The End of Pandemic Restrictions
After more than a year, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has set a clear date for the end to the state’s pandemic restrictions: July 1. On this episode, we hear about why the business community says they sti...
20 Touko 202118min
Ford F-150 Lightning Unveil
Ford is revealing it’s fully electrified version of a classic. It’s the subject of much curiosity both for F-150 fans and the wider industry. This week, President Joe Biden was in Dearborn, Michigan t...
19 Touko 202121min
Comeback of the Trumpeter Swan
The Trumpeter Swan is a native species that once numbered in the tens-of-thousands in the Great Lakes region, but was wiped out in Michigan more than 100 years ago. But thanks to the decades-long effo...
18 Touko 202114min
To Mask or Not to Mask
When the CDC announced last week that masks were no longer necessary for vaccinated individuals, we saw images and stories of people taking their masks off at the highest levels of government -- in th...
17 Touko 202116min
Vax on? Mask off.
Today Governor Whitmer announced she will follow the CDC and end the mask mandate for vaccinated Michiganders. Many of the details about what this means for gatherings and workplaces are still forthco...
14 Touko 202119min
Microdosing in Michigan
For a long time, psychedelic drugs brought to mind tie-dye, free love, and 1960s counterculture, but that’s changing. Now, there’s a push to decriminalize psychedelic drugs in Michigan, both for medic...
13 Touko 202118min
Showdown at Line 5
Last November, Governor Whitmer ordered Enbridge Energy to close the Line 5 twin pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac this week -- as in before midnight tonight. But Enbridge says they have no plans o...
12 Touko 202119min
MSU’s 142-year-old seed study
In 1879, a botanist named William Beal was conducting his research at State Agricultural College - the land-grant college that would one day become MSU. The school focused on agricultural studies, and...
11 Touko 202119min
