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After 37 ballots discovered the day after the 2025 election were counted on Friday, challenger Muhith Mahmood appears to have beaten Mayor Adam Alharbi by 12 votes. Legal challenges are still in process.

Today, thousands of Michiganders may qualify for Canadian citizenship after recent changes in Canadian law. Then, a new book centers around a community corner store and the lives built around it. Also, how the Dodge brothers kept the city of Hamtramck from becoming a part of Detroit.

President Donald Trump nominated Amer Ghalib to the ambassador’s post in Kuwait, after Ghalib, a Democrat, endorsed the Republican nominee in last year’s presidential election.

A judge says a Detroit-area city known for welcoming immigrants did not violate the Constitution by banning LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles.

Council members Mohammed Hassan and Muhtasin Sadman have been charged with multiple felonies, including forgery, and a misdemeanor.

A police chief and a city manager both put on leave. A whistleblower lawsuit. Allegations of criminal wrongdoing, ballot fraud, and a lot of finger-pointing in Hamtrack.

The Hamtramck City Council suspended Max Garbarino with pay at a meeting this week that featured a contentious back-and-forth between Garbarino and the city’s mayor.

Groups combating antisemitism are urging President Donald Trump to scrap the nomination of Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait.

Trump recently nominated two Michigan mayors to fill appointments of U.S. ambassadors to foreign nations.

On this edition of Stateside, we discuss the announcement of two mayors from Michigan being appointed as U.S. ambassadors. Additionally, we have a conversation with a Flint native about his conducting at the Flint Symphony Orchestra.