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  • Community & Quality of Life
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Detroit Evening Report: Remembering Rosa Parks, plus local events

Sascha Raiyn December 30, 2025

News

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan addresses city employees on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • Secondary

Detroit Evening Report: Duggan reports $105 million budget surplus in final news conference

Jerome Vaughn December 24, 2025
WDET's Best Of 2025 playlist
  • In The Groove
  • Secondary

Best music of 2025 on WDET

WDET Staff December 12, 2025
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  • CultureShift
  • Environment

Is Michigan prepared to be a climate refuge?

Ryan Patrick Hooper January 4, 2023

In a not-so-distant future, it’s possible that places like Houston, Texas could have summers that feel more like Pakistan. It’s...

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Kevin McCarthy
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  • Politics, Government & Finance

McCarthy’s bid for speaker to continue, Trump urges support

Associated Press January 4, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to open the second day of the new Congress much like the first —...

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  • Culture & Music
  • CultureShift

How Bookie Stewart shaped Detroit’s music scene

Amanda LeClaire January 4, 2023

In a recent article for the Detroit Free Press, journalist Rob St. Mary writes that “if it wasn’t for the...

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13th Congressional District Shri Thanedar
  • Detroit Evening Report
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Detroit Evening Report: Detroit’s nearly 70-year streak of Black representation in Congress is about to end

Jerome Vaughn January 3, 2023

Shri Thanedar is set to begin his new job this week once he's sworn in as the Congressman for Michigan’s...

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Shri Thanedar in-studio at WDET-FM on Oct. 20, 2022.
  • Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

New podcast explores the lack of Black representation for Detroit in Congress, launched by Stephen Henderson

Detroit Today January 3, 2023

When the 118th U.S. Congress begins its session today, Rashida Tlaib and Shri Thanedar will begin their terms representing Detroit...

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  • News

Peters, Stabenow tout lower healthcare and prescription costs for Medicare recipients

Quinn Klinefelter January 3, 2023

Michigan’s U.S. senators are touting the benefits of Medicare price reforms approved by Congress, which take effect beginning this week....

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Mayor Jim Fouts
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Court rules against Mayor Fouts in latest budget spending fight with Warren City Council

Quinn Klinefelter January 3, 2023

Warren City Council may file a formal complaint with Michigan’s attorney general over funds spent by Mayor Jim Fouts. It’s...

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  • Community & Quality of Life
  • StoryCorps Detroit

Listen to WDET and StoryCorps’ One Small Step Special

Nate Bender January 3, 2023

Detroit's NPR Station 101.9 WDET and StoryCorps present One Small Step, an initiative bringing two community members with divergent viewpoints...

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  • Detroit Evening Report

Detroit Evening Report: Detroit artist Judy Bowman makes solo exhibition debut at MOCAD at age 70

Hernz Laguerre January 2, 2023

On this Detroit Evening Report, we’re sharing stories we’ve covered in 2022 that show how special the people and places...

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  • MichMash
  • Politics, Government & Finance

MichMash: Looking back on Michigan’s COVID-19 response and more stories from 2022

John Filbrandt January 2, 2023

 2022 may be in the rearview mirror, but COVID-19 isn't. To wrap up the year, Cheyna Roth and the...

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the crowd during inauguration ceremonies, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, outside the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich.
  • News
  • Politics, Government & Finance

Historic term begins in Michigan as Whitmer, others sworn in

Associated Press January 2, 2023

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sworn in for second term as the state’s 49th governor on Sunday, pushing...

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  • News

Barbara Walters, dead at 93, was cultural fixture, TV icon

Associated Press December 31, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century,...

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