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Although there are no state senate elections this year, a new map of the Metro Detroit area has been submitted for review. Additionally, we hear about the competing reactions to the building of a new copper mine in the Western Upper Peninsula. Plus, a conversation with two professors about their recent book on Black women and how higher educational spaces have treated them.
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Landlords would be barred from discriminating against tenants or prospective tenants who use housing vouchers or other types of public assistance to pay the rent under bills adopted by the Legislature.
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Today, some residents of Detroit neighborhoods try to get answers about concrete smashing operations near their homes. Also, Michigan’s Legislature turns its attention to interventions for kids' dyslexia and other kinds of reading delays. Plus, what’s cooking at the Dixboro Project. We’ll meet the new executive chef and partner Garret Lipar, who dazzled Detroiters at the micro-sized restaurant Albena.
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A report by the University of Michigan and Michigan State Housing Development Authority says housing costs are outstripping many Michigan residents' incomes.
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The protesters have been camped out on the U of M Diag since last month calling on the university to divest investments from Israel.
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What can be learned from the cyber attack on the Ascension health system and the Berrien County Health Department is launching a survey to determine the level of “period poverty."
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A Senate bill proposes to reserve the income of Michigan children in foster care in a trust fund for their future use, rather than seizing it to compensate the state for the cost of their care.
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Ghost streams are water courses that have been either buried or filled in by new development. But the original geologic features are still there, lurking, when flooding hits.
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Learning the history of divestment and protests at the University of Michigan, and the mix of reactions from Jewish students to current on-campus protests.
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The University of Michigan has declined protesters’ calls to divest its endowment from companies with ties to Israel’s war in Gaza. Here’s when U of M has divested in the past, and why.
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The Detroit People's Food Co-op will open its doors on Wednesday, May 1st, bringing a mix of natural, organic, and conventional goods, plus a multi-use community space to Detroit's North End.
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Hundreds of students have been arrested. Columbia says progress was made in negotiations with protesters, while at GWU, students are flouting orders to clear encampments.