
Zena Issa
Newsroom & Stateside InternZena is a senior at the University of Michigan with aspirations of becoming a broadcast journalist. She is interning in the Michigan Public newsroom and with Stateside.
-
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed bills meant to help parents comply with Michigan's laws on safe gun storage.
-
Business leaders and economists are on the lookout for how President Donald Trump’s plans will affect the state, especially the manufacturing sector.
-
An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study highlights that not only a vehicle's speed, but also the height of its front, significantly affects the severity of pedestrian injuries in crashes.
-
Dozens of Michigan municipalities are fighting a state order that lays out how large renewable energy projects could move forward, even if local governments reject them.
-
The Leapfrog Group's recent safety report gives Detroit Receiving Hospital and Sinai-Grace Hospital at DMC "F" grades, citing serious patient safety concerns.
-
Froggy Transportation has a 14-passenger shuttle service that connects Toledo and Detroit Metro Airport with three trips a day.
-
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his return to the White House, advocates for immigrants say his mass deportation plan threatens to disrupt Michigan's vital migrant workforce. They say local protections may provide some safeguards, but say many immigrants in Michigan, both documented and undocumented, are anxious about the future of their families and livelihoods.
-
For the past year, the violence and destruction in Gaza has dominated the headlines. The Uncommitted Movement began here as a desperate plea from pro-Palestinian voters seeking to have their voices heard. Not only did they force elected officials to listen, but they made history. What the Vote? looked at how they did it—and what happens now.
-
Michigan's vulnerable students, particularly those with disabilities and from low income families, experience higher rates of chronic absenteeism when compared to the statewide average.
-
The Wayne County prosecutor says there's insufficient evidence to charge protesters arrested when officers cleared an encampment at Wayne State in support of Palestinians.