Stateside Daily Archive

Today we get answers to some of your COVID questions. We talk to an epidemiologist about variants, vaccines, and reinfections. GUEST: Emily Martin, professor at the University of Michigan’s School of ...

26 Jul 202212min

San Diego Comic-Con is kind of like the Nerd Oscars: very glitzy with stars of top-grossing comics-based movies and awards galore. The Eisner Awards are the highest honor in comics. This year's winner...

25 Jul 202219min

Michigan is blessed to be surrounded by some of the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. The Great Lakes are a spectacular beauty. Simultaneously, they are large bodies of water that, in the rig...

22 Jul 202220min

There are two members of the Detroit Public Television Great Lakes Now program who moonlight as sailors. This last week, Sandra Svoboda and Ward Detwiler took part in the Bayview to Mackinac race. Whi...

21 Jul 202213min

Advocates worked on a ballot initiative in 2018 to increase Michigan’s minimum wage and codify other protections. The Republican-controlled legislature voted to approve the increase, but later altered...

20 Jul 202213min

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision is making waves in law enforcement circles. The case—Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta—concerns who prosecutes crimes committed on tribal land when non-Native American sus...

19 Jul 202219min

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently signed an executive order on Wednesday to prevent Michigan’s law enforcement from helping prosecute people who come from out-of-state to receive an abortion. Barbara McQ...

18 Jul 202214min

Grand Rapidian Steve Jessmore won the Audubon national professional photography award for the second year in a row. This time for his picture of northern shoveler ducks titled "Feeding Frenzy". Jessmo...

16 Jul 202218min