Upper Peninsula

Today, a conversation with Kate Wells about Flint’s groundbreaking child health and welfare program, and the gained interest for a possible Upper Peninsula expansion.

Today, how it started, and how it’s going with Flint’s child health experiment, Rx Kids. Also, a year of open conflict between Israel and its neighbors takes its toll in Michigan. Plus, how to get up to speed on Michigan Supreme Court candidates.

Virtually 100% of babies in Flint are receiving up to $7,500 in cash aid, no strings attached. Now, that program is trying to expand to more Michigan communities, including the rural eastern Upper Peninsula. But first, they have to raise millions in private funding.

Today, the Trump campaign’s Michigan blitz. Also, the pros and cons of introducing genetically engineered strains of fish into the Great Lakes to help a threatened trout species. Plus, what a Netlfix documentary featuring Connor Stalions reveals about Michigan’s sign stealing scandal, and college football’s cloak and dagger elements.

The state of Michigan has opened nine more permanent drop-off locations for electronic waste since 2021.

Today, we discuss new changes to the policy that allows student athletes to be paid directly for their name, image and likeness. Then, we listened to more of Interlochen Public Radio's Points North, a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. Later, we talk to an anthropology professor at Wayne State University about how Black Americans were the fore-runners to the modern lottery system.

Researchers look at how to control the parasite that causes swimmer’s itch, a husband-and-wife team of professional mushroom hunters offer their spring foraging tips, and the history of an undergarments factory run by women in the Upper Peninsula.

A conversation with one of the newest members of Michigan’s Natural Resource Commission, the culinary career of a recipient of Michigan State's Outstanding Alumni Award, and the history of a nearly forgotten national outdoor recreation gear empire from the UP.

A Lions, Wolverines, and Spartans football roundup, ghost town hunting in the Upper Peninsula, comparing Ohio's new reproductive rights to Michigan's and using words of wonder in discourse.

The latest on the UAW strike against the Detroit 3. Author Angeline Boulley on her latest young adult novel in which the main character is an indigenous Yooper. And how streaming services are making a space for Michigan's Black filmmakers.