Today a U.S. House Committee is holding a hearing to get a progress report on the 2020 census. If the Trump administration gets its way, the next census will have something that hasn't been on a census in 70 years: a question about your citizenship s...
It has been nearly 41 years since the passing of Elvis Presley, but The King can still draw a crowd. Continuing Stateside's look at Michigan festivals, we headed to Ypsilanti for Michigan Elvisfest, taking place July 6 and 7 at Riverside Park. Mary D...
Tracking a student's behavior is a big part of a teacher's job. Two Michigan teachers developed a new app to make that job a little bit easier. It's called TABS, Tracking Appropriate Behaviors System. Along with tracking a student's behavior, it can...
New laws signed by Governor Rick Snyder last Friday set up commissions to oversee the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Environmentalists say those commissions will be stacked with business and industry people and give them more influence...
Canadians are unhappy. President Trump's tariffs on Canadian-made steel and aluminum exported to the US has fired up many Canadian leaders and consumers. On Sunday, Canada slapped tariffs on 12.63 billion dollars worth of American-made goods in retal...
For years, scientists have been developing ways to put algae in your gas tank. It works, but we're still a long way from buying algal biofuel at the pump. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been experimenting with methods that could impro...
The North American Great Lakes region has some of the world's leading experts on freshwater issues. A new nonprofit wants to share this expertise with researchers working with the Great Lakes across the Atlantic in Africa. Ted Lawrence is executive d...
For several months now, English Professor Anne Curzan has been combing through various editions of the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage to see how usage rules have changed over time. This project is the quintessential labor of love for a lang...
The nation's oldest documented structure built for women, by women, was a lending library right here in Michigan. The Kalamazoo Ladies Library Association (LLA), loosely formed in 1852, has been holding meetings in its historic red brick Venetian Got...
Bees might be small, but they play an outsize role in food production. In fact, one of every three bites of food we eat is made possible by bees. While a lot of attention on the shrinking bee population focuses on honeybees, they aren't the only poll...