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Detroit's Community Benefits Ordinance Yields Hours of Dialogue and Almost No Community Benefits

Detroiters voted to put a Community Benefits Ordinance on the books. One year later, what happened and has it worked?

03-19
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Voter Guide: What are the Issues for Residents of Dearborn?

Dearborn residents considering local issues and national attention in deciding how to vote, reporter says.

10-26
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CuriosiD: How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?

A 14-year-old listener from Northville learns how faith and family helped shape one of Detroit’s best-known communities.

08-08
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CuriosiD: Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal

Cass Avenue, Cass Technical High School, Cassopolis - they're all named in honor of this guy.

06-27
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Home on the Range: Audio Profile

Hear stories about family, responsibility and human connection with the natural world through this audio-visual series.

04-26
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Author Peter Markus Talks New Book on Teaching Poetry in Detroit Schools

Markus' new nonfiction novel Inside My Pencil chronicles a "magical" year in a second grade classroom.

04-11
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CuriosiD: What's That Smell?

Ever caught wind of a pervasive garbage smell in Midtown with no Dumpsters in sight? WDET goes to the source.

04-10
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CuriosiD: What Happens to the Stuff I Recycle?

Kim Hunter wants to know how his curbside recycling gets sorted and what happens to the money.

10-03
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The End of the World's Largest Stove

Listen to the most recent short episode of WDET's podcast The Beginning of the End.

08-16
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CuriosiD: Who Chooses Detroit's "Tax-Free" Renaissance Zones?

Listener Paul wants to know - who chooses Detroit's Renaissance Zones and what criteria do they use?

08-11
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CuriosiD: What's Up With All These Pheasants?

Listener Jenni wants to know how pheasants can survive in Detroit and where they came from. And we go on a hunt for one.

06-06
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The Detroit Origins of Atomic Bomb "Little Boy"

Two out of the three locations to manufacture the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima were in metro Detroit.

05-28
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CuriosiD: Why is Detroit Auto Insurance SO Expensive?

This week's CuriosiD tackles the question any Detroiter is asking - why is my auto insurance so expensive?

09-21
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04. The End of High School

Five high school seniors chronicle their last four months at Cass Tech in Detroit.

08-06
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CuriosiD: Do You Pronounce the Road Lahser or Lasher?

WDET investigates the confusion behind just how we should be saying and spelling Lahser Road.

07-27
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CuriosiD: Former Tenant of this Man's Apartment Reformed the Auto Industry

Listener Josh Wilt's asks, "What was the history of Norton Company located in Woodbridge?"

07-10
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