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Details on police breaking up the encampment at University of Michigan, a love connection via Lake Michigan, and a Michigan author's latest murder mystery.

Thoughts on the president's weekend visit to Detroit, and Detroit’s new population stats. Schools observe more cannabis access among young people since recreational use was legalized. And novelist Debra Payne brings us a story of connection and renewal set in Northern Michigan.

The federal government's settlement made to sex abuse survivors for failing to stop Larry Nasser sooner, a book that investigates the economic experiences of five working class families, and a trip to multi-disciplinary artist Tiff Massey's studio in Detroit.

How Toledo is preparing for next week's solar eclipse, honoring the life and legacy of poet and activist John Sinclair, a novelist's contemporary riff on Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," and a documentary on jazz from Detroit premiering at the Detroit Free Press Film Festival.

Lawmakers revive debate over toll roads, an original production telling the stories of survivors of gender-based violence, and a biography on Madonna.

The Latinx community in Grand Rapids has over 100 years of history. Delia Fernández-Jones’ new book, Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan, explores that history and community in depth.

How new vehicles collect data and how that data can be sold to insurance companies, a trip to a Yemini coffee roastery in Dearborn, and a biography on Magic Johnson detailing his childhood in Lansing and time at Michigan State.

“The Future,” a new speculative novel by the Montreal-based writer Catherine Leroux, reimagines what Detroit would be like today if the French had never ceded the city to the British in 1760.

A catch-up on automotive no-fault insurance reform bills and other legislative news, a speculative fiction novel imagining a world where the French never ceded Detroit, and a conversation with the Detroit-based painter, educator, activist who has recently won the 2024 Kresge Eminent Artist Award.

In her new novel "The Waters," writer Bonnie Jo Campbell takes readers to a witchy wetland on the westside of Michigan. Stateside spoke with Campbell about the women of this community and what her writing process looks like.