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State funding for economic development is a hot topic. Today, we get details on what companies starting EV battery plants in Michigan have delivered. Also, artist Elizabeth Youngblood talks about getting abstract forms to express an almost spiritual sense of time and change. And podcaster Courtney Andersen on upfront sobriety.

During this heatwave, how do we protect ourselves and loved ones? Also, a new exhibit exploring the interconnected history of African American culture and quilting. Plus, Karen McDonald talks about her work in preventing gun violence and the aftermath of the recent Rochester Hill's shooting.

More details on protests happening at the homes of University of Michigan regents. Then, rehabbing a folk art treasure, it’s a visit to Hamtramck Disneyland. And a check-in with the little girl who would not let the world look away from Flint during the water crisis.

The biggest takeaways from an annual report on racial disparities in educational outcomes for Michigan students. A preview of a trio of botanical art installations blooming in Detroit this spring and summer. Plus, the Michigan man behind one of the most iconic innovations in processed food - the Pop-Tart. And, just how warm will the Great Lakes get this summer.

A guide on how Michigan's legislature works, indigenous sugar bash practices, the over-assessment of Detroit's poorest properties, and the "art" of Zingerman's.

The many obstacles of restoring the rapids to Grand Rapids, the best advice on thinking big and insights from a Traverse City sculptor and painter.

Meet comic artist, Barbara Brandon-Croft, whose work was first featured in The Detroit Free Press in 1989. Her comic strip “Where I’m Coming From” ran until 2005.

Today, we talked basketball ahead of tonight's Sweet 16 game of Michigan State versus Kansas State. Then, a conversation about how ketamine — a hallucinogenic drug with origins in Detroit — might be used to treat a range of mental health disorders. Plus, a special visit to a Romulus collage artist's studio.

When Lorri Thomas became a tattoo artist in the mid-2000s, the industry was overwhelmingly male and white. She knew there had to be other Black women artists out there, so she set out to bring them together.

Detroit-based artist Mother Cyborg, AKA Diana Nucera, is a musician, technologist, organizer, and educator. This past summer she had a quilt exhibition, called Crafting Our Digital Legacy, at the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Gallery. We talked to her about the digital world, community organizing, and her artistic practice.