Watch Dan Campbell’s epic speech about Detroit as a sports town now that Lions are good Dan Campbell delivered an epic speech Thursday about how Detroit was a “sleeping giant” as a sports town even before the Lions were good. 01/16/2025 - 5:47 am | View Link
Regulators say Detroit SO2 pollution under control after years of exceeding federal standards Following power plant closures and EPA intervention, Detroit and Downriver are seeing lower levels of SO2 pollution. One advocate calls attention to the slow pace of change and ongoing air pollution. 01/16/2025 - 4:55 am | View Link
CuriosiD: What’s the Oldest Bar in Detroit? In this episode of “CuriosiD,” WDET's Ryan Patrick Hooper goes on a quest to find the oldest bar in the city with the help of bar historian Mickey Lyons. 01/16/2025 - 4:49 am | View Link
New Park Space Planned Over I-75 in Downtown Detroit Moves to Final Design Stage The I-75 Cap Design Engineering Project has received $2 million in funding to continue the next phase of the project as it moves to final design, enabling it to become shovel-ready. 01/16/2025 - 4:37 am | View Link
Detroit Secures Federal Grants to Build Bridges, Connect Communities with Joe Louis Greenway Detroit has been awarded $12.5 million in federal grants to support the construction and design of the Joe Louis Greenway, a transformative 30-mile regional pathway that will connect 23 Detroit ... 01/16/2025 - 2:07 am | View Link
By KATE PAYNE and STEPHANY MATAT, Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U. S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.
Elected as the state’s top law enforcement officer in 2018, Moody campaigned on a pledge to voters that she’d be a prosecutor, not a politician.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are set to question Scott Bessent’s stance on taxes, tariffs, trade and other issues during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
The treasury secretary is responsible for serving as the president’s fiscal policy adviser and managing the public debt. He would also be a member of the president’s National Economic Council.
If confirmed, Bessent will oversee massive agencies within the Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service.
In June, the writer Lore Segal, who had started hospice at her home in Manhattan, sent an email to her friends. “I am not sad or angry or afraid,” she wrote, according to a lovely profile in the New York Times Magazine. “Why aren’t I? It seems that having had a good 96 years will do very well.”
Starting in June 2023, I edited a weekly obituary newsletter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started.
A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, Bérrios had been in the U.
New Hurricanes defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman will have the opportunity to mold his defensive staff to meet his ideas now that several assistant coaching positions have opened.
Three defensive position coaches have left since Miami fired defensive coordinator Lance Guidry on New Year’s Eve. Defensive line coach Joe Salave’a took a similar position at his alma mater, Arizona, the team announced.
Cornerbacks coach Chevis Jackson is going to Wake Forest to coach defensive backs, according to a report from 247Sports.
Doug Burgum, Interior Department The former governor of North Dakota and businessman appears before members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who will consider his nomination as interior secretary, the chief steward of U. S. public lands.
Burgum, who endorsed Trump after ending his own 2024 presidential bid and campaigned for Trump, has also been tapped to lead the National Energy Council.