The Michigan Senate gaveled out Friday following a marathon 30-hour session that wrapped up the Legislature’s work for the year as well as Democrats’ complete control of the state Capitol.

On today's show, we ring in the holiday weekend with a playlist of Christmas tunes by Michigan artists.

A new year is a fresh opportunity to take control of our time, but a lot of hacks don't actually help us prioritize and focus.

Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, the book's tale of miserly Scrooge and the ghosts that transformed him transformed the holiday too, especially in the U.S.

Two books take dramatically different approaches to the Christmas story.

This is the last cartoon of the year, and typically I try to ease off a bit, maybe go with something lighter and more universally appealing. What I came up with, however, is pretty inside politics. Ah, well... it's a political cartoon, right?

Voice actor, filmmaker, and Michigander Niigaanii-Animikii Inini Kalvin Hartwig talked to us about his part in the new Anishinaabemowin-dubbed version of Star Wars: A New Hope.

A judge has refused to allow the Oxford High School shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.

The Michigan House session fizzled to a close Thursday as Democratic leaders failed to muster a quorum to conduct business.

There were two human cases in the state earlier this year. But this isn't something the general public needs to be concerned about right now, the state's top medical official said.

The university prohibits drones over its property and the Michigan Coalition of Drone Operators is suing over the restriction.

In today’s book-centric episode, an artistic opera director’s opinion on how to keep opera alive. Additionally, a Michigan native is publishing a book about Black thinkers and their manifestation of Black utopias amid deprivation and repression. Then, an Ann Arbor novelist discusses her second novel.