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New research on housing insecurity and Black women’s health, Governor Whitmer on her relationship with President Trump, two teens sentenced to five years for sneaking out of the house, and Dearborn thinks big about buffering industrial presence in residential areas.

First, we discuss the contents of a Michigan State University email about the institution's finances. Then, a visit from a Grand Rapids PBS icon. Plus, Bob Seger's 80th birthday and his legacy.

We discussed what’s ahead for Stellantis now that the auto giant’s CEO has stepped down. Then, we met the man behind a well-loved coffee house and community space in Hamtramck. Plus, Alma Cooper on her journey through the Michigan pageant circuit to the Miss USA crown.

Kitab Cafe, with locations in Hamtramck and Detroit, is bringing a blend of coffee and community spaces to Southeast Michiganders.

How new vehicles collect data and how that data can be sold to insurance companies, a trip to a Yemini coffee roastery in Dearborn, and a biography on Magic Johnson detailing his childhood in Lansing and time at Michigan State.

The first over-the-counter birth control pill and how it will affect contraceptive accessibility for teenagers, a trip to Hamtramck's Kitab Cafe, and the perspectives of four Palestinian-Americans in Michigan as Israel's bombardment of Gaza continues.

Owner Hatem Al-Eidaroos wanted Qamaria to be a new place for people, specifically Yemini-Americans and other Arab-Americans, to sit and enjoy each other's company as another extension of the home environment.

Today, efforts at the federal level to reform civil asset forfeiture laws. Plus, a conversations with the owner of a Yemeni coffee house, and with the heiress of a Michigan pizza empire.

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow on extending funding for free school lunches. Then, the tourist boom for Pictured Rocks and what it means for the surrounding community. We also heard from a unionizing Starbucks employee in Lansing and got an update on the FBI arrest of Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley.

Two Greater Lansing Starbucks stores voted to unionize Thursday. It’s part of a growing wave of workers organizing at the coffee chain.