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Stateside

Stateside

Stateside covers what you need (and want) to know about Michigan. Tune in every day at 3 and 8 p.m., or subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen. Stateside is hosted by April Baer.

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Life can change in a matter of days. It’s been true throughout history, every time infectious diseases strikes. Stateside brings you a podcast special examining the changes in health care, social gatherings, disinformation, work life, and families Michiganders have been living with since 2020.
Dough Dynasty is a limited-run podcast series that tells the story of how Michigan became the pizza chain headquarters of the world, and how these chains shaped pizza as we know it today.

Listen to the full series at the link.
What the Vote? is a podcast all about Gen Z's role in the 2024 election, as told by Gen-Z reporters. From reproductive rights to free speech to the war in Gaza, we'll dig deep into the issues that matter to young people. This limited six-episode series is now available on your favorite podcast platforms.
  • 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.
  • Guest host Zoe Clark hears from one Michigan official who is calling for more action on Canadian wildfires. And, learn more about the inaugural Mini Black Zine Fair happening weekend.
  • Detroit voters chose City Council President Mary Sheffield and Pastor Solomon Kinloch Jr. to move forward to November’s general election in the race to become the city’s next mayor. Plus, a majority of local Michigan officials think the state is on the wrong track.
  • With booming supply and plateauing demand, the marijuana industry in Michigan may be at a tipping point.
  • South Haven is restarting its lifeguard program following 19 drownings in Lake Michigan so far this summer. Also, a beloved Ann Arbor garden center is closing after more than 100 years of business. Then, a look back at Detroit's mayoral runs.
  • The state is trying to clear up confusion around COVID vaccine coverage for children and pregnant women after new federal guidance. We talked to Michigan Public's health reporter about what you need to know. Then, a new program that delivers breast milk from incarcerated mothers to their babies at home. And, we look at the toll of data centers on Michigan’s fresh water resources.
  • Guest host Stephen Henderson covers a proposed cell phone ban in Michigan schools, voter turnout in the Detroit mayoral primary, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s future.
  • In 2015, Michigan set a ten-year goal to rank among the top 10 states for education. The state has poured billions of dollars into its education system, the 9th largest investment of any state. But a decade later, Michigan has not only failed to increase its scores — the state now regularly ranks within the bottom 10 states in the nation.
  • Eye-raising fundraising numbers are released in Michigan’s 2026 race for governor. Plus, President Trump puts his thumb on Michigan’s political scale in the GOP primary race for U.S. Senate.
  • First, a debrief on U.S.-Canada tariffs and what they might mean for Michigan. Also, a reflection on the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance and the theories it engendered. Then, a Michigan attorney and activist who joined a Gaza-bound freedom flotilla speaks on famine in the Gaza strip.
  • Updates on the stabbing of 11 people at a Walmart in Traverse City on Saturday. Also, the last surviving member of a widely-known family of quadruplets from Lansing has died. Then, a native Michigan author's latest book traverses parallel dimensions as the characters contend with the variants of life.