DDOT is Asking the Community for Input

Bre'Anna Tinsley/ WDET The Detroit Department of Transportation is asking frequent riders what changes in they would like to see...

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]

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....