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Today, what Michigan voters hope the next president will do to help the economy. Also, studying up on candidates for the Detroit School board.Then, hurricane storm damage throws Michigan’s supply of needed synthetic medical fluids into turmoil. And, how a tradition of community service made Black sororities and fraternities an election force to be reckoned with.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she hopes tougher laws will help stem the growth of threats and violence against health care workers.

Allegations of a Catholic medical clinic denying care for a transgender girl, a new podcast series covering the disappearance of gay Black men in Hollywood, the upcoming sale of the Toonerville Trolley and Tahquamenon Falls Riverboat Tours, and an interview with the oldest chicken in the world.

Bill would expand insurance coverage for emergency and out-of-network mental health and substance use services.

Over-earning and out-of-date paperwork causes many to lose Medicaid coverage.

Members of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration are out this summer trying to build support for recommendations from a task force to close race disparities in health care.

The shortages will be nearly universal, a new report predicts, but especially acute in rural areas.

Doctors with the McLaren and Corewell healthcare systems say they've seen an increase in ER visits and hospitalizations for air-quality related illnesses.

Those whose coverage would otherwise end June 30 will now have until the end of July to re-enroll.

Stateside spoke with Nikia Parker, an ER nurse and paramedic in the Traverse City area, about the conditions of being an ER nurse today, how those conditions have caused so many nurses to leave the field, and what this all means for patient care.