I started my journalism career with a typewriter, a notebook and a pretty basic motivation: I wanted to know what was happening in my community, and why. The typewriter is long gone, replaced by…
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Michigan is set to receive over $173 million in federal funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program to improve health care access in rural communities. This is thanks to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful…
Spring break is here. Across Michigan, families are packing suitcases, planning road trips and looking forward to a few days of rest and reconnection. Travel broadens children’s worlds and can introduce them to new…
Data centers, solar farms, megasites for manufacturing. Some of Michigan’s biggest news headlines point to game-changing economic trends like these with the potential for huge statewide impacts. But behind these headlines is another story,…
Michigan has everything it needs to be the best state in the country again. We’ve got smart kids, committed teachers and parents who care deeply about whether schools are actually preparing their children for…
Nothing shatters you like receiving a devastating medical diagnosis for your child. Our family began walking this journey at my 19-week ultrasound. We’d gone into the procedure excited to learn the sex of our…
Oftentimes, living in a quaint, small town comes with little worry. When you get up in the morning, you expect your clean water will run so you can brush your teeth. You expect that…
The Flint water crisis is still with us. More than a decade later, residents are finally receiving compensation for harms caused by lead-poisoned water. A civil case against the Environmental Protection Agency is moving…
As I’ve done since I was a kid, in January I braved the cold and walked the floor of the Detroit Auto Show at Huntington Place. This time, I left with a simple takeaway:…
The right of students to literacy is in crisis. Reading skills are at historic lows. Last year, for instance, we learned 1 out of 3 high school seniors cannot determine the meaning of a word…