To Meet Foreclosure Deadline

   In Detroit tens of thousands of people are facing a deadline today that could cost some of them their...

Feds Return Control Of Housing Commission To Detroit

   The US Housing and Urban Development Department is preparing to return control of the Detroit Housing Commission to city...

Free Press Editor Reflects On Paper’s Digital Evolution

The Detroit Free Press has broken some big news stories during Paul Anger’s time as editor and publisher. They include...

Pastors and Community Organize “March For Justice 2015”

A group of Detroit pastors and community members are coming together to hold a “March for Justice” Saturday.  The event...

State House Ties Welfare Benefits to School Attendance

Pkay Chelle/Creative Commons Michigan Public Radio's Jake Neher reports: “The state House has approved a bill that would end welfare...

Proposal 1: It’s Not Just About The Roads

WDET Joan Isabella Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson writes: "There are a lot of opinions these days about the ballot proposal...

Personal Stories Of Wayne County’s Foreclosure Crisis

Roughly 76-thousand homes in Wayne County are at risk of tax foreclosure.  As the deadline to pay back taxes approaches...

Wayne County Leads Nation In Population Loss

   Newly-released Census data reveals that more people left Wayne County last year than in moved out of any other...

Flint to Discuss the City Post Emergency Manager

Flintmichigan/ CC Flint officials are scheduling a public meeting to discuss the future of the city after its emergency manager...

Up Down Up Down Up Down: Detroit, County Populations in Motion Since 1940 [Motion Graphic]

Press “play” and watch how the populations in Detroit and Wayne County decline while Oakland and Macomb counties gain population. This...

Tavis Smiley Comes To Detroit To Examine City’s Resurgence

Tavis Smiley is back in Detroit this week.  The PBS television host is recording several interviews at Wayne State University...