The Intersection: Impact of School Choice in Michigan

Alan Alfaro/Creative Commons Metro Detroit students are attending increasingly segregated schools and districts, and Michigan’s School Choice law has allowed...

Senate Set to Vote on Infrastructure Funds for Flint

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a wide-ranging water infrastructure package that includes funding to help Flint....

The Intersection: How Education Was an Issue in 1967…and Remains One Today

DucDigital/Creative Commons Education and issues surrounding it. The history of desegregation (and busing) in southeast Michigan. What lawmakers are (not)...

Moving to Canada? You’re Not on Your Own

The divisiveness of this presidential election season has led some Americans to say that if the candidate they support is...

Study Says Philanthropy Adds Billions of Dollars to Metro Detroit’s Economy

A new study says philanthropy has had an almost $3 billion impact on Metro Detroit’s economy over the last nine...

Will Windsor Become a Weed Empire?

higherlimits.buzz Experts agree by roughly this same time next year marijuana will be legal throughout the entire nation of Canada...

Implications of the Attica Prison Uprising: A Conversation with “Blood in the Water” Author Heather Thompson

Blood in the Water: Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 Heather Thompson is an award winning historian at the University of...

Comedian & Actor Hannibal Buress Talks Sports, Video Games, Hip-Hop & Stoicism

Hannibal Buress "Calvin Johnson would rather do ballroom dancing than play for the Detroit Lions" - Hannibal Buress Hannibal Buress...

Jack White Talks New “Acoustic Recordings” Album with NPR

Jack White Dig it: Detroit music icon Jack White, he of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather  and the proprietor of Third...

The Trees Are Speaking at TOTEMS Riverfront Arts Festival

T O T E M S Arts Festival Facebook On Sunday, September 18, the T O T E M S...

Appealing to Voters of Color Earnestly

Jake Neher/WDET What would it look like if presidential candidates made earnest appeals to voters of color? When Donald Trump...

Lawsuit Claims State Shorting Locals By Billions

Jake Neher/WDET Michigan has been short-changing cities, towns, and counties four billion dollars a year. That’s according to a new...