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: 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...
Created Equal, Season 2: ACLU’s Curt Guyette On Running His Own Flint Water Tests
"The question became: How do you get to what is going on conclusively? I proposed: Do our own tests." -...
Created Equal, Season 2: Stephen Henderson on How Disinvestment, Poverty and Emergency Management Created a Crisis
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson, "Created Equal" pulls apart the strings of inequality that run through the American...
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...
After the Battle, Veterans Take On Substance Abuse and Depression
Suicide rates are rising. Among the groups most at-risk are veterans. Tara Consolino is the Director of Suicide Prevention and...
Electrical Grid Resilience In The Age Of Climate Change
If you’ve been paying attention to national news for the last couple of weeks, you have undoubtedly heard about the...
