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There is a huge decision facing Michigan voters in an already huge 2026 election: whether to vote to convene a constitutional convention (also known as a “Con-Con”) to rewrite the state’s entire constitution. The implications are enormous. What you need to know.

Working out with dumbbells may be a fitness craze now, but the fitness craze that started it all sounds even better.

President Donald Trump said he fired an MSU professor from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors despite having no legal authority to do so. Also, Michigan Medicine has ended its gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Then, how federal funding cuts to the arts have affected productions in Michigan.

First, an expert from the University of Michigan weighed in on the potentially dangerous effects of the Trump administration's changes to personnel in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Then, we heard from a curator of a new materials exhibition at Michigan State University detailing campus life during the Vietnam War. Plus, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, born a Detroiter, gave an inside look into the Vatican's relationship with the stars.

Even though "mug shots" do not involve drinking or "mugs" in that sense, we can draw a historical connection between these two mugs.

Stateside checks in with a cherry farmer as the season wraps up, learns about why a Lansing resident chose to self-deport to Kenya, and chats with Amanda Uhle about her new memoir.

A new podcast from Michigan Public answers listener questions about the weird and wonderful things that make our state unique! New episodes every Friday, starting Sept. 5!

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.