Category: Michigan Public
Stateside: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
First, a look at the debate over Grand Rapids’ climate plan. Then, a Detroit-based artist talks about her woven tapestries, created with a digital loom. Plus, how community service and fly fishing come together for juvenile offenders along the Au Sable River. And, how the face of mobile home lot ownership is changing.
Deteriorating dams are being removed in Michigan. Will the money for that effort dry up?
A number of deteriorating dams have been torn down and streams restored. It’s expensive, and Michigan’s budget is facing challenges.
Ford to invest nearly $2 billion in Kentucky assembly plant to produce electric vehicles
Ford says it will invest nearly $2 billion to retool a Kentucky plant to produce electric vehicles after producing gas-powered vehicles for decades. The automaker says the goal is to produce EVs that are more affordable, profitable to make and outcompete rival models.
Former K-9 Maple is busy as a bee sniffing out threats to Michigan State University colonies
The Pollinator Performance Center’s range of projects includes a training program for dogs to uncover a bacterial disease that threatens honey bee larvae.
Perseids meteor shower visible in Michigan this summer: what to know
The annual Perseids Meteor shower is visible in Michigan this summer, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). The Perseids get their name from the constellation Perseus, because it is the point in the sky from which the shower comes.