Created Equal, Season 2: Journalist Ron Fonger Says Water Crisis Was Government’s Failed Attempt “To Save Money”
Longtime journalist for the Flint Journal and MLive Ron Fonger talks with Stephen Henderson about his work covering the crisis....
Created Equal, Season 2: Lindsey Smith On Immersing Herself in Flint and Telling Residents’ Stories
In this episode, Stephen Henderson speaks with Lindsey Smith, p. 273, Michigan Radio’s Investigative Reporter. Her 2015 documentary about the Flint...
Detroit City Councilman Discusses His District and the Death of Policeman
Roy McCalister Jr. is relatively new to Detroit City Council having been elected in 2017 to represent District 2, but he’s been...
Detroit City Council Rejects Duggan’s Blight Bond Proposal. Now What?
Detroit City Council voted down a proposal to add a $250-million blight bond question to the March primary ballot. The...
Hospitals Help Patients But Not the Planet. Here’s How to Change That.
Healthcare facilities in the United States dispose of 4 billion pounds of waste annually, making them the second largest contributor to...
Livonia’s First Female Mayor Sees Her Election Win As Continuation of 2018’s Pink Wave
Local elections around Metro Detroit earlier this month had significant outcomes in several cities. One of those cities is Livonia,...
Michigan Has Its Share of Wildfires, Caused Mostly by People
Wildfires have killed more than 100 people and destroyed thousands of homes in California since 2017. Cal Fire, the state's...
Pot Proposal Failures Not Harshing Advocates’ Mellow
During last week's elections, voters rejected a number of proposed ordinances on their local ballots that would have allowed cannabis businesses...
VA Hospitals Struggle to Address Suicide, Substance Abuse Amongst Veterans
In the US, today marks Veterans Day. It’s a day nations around the world celebrate the military service of men and...
Senator Gary Peters On Impeachment, Climate Change, and Michigan Politics
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump is commanding headlines and consuming national politics. While the turmoil in Washington consumes the discourse,...
Created Equal, Season 2: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha On “the Perfect Storm” That Led to Flint
“There’s many long-standing causes that created the Flint Water Crisis, it wasn’t one person and one decision. It was a...
Created Equal, Season 2: Former EPA Water Expert on Finding the Evidence for Flint
"Nobody is really going to pay attention that there's lead in the water until there's evidence that people are being...