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What’s In A Word? How ‘Sex’ Could Reshape LGBTQ Rights in Michigan

Cheyna Roth, Jake Neher July 28, 2017

Bre'Anna Tinsley/WDET Issues affecting the LGBTQ community have made statewide and national news this week. President Trump tweeted about his...

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Box Elder Bug
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Are These Bugs Pestering You?

Amy Miller July 28, 2017

Winter weather conditions helped produce an abundance of Box Elder Bugs in Southeast Michigan. The beetle-like bugs have a black...

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Head Start
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Head Start Programs Looking for Staff

Amy Miller July 28, 2017

Detroit’s largest early childhood learning program is looking for help. The Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan and Head Start plan...

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Brown Recluse Spider
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Brown Recluse Spider Spins its Web Throughout Most Southeast Michigan Counties

Amy Miller July 28, 2017

News of a nasty arachnid  that’s made its way to Michigan is prompting hundreds of residents to send pictures of...

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Brightmoor 1
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Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood Struggled With Ripples of July 1967

WDET News July 28, 2017

Editor's note: John Notarianni wrote and produced this report for WDET. It aired in 2007. During Detroit's civil unrest in...

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Trump Official Pledges Tax Relief, Health Care Help for Small Business Owners

Quinn Klinefelter July 27, 2017

sba.gov Congress continues to grapple with health care reform. But another item on the GOP agenda is still awaiting attention....

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Water Shutoffs A Public Health Crisis?

Bre'Anna Tinsley July 26, 2017

Quinn Klinefelter/WDET A panel of health professionals and civil rights activists says the water shutoffs in Detroit are creating a...

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LGBTQ Activists Call for Clarity in State’s Civil Rights Law

Cheyna Roth July 26, 2017

Bre'Anna Tinsley/WDET LGBT activists say the state’s civil rights law is too vague when it comes to discrimination based on...

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JL Fist
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Before 1967, Black Nationalism Was Taking Root in Detroit

WDET News July 26, 2017

Editor's note: Nkenge Zola produced this report for WDET. It aired in 1997. When Detroit police raided an after-hours night...

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The Line 5 pipeline carries petroleum products 645 miles from Wisconsin to Ontario in two pipes that sit in the water along the lake bed.
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FLOW Calls Analysis of the Line 5 Pipeline ‘Unreliable’

Bre'Anna Tinsley July 25, 2017

Pat Batcheller A Great Lakes advocacy organization is criticizing a report on possible alternatives to using Enbridge Energy's ‘Line 5’...

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Schuette Charges 11 with Faking Records in Veterans Neglect Scandal

Rick Pluta July 25, 2017

WDET Eleven former employees of the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans have been charged with felonies for falsifying reports to...

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Was Civil Unrest in 1967 Detroit a Riot or a Rebellion?

Quinn Klinefelter July 25, 2017

Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET Some Detroiters say the uprising of 1967 was more than wanton lawlessness. They say it was a backlash against...

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