Dearborn

Dearborn is equipping all Dearborn Public Schools buses with stop-arm enforcement cameras. The technology is designed to improve student safety by deterring drivers from illegally passing stopped school buses.

The MAGA crowd in general has long been suspicious of Michigan's large Arab-American population, Dearborn in particular with its Arab-American majority and mayor. Some even like to go there and try to pick fights, as happened earlier this week.

First, more on environment-friendly changes recently made to animal farm waste disposal laws. Then, we heard about the escalation of demonstrations led by two different conservative political candidates outside of a Dearborn city council meeting.

Conversations with Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and Wayne State University football coach Tyrone Wheatley. Plus, the Grand Traverse Butterfly House and Bug Zoo, and the details of a powwow happening in Detroit on Indigenous People's Day.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's "ArabCon" is being held in Dearborn for the second straight year. The event is a celebration of Arab culture and a platform for community dialogue.

Playwright and Hedwig and the Angry Inch star John Cameron Mitchell talks about guest-teaching at the University of Michigan. And Dearborn’s chief public health officer discusses the city’s project to calm traffic and reduce air pollution.

Around 600 workers at the Cleveland Cliffs-owned Dearborn Works plant are at risk of losing their jobs. Michigan Public reporter Sarah Cwiek spoke to Stateside about why this is happening, and what it all means.

Michigan Public’s Sarah Cwiek discusses how Trump administration policy could affect U.S.-produced steel. Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor consider updating their zoning laws to allow more population density. A Michigan mom talks about her son’s experience coming out as transgender. And a brief segment about observing flight paths up north.

Stateside takes a driving tour of Dearborn's South End neighborhood to see the current site where industry meets residential, and the future sight of the Greenbelt project.

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.