Stateside Staff

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ICE detained a transgender Ypsilanti woman who has lived in Michigan for over a decade. An expert weighs in on Kellogg’s recent agreement with Texas to remove artificial food dyes from its products. That time a Michigan county tried to ban wearing swimsuits in cars and, this month’s episode of The Dish.

What to expect from U-M and MSU in the upcoming football season, a Lansing poet’s arts project in mid-Michigan, and this week’s episode of It’s Just Politics, featuring Pete Buttigieg.

Some Michigan teachers are taking on summer side hustles as a result of low pay in schools. Then, how Congress's major tax and spending plan affects rural hospitals. Plus, a new book created for older elementary students reading below grade-level.

First, a University of Michigan researcher spoke with us about the results of an Ann Arbor program providing a guaranteed monthly stipend to participants. Plus, we caught up with a sumo champion from Grand Rapids who will be representing the US at the World Sumo Championships this September. Also, a look at women's rugby in the advent of the 10th women's rugby World Cup.

Insights on immigrant and infant health in Washtenaw County, details of a Grand-Rapids based program to provide monthly cash payments to mothers with low income, and a look back at the Jefferson Beach Amusement Park.

Ford says a new mid-sized electric truck is on the way, priced at just $30,000. Michigan teachers are earning thousands of dollars less than the national average, and a recent study says Michiganders want to pay them more. A writer and translator drifts from the Adriatic to the Aegean in the upcoming novel by a professor at Wayne State.

After the SanDisk Corporation axed plans for a facility in Flint, we discussed whether there's a future for semiconductor manufacturing in Michigan. Also, a new book explores how, for decades, policies have undermined Black home ownership in America—zooming in on Detroit.

First, a look at the debate over Grand Rapids' climate plan. Then, a Detroit-based artist talks about her woven tapestries, created with a digital loom. Plus, how community service and fly fishing come together for juvenile offenders along the Au Sable River. And, how the face of mobile home lot ownership is changing.

What to make of a private meeting between Governor Whitmer and President Trump; from our friends at Interlochen Public Radio’s Points North, a microorganism that conducts electricity and what might happen if our devices were alive; and with Michigan Public’s own Beenish Ahmed, the short story collection about Muslim-American life that won her a Kresge Artist Fellowship.