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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be onstage Thursday to deliver a speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Today, we talk with a BBC reporter who has been looking into Michigan’s history with women candidates, and what VP Harris can learn from these female leaders. Also, a conversation with writer, Craig Maki, on his new book telling the history of Detroit's first underground record label.

Dow is getting $120 million and tax exemptions as part of a package from the state of Michigan that Governor Gretchen Whitmer says will protect 5,000 jobs.

With President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the campaign, Democrats in Michigan and elsewhere are faced with choosing a new candidate for president.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer's new book. Meet a post-ironic candidate for Grand Rapids Mayor. As part of IPR's Stories That Heal, we heard about Diana Priest's journey with loss. And, a conversation with the owner of a new witchcraft-themed bar in Hamtramck.

Whitmer is a Biden booster and national campaign co-chair, and is in the awkward position of being atop lists of Democrats who could replace Biden on the party's ticket.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to toss a challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone is also important to upholding Michigan’s reproductive rights amendment.

The NFL draft set a new record in Detroit with over 775,000 fans in attendance, beating Nashville’s three-day attendance record of 600,000 set in 2019.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is traveling the state Friday and Saturday to stump for President Joe Biden’s reelection.

On Tuesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a pair of making it a misdemeanor to sell, or try to sell, devices used to help inhale nitrous oxide from canisters.