Sarah Cwiek
Detroit Reporter/ProducerSarah Cwiek joined Michigan Public in October 2009. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit.
Before her arrival at Michigan Public, Sarah worked at WDET-FM as a reporter and producer.
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Wayne State researchers said this will be one of the very first randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials using cannabis. -
Detroit has 11 consecutive years of balanced budgets since it exited bankruptcy in 2014. The surplus for the latest fiscal year is $105 million, and the city has almost $550 million in reserves. -
In the past 12 years Detroit says it’s demolished about 27,000 vacant homes, and sold about 19,000 more to rehabbers. -
The three bills would start building a framework for regulating the environmental impacts of "hyperscale" data centers. -
The new license is “subject to updated and strengthened conditions designed to improve protection of the surrounding community and the environment,” regulators said. -
Virtual power plants let utilities take surplus power from distributed sources of energy, like rooftop solar panels. They can then redistribute it throughout the grid, especially during times when demand is highest. -
The report concludes that without “robust governance frameworks” in place, next-generation nuclear is likely to reinforce or even create problems that technology alone can’t fix. -
MDOC says drugs are still coming in through mail items disguised as confidential legal material. So starting January 5, those documents will be given to inmates as photocopies. -
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin said she’s been notified that an FBI counterterrorism investigation has been opened against her and five other congressional Democrats whom President Donald Trump has accused of “seditious behavior." -
Mayor Mike Duggan said grants from the Trump and Biden administrations have allowed it to buy 129 new buses, representing more than 40% of Detroit’s entire fleet, and new funding from a state transportation package means both bus drivers and mechanics will get much-needed raises.
