Record Store Day 2024! (wdet.org)
Music lovers — especially those who collect vinyl records — are anticipating another eventful Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20....
Will Michigan offer free tuition to community college students? (wdet.org)
From the podcast…...
Enter the 2024 WDET Pet Photo Contest (wdet.org)
Isn’t this what the internet was invented for?!...
Detroit's Movement festival celebrates techno music’s history, progression (wdet.org)
WDET 101.9’s https://wdet.org/author/the-metro/ hosts Tia Graham and Nick Austin talk with Movement Festival director, Jason Huvaere, about what to expect this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, organizing an event of this size and where you can pick up your ecstasy and glowsticks in the city where techno—like “The Motown...
Detroit on track for fewest homicides in more than 50 years (wdet.org)
“Murder City” no more…well, almost…...
Hydrogen represents an option to electrify the trucking industry (wdet.org)
The trucking industry is investing in hydrogen technology to fuel the next generation of semis, but Michigan currently lacks the infrastructure to support them.
Detroit Today: Legislation in Lansing aims to bring back solar net metering - WDET 101.9 FM (wdet.org)
This is an audio interview with the State Senator who sponsored the bill, Jeff Irwin.
Michigan DNR planning trolley or bus on Belle Isle (wdet.org)
The transportation service has been in the works for a few years and it’s “finally coming to fruition.” It would initially run Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 8 p.m. […] The service is expected to start in early July after the Grand Prix wraps up on the island. Scott Pratt says the original vision was that the...
Report highlights obstacles and suggests solutions to Black homeownership in Detroit (wdet.org)
Anika Goss says Black Detroiters are denied mortgages at rates that are much higher than their white peers. “For the upper income [bracket], African Americans were still denied at a rate of 23 percent as opposed to white borrowers that were being denied at a rate of 10 percent. And so, there is something in the system that is...
