Reporter's Notebook

Last week, Michigan Radio lost our friend and coworker, Mark Brush.Mark’s passion for journalism was evident in everything he produced. His 20 years at…

When Rachael Denhollander told her story to the Indianapolis Star in September 2016, none of us knew this would eventually become one of the largest cases…

Back in January of this year, when I first decided to embark on reporting about bottled water in Michigan, I had literally no idea what I was in for.…

Ten Julys ago, I sat down with my grandfather at his kitchen table for a conversation that went on for a couple of hours. It would be the first and last…

I am switching roles a bit at Michigan Radio. The change requires me to sell my lovely house in Grand Rapids to work out of Ann Arbor.I figured selling…

Reporter's NotebookI watched an old black man cry today.Sitting at a picnic table in Chandler Park, by census estimates the poorest area of the city of…

Tourism has exploded in Cuba since the Obama administration announced a resumption of diplomatic relations with the country in 2014.Danilo Gomez is a law…

Resourceful does not even begin to describe Cubans. There is not enough of anything in Cuba – food, money, freedom. So they make the most of what they…

Mercedes Mejia and I have been in Cuba for four days, long enough to have ridden a bus, taken a shared taxi, used the local currency, interviewed many…

I was still getting my bearings after arriving in Havana, when I spotted a chicken wandering the street. Nobody was chasing it with a frying pan. It…