southeast Michigan

How Southeast Michigan's Jewish community is reacting after news of an attack on a West Bloomfield synagogue. Also, poet Jonah Mixon-Webster’s newest book. Plus, the Archives of Michigan has the story of the first man in the state to adopt as a single parent.

A new detention facility is coming to southeast Michigan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirms. ICE said the detention center would create more than a thousand jobs. But many local leaders have opposed the facility.

It’s the first time in 10 years SEMCOG has done this type of analysis, and the council says there’s been some marginal improvement in overall regional mobility during that time—but not nearly enough.

Environmental groups are looking to raise $6 million to protect a key Michigan prairie from being developed. The Sibley Prairie, located in southeast Michigan, is a rare lakeplain prairie of 440 acres with a robust wetland ecosystem.

In this edition of Stateside, we discuss the termination of funding for all Michigan Humanities. Following that, we have a conversation with Lauren Roberts about the release of her new book. Finally, we explore the reactions surrounding the termination of the University of Michigan’s DEI program.

A regional water utility in Michigan is getting federal help to determine how to best mitigate increasing flood risks.

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.

An Oxford High School shooting survivor reacts to ruling that the shooter is eligible to be sentenced to life without parole, then a Southeast Michigan eatery that focuses on Peruvian foods. And the strong connections between residents and the businesses in Southwest Detroit.

West Michigan's bad air day, Annisa Gray's new novel, and Lansing's potential as a destination town.

This post was originally written July 8, 2021. It has been updated following the mass power outages on August 12, 2021.While tropical storms are…