Jeb Bush Brings Presidential Campaign Back to Michigan

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush visits Michigan this week and is set to host a town hall meeting. Bush is...

Response Times: If You Don’t Like The Numbers, Change the Definition

JJ/Creative Commons As part of WDET’s new series - Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later - Sandra Svoboda spoke with Bridge...

Stephen Henderson Finds Childhood Home Gutted in Detroit

Courtney Hurtt/ WDET If you picked up The Detroit Free Press this weekend you saw a long and stirring column...

Missouri President Resigns: Will Race Relation Improve on Campus?

Mitch Bennett   Over the weekend a group of black football players from University of Missouri said they would refuse...

Report: State Officials Aware of Problem with Flint River Water

State officials reportedly knew of problems with Flint’s water supply long before the city switched to a new system that...

The Detroit Today Conversation about “Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later”

  The Detroit Bankruptcy ruling is a year old, and WDET’s News Director Jerome Vaughn and Special Assignment Manager Sandra...

Kalamazoo Promise Turns Ten

DucDigital/Creative Commons The Kalamazoo Promise celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. The Promise pays in-state college tuition for all kids...

Ben Carson’s Inconsistencies in His Autobiography

Gage Skidmore / Flickr   It was a strange weekend for Republican presidential candidate and Detroit native Ben Carson. Late...

Detroit’s Finances [CHARTS]

The Story of Detroit’s Bankruptcy: A “Takeover” or an Inevitable Financial Crisis?

Detroit is approaching its one-year anniversary of emerging from the nation’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy, and the city has changed. Perhaps...

City’s Finances, Leadership Culture Changed by Bankruptcy

Irvin Corley Jr. spent the past half-century providing an independent analysis of Detroit’s finances for the City Council. Quinn Klinefelter...

Picking It Up: Changes to Detroit’s Trash and Snow Removal

Throughout the bankruptcy proceedings, cuts to city pensions and threats to the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection ruled the headlines....