Voters' rights groups are gathering signatures for a constitutional amendment to make registering to vote easier in Michigan. The Promote the Vote campaign is being backed by several groups including the League of Women Voters of Michigan. Judy Karan...
Doesn't matter to Donald Trump what his fellow Republicans say. Or what Wall Street and America's closest allies say. The president wants tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and this week he got them, along with some last-minute carve outs for th...
Employee perks have become increasingly elaborate over the years. Some jobs come with unlimited vacation time and months of paid parental leave. There are companies that offer a constant supply of free food. This place has on-site car wash facilities...
In 2016, the refugee resettlement agency Samaritas helped some 1,400 refugees find new homes and new lives in Michigan. This year, they expect to receive 100 refugees. That drop has meant big changes for refugee resettlement agencies all around Michi...
Michael Collins' second collection of poems, Appearances, functions as a spiritual guide of sorts for the non-believer. The poems follow Collins' trips to an unnamed harbor park where the temporal opens to the depths and the writer is daily stumbling...
Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller almost always calls it as she sees it. She's deeply conservative, but mostly doesn't let ideology get in the way of common sense. So I wasn't surprised yesterday by how she summed up the $175 mil...
Tire shops around the state are busy these days. Why? Blowouts due to potholes. But why are there so many potholes when we've been paying more in fees and fuel taxes? Zach Gorchow, editor of Gongwer News Service, joined Stateside today to explain. He...
Democrats in Lansing want a state law that requires background checks for all firearm purchases. This is one of a number of ideas lawmakers have floated since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. But the House Republican leader says he's focused...
Our goal here at That's What They Say is to answer our listeners' burning questions about language. But here's an interesting question -- why are those questions burning in the first place? Obviously, a question is not a physical object. You can't do...
Last month, the state of Michigan declared Flint's drinking water quality restored. To get to this point, it's taken, among other things, more than 30,000 water tests. Since the crisis, Flint's drinking water system has been one of the most closely m...
