Author: Interlochen Public Radio
Funding for UP copper mine held up in Senate Appropriations Committee
The $50 million grant was advanced by the House Appropriations Committee last week.
Lawsuit names TCAPS, others after boy’s death at school bus stop
The suit, filed in federal court by the estate of Jayson Hoogeveen, asks for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
50 years ago today, Art Duhamel was arrested for fishing in Grand Traverse Bay
The arrest led to a test case that would force the state of Michigan to recognize Anishinaabe fishing rights in the Grand Traverse region.
Complete With His Language
Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14 years-old, teaching customers from behind the meat counter at a grocery store. Now, it’s his life mission to get more people speaking the Great Lakes’ original and endangered language.
Unreliable winters bring new ideas, from different offerings to lobbying
Among the longer-term approaches to address increasingly unreliable winter weather, some groups are pushing against fossil fuels.