Detroit Evening Report: Move Detroit Coalition launches programs to increase population
The Move Detroit coalition has launched two programs aimed at increasing the city’s population. The first is the Make Detroit Home...
Detroit Evening Report: MDHHS launches health screening for firefighters
The state health department is rolling out an effort to screen firefighters for health issues stemming from their line of...
The Metro: If ‘Detroit Never Left,’ who wrote the comeback story?
If you have lived in Detroit for a while, you’ve heard the city’s revival narrative. The magazines, the national news,...
When a water main break flooded Southwest Detroit, community put it back together
During a City Council meeting earlier this month, Councilwoman Gabriela Santiago-Romero critiqued the city’s response to last year’s devastating water...
Detroit Evening Report: Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84
The Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was 84 years old. Jackson joined the civil rights movement in the early 1960s and begam...
The Metro: Fear is the new recession. How immigration enforcement is affecting small businesses
Across the country, small businesses in immigrant communities are reporting the same pattern: customers are disappearing, workers aren't showing up,...
The Metro: Detroit residents honor detained loved ones
Immigration enforcement over the last year has become a lot more visible. Late last year, four Detroit students and their...
The Metro: Santiago-Romero presses Detroit to define limits on ICE activity
During President Trump’s second term, immigration enforcement has become more dangerous and more visible. Detention has expanded rapidly. Last year...
The Metro: Truck routes enforced in Southwest, residents call for citywide ordinance
The city has started enforcing new truck routes in Southwest Detroit this week. For many years, residents have been blowing...
Detroit Evening Report: Whitmer urges Trump to reconsider new H1B visa cost
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she shared her concerns with President Trump about his new H1B visa policy which makes...
The Metro: Detroit plans to reroute trucks away from residential neighborhoods
In Southwest Detroit, 18-wheeled vehicles frequently rumble through streets that aren’t made for them. Heavy truck traffic has been more...
CuriosiD: What happened to the Chamberlain Bakery in Southwest Detroit?
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode of CuriosiD, listener Martha...