Where do Michigan Radio's story ideas come from?
When people find out I work in radio, there are usually a few classic questions they ask."How'd you get into it?" (I got my foot in the door as an intern.) "Are you related to Michelle Norris?" (Nope.)...
View ArticleGrowing Michigan’s independent music scene
An organization in Ann Arbor is providing independent musicians with tools and experience to help develop their careers as musicians. The event is called“Fresh Water Musicon” and it happens Saturday,...
View ArticleHelping Americans better understand history and civics
Schools across Michigan have wrapped up a week of activities designed to help students better understand America’s founding principles.Michael Warren is an Oakland County Circuit Court Judge and...
View ArticleCenter for homeless youth opens in Wyandotte
The Yard is a new center for homeless and runaway youth based in Wyandotte. It provides tutoring, food, computers, a washer and dryer, and a place for young people to hangout.Jane Scarlett is the...
View ArticlePoliticians learn their lines
Bob Kolt is using a wildly popular video clip to teach future politicians the importance of knowing their lines. It’s an excerpt from the 2007 Miss Teen USA competition. In the video, Miss South...
View ArticleA year of eating an indigenous diet
Imagine eating the same foods that Native Americans in the Great Lakes region ate before European settlers arrived. That’s the idea behind a one-year study at Northern Michigan University.
View ArticleThe week in Michigan politics
Every week Michigan Radio talks with political analyst Jack Lessenberry about what's been happening in Michigan politics.This week Lessenberry and Kyle Norris talked about how Governor Rick Snyder is...
View ArticleHomeless Awareness Week
Homeless Awareness Week in Michigan is November 10-18. The idea is to highlight the causes of homelessness and the issues that homeless people face. There are events planned in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo,...
View ArticleThe week in Michigan politics
It's a busy news week in Michigan politics. This week Kyle Norris and Jack Lessenberry discuss various proposals and happenings in Lansing:1. Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway faces...
View ArticleHelping the homeless in Detroit
Michigan Radio's Kyle Norris has been been spending a lot of time in Detroit lately to report on stories of people doing things to help the homeless in the city.And this week Michigan Radio will be...
View ArticleStateside: Med team brings "street medicine" to Detroit's homeless
Several Wayne State University students started Street Medicine Detroit in May.They’d heard about a similar program in Pittsburg and they were inspired. They partnered with a Detroit non-profit called...
View ArticleStateside: At-risk, LGBTQ kids find safety through vogue dance
Matthew Dawson is the kid wearing sunglasses inside, in the middle of the day. He’s in a room full of about twenty kids who flip, dip, and cat-walk in a dance style known as “vogue.” (For a quick...
View ArticleStateside: Homeless shelters get a makeover
Imagine what you might know about physical space and tranquility if you lived in a drug house, an abandoned building, or jail.That’s the experience for many of the women who stay at the Women and...
View ArticleCounting Michigan's homeless
Michigan organizations that help homeless people are taking part in a “snap-shot” census. The federal government requires the overnight count every other year. It’s part of the Obama administration’s...
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UM professor says “no shame” for children with disorder of sex development
It’s not uncommon for newborn babies to have an unclear gender. About one in 300 infants have a disorder of sex development (or DSD). That means babies have atypical sex chromosomes, atypical gonads,...
View ArticleMetal heads and academics unite
This weekend an international heavy metal conference for academics and researchers is happening in Bowling Green, Ohio. It's called "The Heavy Metal & Popular Culture Conference," and organizers...
View ArticleShakespeare helps prisoners change
Frannie Shepherd-Bates is a Shakespeare geek. She is also executive artistic director of the Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company in Detroit.Twice a week, Shepherd-Bates drives from metro Detroit to the...
View ArticleMaking antifreeze safer for children and animals
Antifreeze often looks like a sports-drink or Kool-Aid and it can have a sweet smell that attracts animals and kids. A bill in the Michigan legislature would require that a bittering agent be added to...
View ArticleThis week in Michigan politics: Medicaid expansion, immigration reform, race...
This week in Michigan politics, Jack Lessenberry and Kyle Norris discuss Medicaid expansion in Michigan, immigration reform and how it could affect struggling Michigan cities, and the race for Senator...
View ArticleWhere do Michigan Radio's story ideas come from?
When people find out I work in radio, there are usually a few classic questions they ask."How'd you get into it?" (I got my foot in the door as an intern.) "Are you related to Michelle Norris?" (Nope.)...
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