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A state Supreme Court decision ends the legal battle over what many people believe was an attempt to hijack the Tea Party movement.
A report by the Michigan League for Human Services says the number of people in the state who were unemployed for six months or more exploded during the auto crisis.
Despite a 25-year effort, a recent study shows virtually no lake trout are breeding in northern Lake Michigan
The tribe sees youth behavioral problems, in part, as the result of a disconnect from tribal custom and spirituality.
Republican Rick Snyder spent six million dollars of his personal fortune to win the G.O.P. nomination for governor. Democratic nominee Virg Bernero relied largely on public funding to keep his campaign in the black.
Local Arts & Culture
A group of dancers from around the region will perform a work by legendary choreographer Martha Graham Friday and Saturday night at the Mills Community House.
The work is titled American Document and IPR's Brad Aspey visited a rehearsal.
Visitors to the Straits area can now take an audio, historical tour of Mackinaw City, simply by dialing a number and listening in on their cell phones.
The faces are mostly serious, eyes often looking straight at you, color used in a wonderful play of light and shadow. Six portraits have already sold, most to private collectors for a price of at least a thousand dollars apiece. They fund a new scholarship for baristas.
Points North
An artist prepares her portfolio and delivers it to a gallery in Chicago. But, without looking up, the woman at the desk drops the portfolio into the wastebasket and says, "Thank you." We talk with a few artists who have broken through that iron canvas to eke out a living in art, live Friday at 9:00am.
If you toss the peanut butter jar because you just don't feel like cleaning it out to recycle it... you're not alone.
