Tracy Samilton
Energy and Transportation Reporter / ProducerTracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Public. She began her career at Michigan Public as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
She took over the auto beat in January, 2009, just a few months before Chrysler and General Motors filed for bankruptcy.
Tracy’s reports can frequently be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as on Michigan Public.
Her coverage of Michigan’s Detroit Three automakers has taken her as far as Germany, and China. Tracy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature.
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Ann Arbor's primary election faceoff between long-tenured incumbent mayor Chris Taylor and repeat challenger Democratic Socialist Yousef Rabhi could be a close election, symbolizing either a rebuke or a favorable nod to dramatic changes in Ann Arbor since Taylor first took office. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel originally supported Consumers Energy's plan to sell its aging hydroelectric dams — if the utility met a list of conditions. She says the utility has said it won't, so she no longer supports the sale. -
State agencies issue permits for Line 5 tunnel under Straits of Mackinac; other permits sit in queueMichigan's environmental agency and its Department of Natural Resources, have issued two of the permits that are required for Enbridge Energy's proposed tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac. -
A bill that would ban the practice of using data from a consumer's shopping behavior as a factor in setting insurance rates has passed the Michigan Senate. -
Detroit officials are demanding that ICE stop what they say are unsafe, high-speed chases through city streets, attempting to apprehend people suspected of not having legal status in the U.S. -
An MSU professor of horticulture says established trees generally do fine during heat waves. But newly planted or young trees may need a helping hand. -
An analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank, finds that the eight largest corporate subsidies during the eight years of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's terms created only 3% of the expected number of jobs, so far. -
Michigan's 2011 fireworks law changed what kind of fireworks people could buy — and in some cases, when they could set them off. -
The Michigan Farmers Union says a decision that chemical manufacturer Bayer cannot be sued at the state level over its failure to warn consumers of cancer risks from Roundup "gives pesticide manufacturers protection while they actively risk the health of farmers across our state." -
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel will resign as of June 30. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Amy Epkey to serve as acting director of the agency.
