Each day, our Stateside team dug into the conversations that drive Michigan and broke them down for their daily show and their daily podcast. Here's the best of both for the last year.
What brightens up bleak winter days on the shores of the Great Lakes? Sea shanties and plenty of them. An unexpected flurry of sailing songs have been making the round on social media—most prominently on TikTok. Between our vibrant traditional folk scene and the state’s maritime history, Michigan has a few shanties of its own to sing. That canon includes songs sung by Black sailors on the Great Lakes—whose history has often been overlooked.
The pawpaw, an elusive and unique fruit native to the U.S.’s mid-Atlantic region, has been an important food to plenty of Native people for a very long time. But in modern times, it’s just now getting traction in the culinary scene. Today, we learn how to find, cook, and consume a pawpaw.
In the otherworldly deepwater of the Great Lakes, scientists make a big discovery about a tiny fish
Fisheries biologist David Jude has been studying a small prey fish called the deepwater sculpin for decades. And for years, there's been one question he couldn't stop thinking about. “I’ve always had this passion about trying to figure out where deepwater sculpin spawn because no one has ever documented it,” Jude said. It wasn't until just a few weeks ago that he finally got the answers he was looking for—600 feet underwater in the Grand Traverse Bay.
Twenty years after...
A newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses Novartis and Genentech of being at the center of a decades-long kickback scheme to promote their immunology med Xolair across dozens of states. Whist...