Governor Snyder: DPS Needs An Overhaul

Marissa Gawel/WDET Governor Rick Snyder is asking the Legislature to take bills on Detroit schools overhaul, including creating a new...

Skillman Foundation Responds to Governor Snyder’s Plan for DPS Debt

Stephen Henderson speaks with Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren co-chair and Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen for a response...

An update on the Michigan Legistlature

Host Stephen Henderson talks with legislative reporter for Michigan Public Radio Jake Neher about the plans Michigan’s legislature has for...

How Easy is it to Teach Reading?

Host Stephen Henderson talks with callers about the state’s new legislation to help Detroit’s public schools.   Standards: Brad Biladeau,...

Michigan Passes A New Reading Requirement for Third Graders

Host Stephen Henderson talks with Jennifer Lewis, Assistant Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at Wayne State University, about...

CuriosiD: How A 1900s Black Detroit Community Was Razed For A Freeway

This week’s installment of CuriosiD investigates a question from listener Peter Pasque of Ann Arbor. “A good friend of mine...

Star of Hitchcock Film ‘The Birds’ had to Fend Off Fowl, Director

Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Halloween is creeping ever closer -- and bringing with it a slew of creepy movies. Halloween is creeping...

Canada Votes: A Look at Monday’s Federal Election.

Monday is Election Day in Canada, where voters are deciding who should lead the country’s 42nd Parliament. The Conservative Party, led by...

The Progressive Underground Show 145

Om'Mas Keith On this episode of The Progressive Underground we bump tracks from the Renegades of Jazz, Om'Mas Keith (pictured), Jessica...

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: 10-17-15

This week on RREM, two amazing new soul voices (Liz Vice and Seinabo Sey), plus John Grant, City & Colour,...

Jill Biden Returns to Detroit as Hubby Joe Biden Weighs Run for the White House

The wife of Vice President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, returns to Metro Detroit next week for her second visit...

Author, Kim Harrison, talks about her latest novel, set in 2030 Detroit

Host Stephen Henderson talks with Author Kim Harrison about her new book, “The Drafter,” set in a 2030 Detroit.  ...