Mike Mathieu has been a paramedic, a firefighter and — since 1995 — he’s served as chief of the Ogden City Fire Department.

I’d pack a trunk full of swimsuits, Nike shorts, and white Hanes t-shirts and my parents would take my sister and me on a six-hour drive through Texas, from our hometown of Beaumont to the small ...

Beyond the comeback headlines and downtown development lies the real Motor City—coney joints that have fed families for ...