On today's Stateside, as members of the Michigan State community continue to mourn the three students who were killed in last year's mass shooting at the university, we heard from a professor about the continuous impact the shooting has had on his life. We covered the growing debate over the environmental impact of digesters, which take organic matter such as food waste and burn the gasses they emit to generate electricity. Then, as a part of Ann Arbor's bicentennial this year, a documentary has been made about the closing of the Jones School, which served west Ann Arbor, a majority-Black neighborhood at the time, before being closed by the Board of Education in 1965. We discussed this documentary and the history around the Jones School, now the Ann Arbor Community High School. To conclude today's show, we spoke with the alt-country band Frontier Ruckus about the details of their upcoming album, tales from touring and the music inspirations that informed this album.
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GUESTS ON TODAY'S SHOW:
- Michelle Jokisch Polo, bilingual Latinx stories reporter for WKAR
- Ellie Katz, environmental reporter for Interlochen Public Radio
- Izzy Ross, climate solutions reporter for Interlochen Public Radio
- Donald Harrison, lead producer and director at 7 Cylinders Studio
- Omer Jean Winborn, former student of the Jones School; retired educator
- David W. Jones, banjo player and vocals for Frontier Ruckus
- Matthew Milia, lead vocals and multi-instrumentalist for Frontier Ruckus
- Zachary Nichols, multi-instrumentalist for Frontier Ruckus
