Tracy Samilton
Energy and Transportation Reporter / ProducerTracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Public. She began her career at Michigan Public as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
She took over the auto beat in January, 2009, just a few months before Chrysler and General Motors filed for bankruptcy.
Tracy’s reports can frequently be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as on Michigan Public.
Her coverage of Michigan’s Detroit Three automakers has taken her as far as Germany, and China. Tracy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature.
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The city of Detroit is launching "quick response teams" to help people with opioid addictions. Firefighters who respond to overdoses will make referrals to the teams. -
The Detroit Free Press says Detroit police officers conducted mass surveillance of hundreds of people involved in protests for years. Detroit Police Chief James White says the department does not do that, and any officers involved in such activity will be held accountable. -
Environmental groups say the planned transformation of the shuttered Karn coal plant site could become a model for dozens of coal plants across the Midwest as they, too, shut down. -
Wolverine Power Cooperative has been awarded a federal grant to subsidize costly electricity from the Palisades Nuclear Power plant in West Michigan — if it restarts. -
5 Lakes Energy says Michigan has capitalized on the clean energy investments in the federal Inflation Reduction Action more than most states in the nation. -
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to prioritize better paying jobs in government contracts during a visit to the Ann Arbor area Friday. -
The Michigan ACLU has sued a member of the Kalamazoo Board of County Canvassers over statements indicating he may not certify the results of the November election. -
The Michigan Department of Education says there was improvement in most grades and most subjects on 2024 M-STEP assessments compared to last year. -
Keep our Republic and Michiganders for Civic Resilience say trust in America's election system is being attacked by hostile nations. -
Thousands of Michiganders can get cold or hot meals at restaurants in 26 counties through a food assistance program called the Restaurant Meal Program.
