When we talk about immigrant communities in Detroit, the Hmong don't usually come up in that conversation. The ethnic group from Southeast Asia began settling in Northeast Detroit's Osborn neighborhood in the years after the Vietnam War. More recentl...
Former U.S. Senator Robert Griffin, a conservative Republican from Traverse City, died last week, and if you aren't at least in your fifties, you may never have heard of him. Carl Levin beat Griffin when he tried to win a third term thirty-seven year...
A new art project that's made a stop in Michigan is trying to empower women and value girls by recognizing their potential. Girl Noticed has a message and is stating in ten-foot-tall terms. Watching someone sketch is interesting. Watching someone ske...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the legality of same-sex marriage later this month, and a group of young conservatives is pushing to change the Republican Party platform on gay marriage. The group Young Conservatives for the Freedo...
There's a hotel boom happening in downtown Detroit. Once-abandoned buildings are now gleaming new hotels, or will be soon. But will these plans give Detroit too many hotel rooms or not enough? And there have been lengthy discussions over the two hote...
Crowdfunding. The word itself wasn't even known less than a decade ago. But crowdfunding has become a powerful way to raise money. EquityNet tells us that more than $20 billion in funding transactions will happen around the world this year. That is a...
Michigan has 883 operating wind turbines. There's been a big push for wind farms since 2008. That was when lawmakers decided a certain amount of our electricity must come from renewable resources, and utilities built wind turbines to comply. The cost...
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, is urging his colleagues in U.S. House to pass a resolution calling on the Canadian government and the Obama administration to halt the creation of a nuclear storage waste site. The site would be built about a mile from...
Struggling to repay student loans is something that unites many of us. Across the country, almost 40 million people are trying to repay $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. Here in Michigan, 1.5 million people are trying to erase more than $39 billion...
Michigan voters head to the polls in less than a month to vote on a ballot proposal to raise the state's sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent to fund roads. For this Week in Michigan Politics, Michigan Radio's political analyst Jack Lessenberry expl...