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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The ACLU of Michigan says longtime Detroit resident Juan Manuel Lopez-Campos has been in detention since he was pulled over for a routine traffic violation in Romulus in June. -
Council members Mohammed Hassan and Muhtasin Sadman have been charged with multiple felonies, including forgery, and a misdemeanor. -
A Wayne County judge issued a preliminary injunction barring any waste from former nuclear project sites nationwide from being landfilled at Wayne Disposal in Van Buren Township. -
Consumers Energy had planned to shutter the JH Campbell complex for good at the end of May. But eight days before that, the U.S. Department of Energy ordered it to remain open for at least 90 more days, citing a law that allows the federal government to mandate power production in emergency situations. -
First-time curfew violators will face a $250 penalty, and $500 for a second offense. Police Chief Todd Bettison said stepping up curfew enforcement is just one tool — but a necessary one —that police need to help deal with a spate of juvenile gun crimes this summer. -
Since 2021, Michigan public libraries have “confronted an unprecedented rise in coordinated attempts to ban books, restrict access to ideas, and undermine a core tenet of public libraries: to serve everyone, without bias or exclusion,” the petition reads. It urges state lawmakers to act to protect them. -
For 11 years, Duane Williams was in prison, convicted of setting fire to a Detroit home, killing two people. Not only was Williams innocent — the crime never happened. -
Around 600 workers at the Cleveland Cliffs-owned Dearborn Works plant are at risk of losing their jobs. Michigan Public reporter Sarah Cwiek spoke to Stateside about why this is happening, and what it all means. -
The Trump administration has recently taken two steps which put a cleaner vision for a strong domestic steel industry in jeopardy, according to some analysts. -
About $38 million for more than 200 learning centers in Michigan is included in the education money abruptly frozen by the Trump administration.
