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Today, progress toward diversity in the U.S. House is halted as four Black Republican Congressmen leave the caucus. Plus, how much do you really know about the ways owls communicate? Then, farming in Michigan is not just limited to rural areas—it's happening in major cities, too. And, a new novel explores the complexities of friendship, loss, and love in the UP.

A hunger strike began Monday at North Lake Processing Center. Plus, a vintage toy store in Livonia is adapting to younger generations of customers.

Ford says a new mid-sized electric truck is on the way, priced at just $30,000. Michigan teachers are earning thousands of dollars less than the national average, and a recent study says Michiganders want to pay them more. A writer and translator drifts from the Adriatic to the Aegean in the upcoming novel by a professor at Wayne State.

First, a look at who's who in Detroit's mayoral election. Then, why the University of Michigan's Symphonic Band may be coming to your town. Plus, a historical fiction novel about a storied, Northern Michigan asylum.

In today’s book-centric episode, an artistic opera director’s opinion on how to keep opera alive. Additionally, a Michigan native is publishing a book about Black thinkers and their manifestation of Black utopias amid deprivation and repression. Then, an Ann Arbor novelist discusses her second novel.

Levon Kafafian's new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit imagines a fantastical future rooted in Armenian textile and storytelling traditions.

Today, an MSU expert talks about what some of Michigan’s key independent and undecided constituencies might be looking for from the presidential and vice presidential candidates. Then we talk with the executive director of the Ukrainian American Archives and Museum about a new exhibit showing how some Ukrainian Americans are embracing tattoos as national pride. Lastly, we talk with an award-winning short fiction writer about the release of her new speculative fiction novel.

Today, why Republicans are changing their plan, encouraging voters to cast ballots absentee this year. Also, students and staff at Concordia University in Ann Arbor face major cutbacks, and an uncertain future for degree programs. Plus, a conversation with bestselling horror writer Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box. His new book is all about a young girl with an imaginary friend… one her parents quickly learn to dread.

Details on police breaking up the encampment at University of Michigan, a love connection via Lake Michigan, and a Michigan author's latest murder mystery.

Thoughts on the president's weekend visit to Detroit, and Detroit’s new population stats. Schools observe more cannabis access among young people since recreational use was legalized. And novelist Debra Payne brings us a story of connection and renewal set in Northern Michigan.