Etai Smotrich-Barr
Reporting FellowEtai Smotrich-Barr is a Reporting Fellow at Michigan Public, in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. He previously worked as a production assistant with Michigan Public’s Stateside. He is also a graduate of Yale University, where he served as an investigative reporter at the Yale Daily News and as a senior editor at The New Journal. Etai was born and raised in Ann Arbor. He enjoys printmaking and musicmaking, and is seeking advice for raising plants.
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When the Wayne County prosecutor charged Kevin Matlock with felony murder, he could only think one thing: “I didn't kill anyone. Why do y’all keep saying murder?” -
Using data from correctional records, court documents, and charging reports, Michigan Public analyzed how county prosecutors use the state’s felony murder law. -
The group is one of several across the Midwest who says their bus trips to the Capitol were canceled hours before departure. -
The Michigan Supreme Court struck down life without parole sentences for people convicted of felony murder before 1980. The ruling is the latest decision limiting mandatory life based on constitutional protections against cruel or unusual punishment. -
Deer remain a big problem for Michigan drivers. They're involved in tens of thousands of crashes annually, and in certain urban and suburban areas of the state, an abundance is affecting motorists as well as farmers, insurance companies, and residents. -
Tanya and Wasinade Raphael are the mother-daughter team whose food truck is drawing long lines at powwows across Northern Michigan. -
Gila monster research helped spawn recent medications for diabetes and weight loss like Ozempic. So when Pebbles, a resident at the Creature Conservancy in Ann Arbor, needed help, it only seemed fair that a pharmaceutical expert stepped in. -
Gila monster research helped spawn recent medications for diabetes and weight loss like Ozempic. So when Pebbles, a resident at the Creature Conservancy in Ann Arbor, needed help, it only seemed fair that a pharmaceutical expert stepped in.
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How Michiganders can temporarily live their dreams of being a lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes. -
Mackinac Island is celebrating 150 years since it was designated the country’s second-ever national park. Stateside spoke with the chief curator at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Craig Wilson, about early life and conflict on Mackinac Island, the tourism boom, and the little-known history of Mackinac’s brief time as a national park.
