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Some of the 2025 policies that have been implemented include cracking down on immigration and dismantling the Department of Education.
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A Michigan judge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the state from spending roughly $645 million from a past budget cycle.
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We looked back on one year of ICE arrests, visited a tattoo artist specializing in mastectomy tattoos, and talked to a Dearborn comedian about his recent experience with police while performing comedy in Nazareth.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) spoke on the Senate floor on Thursday about the Flint community’s struggles in the wake of the Flint water crisis. Slotkin said the community’s still in pain, and in the process of seeking accountability and justice for a water crisis they didn’t cause.
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The school smartphone ban on the way to the state Senate would create exemptions for medical issues, lessons that involve devices, and for basic phones that can't download apps or use internet browsers.
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Bypassing the Court of Claims would have sped up the Michigan cannabis industry's lawsuit over the state's new wholesale tax on marijuana, but the state appeals court says it's not persuaded that the case needs immediate review.
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We talked to a Venezuelan asylum-seeker living in Michigan about her experience with ICE detention. Then, we chatted with an indie band from Michigan about their new album. And we aired the latest episode of It’s Just Politics.
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Politics in Michigan just got more interesting as Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist changes statewide races. Plus a conversation with the Michigan Senate Majority Leader on what can actually get done this year in Lansing with divided government.
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Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been notified that the Trump administration is investigating her after she organized and appeared in a video with other Democrats urging military service members to resist “illegal orders.”
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The case of $645 million in state spending unilaterally canceled by a Republican-led state House committee is scheduled for its first court hearing.
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President Donald Trump says his tariffs are the reason the country's trade deficit has decreased and claims he's revived Detroit's auto industry — though companies have had mixed success recently.
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First, a look at Canada-U.S. trade talks, which are set to resume this January. Then, more on research investigating the effects of environmental hazards endemic to Southwest Detroit. Also, we hear about the mass auctioning off of small, family-owned logging and sawmill businesses in Michigan from Interlochen Public Radio's "Points North" podcast.