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  • New Orleans Bruised But Not Broken By Gustav
    Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says despite some flooding from Hurricane Gustav, New Orleans' levees and floodwalls worked as they were designed to. The Corps is tracking the water levels and monitoring communication among agencies and all 13 coastal parishes.
  • High Altitude Got You Down? Try Ibuprofen
    People sometimes take prescription drugs to keep from getting sick at high altitudes. But medical researchers wondered whether ibuprofen, the painkilling mainstay, would be an effective over-the-counter alternative. The results look promising.
  • Commission hopes to offer alternatives to emergency managers
    Opponents of Michigan’s emergency manager law say they’re ready to tackle the problems underlying the financial distress of many Michigan…
  • Boozy Birth Of The American Mafia In Lehane's Latest
    Author Dennis Lehane says he has always loved the clothes, cars and movies of the Prohibition era — which might be why he has set his new novel there. Live By Night doesn't tell the usual Prohibition story about whiskey smugglers — instead it heads south to Florida for a gritty tale of rumrunning.
  • William Moulton Marston went by the pen name Charles Moulton when he wrote Wonder Woman from 1941-1947. This example is from a newspaper strip in March 1945.
    The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds
    Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, had a secret life: He had a wife and a mistress and fathered children with both of them. Jill Lepore explains in The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
  • With Audubon's Help, Beat-Up Kid Is 'Okay For Now'
    Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck has the weight of the world upon him — no friends, an alcoholic father and a brother who has just been injured in Vietnam. But the protagonist of this NPR Backseat Book Club book finds solace in an unlikely place — the pages of Audubon's Birds of America.
  • Grand Rapids is trying to take better care of its city trees.
    Grand Rapids puts a price tag on city trees
    The City of Grand Rapids is working to revive its urban forest. Lindsey Smith visited the committee in charge of the effort to find out how things are…
  • Detroit City Council rejects member's proposal to slash budget
    The Detroit City Council has rejected one member’s efforts to slash its own budget.Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown wanted to cut the council’s…
  • Commentary: Detroit’s next mayor?
    Twelve years ago, I went to talk to Geoffrey Fieger, Michigan’s most flamboyant attorney. Fieger told me he was thinking about running for mayor of…
  • Bart Stupak announces new position
    Former Michigan Representative Bart Stupak has accepted a new position in the Legislative and Government Affairs Group at Venable LLP, a law and lobbying…
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