Tornado Outbreak on April 11, 1965 Kills Hundreds in Midwest
Paul Huffmann, NOAA On April 11, 1965, 47 tornadoes descended on the Midwest, leaving 271 dead and more than 3,400...
What’s The Future of the Middle Class in America?
Jake Neher/WDET We've been hearing reports for several years now about the slow erosion of a Middle Class in America. That...
Author Peter Markus Talks New Book on Teaching Poetry in Detroit Schools
Courtesy of Peter Markus Author Peter Markus has spent the last two decades as an Artist in Residence with InsideOut...
U.S. Auto Workers Face Competition from Other Nations and New Technology
Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET President Trump has repeatedly pledged to bring outsourced auto jobs back to the U.S. and make Michigan the...
Summer Starts Early for Red Wings
The last time the Detroit Red Wings missed the National Hockey League playoffs was 1990. Coleman Young was the city's mayor....
Detroit Gets New Election Equipment
Detroit is getting new ballot-counting machines in time for the August primary: 700 new tabulators from the state. The tabulators...
Detroit ID Enrollment Pop-up Thursday
Bre'Anna Tinsley/ WDET A pop-up enrollment site for the Detroit’s municipal identification system is coming to Lasky Recreation Center on...
The Curious Case of the Detroit Kangaroo
"Darwin is the star, not me. I was just walking him down the street for a birthday party." Javon Stacks,...
Local Experts Weigh In on Syrian Conflict and Balance of World Power
J. Carlisle Larsen The civil war in Syria is six years old, and there’s no end in sight. Last week...
What’s the Post-‘Nuclear’ Future of the U.S. Senate?
Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted last week to end the 60-vote threshold to approve...
CuriosiD: What’s That Smell?
In this episode of CuriosiD, listener Trisha Dring asks ... What's up with the Detroit incinerator? Where is it, what's...
The Progressive Underground Show 209 feat. GOAPELE & MONICA BLAIRE
Reuters On tonight's The Progressive Underground, we have interviews with R & B soul chanteuse Goapele and peer into her...