Tracy Samilton
Energy and Transportation Reporter / ProducerTracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Public. She began her career at Michigan Public as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
She took over the auto beat in January, 2009, just a few months before Chrysler and General Motors filed for bankruptcy.
Tracy’s reports can frequently be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as on Michigan Public.
Her coverage of Michigan’s Detroit Three automakers has taken her as far as Germany, and China. Tracy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature.
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The University of Michigan will re-examine capital projects, ask departments to voluntarily rein in spending on travel, conferences, and consultants, and require new staff and faculty hires to be approved by the U of M President or his executive vice presidents to "buffer against negative, long-term impacts" of what are likely many orders for federal funding cuts ahead. -
The American Friends Service Committee says the Michigan Department of Corrections is violating state law, as well as human rights, by subjecting women prisoners to video recording during strip searches. -
The bill to subsidize two unprofitable legacy coal plants in Ohio keeps rising, and an advocacy group says it's time for the state legislature to act to relieve customers of the fees. -
People protested outside Tesla dealerships across the country on Saturday, including in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to urge a boycott of Tesla vehicles, home storage batteries and solar panels. -
Michigan health officials say the data show it's the worst flu season at least in the past ten years. -
The lawsuit led by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel alleges that President Donald Trump has unlawfully delegated executive authority to Elon Musk, who is using "seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce" in an move "antithetical to the nation’s entire constitutional structure.” -
Scammers are everywhere, and this reporter stumbled upon one scamming people who just want a chicken wings fix. -
President Donald Trump's imposition of 25% tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China may be sparking a trade war, and Michigan has more to lose than many other states in the U.S -
Resident physicians at Detroit Medical Center picketed outside Detroit Receiving Hospital Thursday, saying the health system is ignoring their union's demand to start contract talks. -
The Thomas More Society, a law firm that opposes abortion rights, asked Trump for 21 of the pardons. The group said the prosecutions were unjust.
