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Today, we talk about things to think about as Michigan contemplates changes with minimum wages for tipped workers. Also, writer Michael Spradlin on adapting the political run-up to the Third Reich into a story young people can grasp. Plus: chef Abra Berens has ideas about what to do with the insanely prolific bounteous harvest of Michigan fruit available at your grocery or farmers’ market.

During World War II, at many of of the Nazis’ death camps in Germany and Poland, musicians were forced to perform in prisoner orchestras. They arranged songs to suit the instruments they had available. Now, musicians from the University of Michigan are performing 10 of those songs in the way they would have been performed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Today on Stateside, four Michigan congressmen have signed on to a legal brief in support of a Texas lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to nullify Michigan’s…

The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps were brutal and violent places. By the end of the Holocaust, an estimated 1.1 million people died or were…

Today on Stateside, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D) on how a trade war with China is hurting Michigan businesses. Plus, Holocaust survivor Irene Butter…

A recent New York Times story published on Holocaust Remembrance Day bore a striking headline: "Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds."That survey…

Seventy five years ago, as of last December, the United States declared war on Germany during World War II. That declaration had a dramatic impact on a…

This week Governor Rick Snyder signed a bill adding genocide instruction to social studies curriculum in eighth grade through high school.Most people are…