A 26-year-old, pregnant environmental activist is serving a two-year sentence at Michigan's Huron Valley Correctional Facility right now. But Siwatu-Salama Ra says she acted in self-defense when she pulled a gun on another woman last summer during an...
Detroit's back in control of its finances: it's out of oversight. It's a big moment for a city that only three years ago exited the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley joined Stateside today to ex...
More than 1,000 people marched through the streets of downtown Grand Rapids Tuesday in support of immigrants and protesting deportations. Andy Johnston is the VP of government and corporate affairs for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce. He joined...
State Senator Steve Bieda is perhaps the biggest history buff in the Michigan legislature. He's an expert on coins, once designed one for the mint, and fought to get new replicas of Civil War cannons installed on the lawn, and to get the Capitol rest...
Piping plovers are little shorebirds, and they're an endangered species in the Great Lakes region. But theyre making a comeback thanks to conservation efforts and even some heroics. Last year was pretty exciting for Mary Birdsong. She's a shorebird m...
The robots are coming! The world's biggest robotics competition is happening in Detroit this Wednesday through Saturday, bringing some 40-thousand students, mentors, coaches and their families to Ford Field and Cobo Center. This is the first year tha...
Put 30 strangers on a bus and set the countdown clock: 72 hours riding from Detroit to New Orleans. That's 72 hours for these strangers to conceive, build, and launch a start-up. That's what will happen on the StartupBus this Friday through next Tues...
As the legislature looks to address sexual assault at Michigan State University, the Detroit Free Press has been examining sexual harassment among employees in Michigan's prisons. The paper reports women who work for the Michigan Department of Correc...
You don't have to be a geneticist to know species need genetic diversity. That's the key practical reason why most societies forbid incest. European kings and queens often married first cousins, and that helped spread hemophilia throughout the royal...
Today is 4/20, a day that holds a special significance for marijuana activists and consumers alike. Stateside decided to mark the date by talking to Michigan Radio's capitol bureau chief Rick Pluta about the latest developments in the process to lice...