John U. Bacon, Michigan Radio sports commentator, joined Stateside to give us an update on everything going on with Michigan sports (and there is a lot). Listen above to hear Bacon's expectations for how the rest of March Madness will play out, some...
A Flint water researcher might have thrown a monkey wrench into prosecutors' case against Nick Lyon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Lyon is being prosecuted by the state on charges of involuntary manslaughter and mi...
The Detroit auto show isn't dead. It just feels that way. The latest casualties are the princes of the German auto industry. First Mercedes-Benz won't be attending next year's auto show. Neither will its Bavarian brother, BMW. Bets on how long until...
As Ford talks of buying Michigan Central Station, residents in the surrounding neighborhood might be the ones seeing the most impact. Howard King, a longtime Corktown resident, joined Stateside to give his perspective on the potential purchase as a m...
Macy's has rolled out a new fashion line called Verona. It's aimed at Muslim women who want Western-style clothing and hijabs, or headscarves. Founder of the Verona Collection is Lisa Vogl, a fashion photographer who grew up in East Lansing. She conv...
DTE Energy is planning to close three of its coal-fired power plants by 2023. That's 1,300 megawatts of electricity coming off the books. But what will take its place? The company wants to build a $1-billion natural gas plant in East China Township i...
Tomorrow, people in cities around the country and around the state will be holding events to protest school shootings such as the one in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and teachers were killed. March for Our Lives gatherings will be held in Det...
We travel the state every once in a while for our Artisans of Michigan series, and this time we went to Flint. C.H. Schultz amp; Sons has been repairing upholstery in cars nearly as long as cars have been around. Back in 1917, more than 100 years ago...
So Bill Ford wants the Blue Oval to buy the decrepit Michigan Central Depot. You know that toothless edifice, empty and decaying since 1988, towering over Detroit's Corktown. It's an 18-story high reminder of the industrial and financial decline that...
We use contractions such as can't or shouldn't all the time in our writing. There are a few though that we use in speech but probably wouldn't write down. For example, if you read that last paragraph out loud, do you actually say there are or do you...
