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Polls are open until 8 p.m. across Michigan for Election Day. Here's how to find your polling place, register to vote today and make sure your ballot counts.
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Election Day is Nov. 3, and with that comes an opportunity to display your civic participation via one of several “I Voted” stickers. Here are the options. -
People working the phone banks focused on making sure people in Wayne and Macomb counties had a plan to get to the polls and helping them create one if they didn’t already. -
Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers are competing for Michigan’s open Senate seat in a race that could help determine control of the chamber. -
Race calls are a critical part of election night and NPR partners with the Associated Press to make those calls. Here's how we do it. -
MSU's policy was updated last spring and now includes a clause requiring trustees to support board decisions, which some view as a loyalty clause. -
Today on the show, a review of the Democratic Party kerfuffle caused by Congresswoman Haley Stevens. And, we celebrate the life of techno pioneer Juan Atkins who died over the weekend. -
Juan Atkins, who died at 64, is widely credited with creating and popularizing the genre of music out of Detroit known around the world as techno. -
Michigan Democrats are scrambling to refocus voters' attention and move past a stunning defection in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. -
Efforts to control the invasive "coiled menace" appear to be working, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. To keep the momentum going amid climate impacts, experts said continued research and investment is needed. -
The districts that will decide control of the House and Senate next year are spread across the country. Voting officials in those places may face scrutiny and pressure they've never experienced. -
Michigan lawmakers introduced legislation, Senate Bill 1035 and House Bill 6092, that would modernize the state’s 2001 post-conviction DNA testing law, which advocates say creates barriers for wrongfully convicted people seeking to prove their innocence. -
The Detroit Zoo is seeking a renewal of its millage, and the Charles Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Historical Society are seeking their first ever millage.
The Dish, hosted by Mercedes Mejia, brings you behind the scenes with Michigan’s most inspiring chefs and culinary talents. Learn how food connects these chefs to their cultures, and strengthens our communities, one dish at a time.
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Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, has stunned party officials by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers. -
Residents on this remote island say they're tired of national issues — but they'll vote on a school millage and local government races. -
Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 1. Here is when to set clocks back, the history of the time change, and where permanent daylight saving time bills stand. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking a rehearing with state utility regulators over the approval of an electric service contract for Google's hyperscale data center in Van Buren Township. -
An ad campaign targeting Black voters in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race has ties to a PR firm that was criticized for deceptive practices during the Flint water crisis.
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign in Detroit alongside former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens. This marks their first public appearance together in months. -
Michigan voters are deciding a long list of contests that could swing the balance of power in Washington as well as in the state capitol in Lansing. Michigan is a competitive electoral battleground with fiercely contested Senate and House seats at stake as well as the governor's office and the state Legislature.
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Better to encourage you to vote and let you decide what to do. (Still, to be clear, you should vote no on Proposal 1.) -
Michigan Public commentator John U. Bacon looks at Dan Campbell's latest gamble for the Lions, the cause of Michigan's offensive woes, and a happy day for Brewers fans. -
“We are reading the tea leaves on the messages that the Pentagon is putting out,” Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said. -
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Palisades may restart as soon as the end of the November during a visit to the plant in Covert Township this week. -
Gubernatorial candidate John James and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers are doing interviews, but they are being very selective about them. Why might that be? -
The Detroit Red Wings have suspended Dylan Larkin without pay and taken him off the roster after they said he told the team he will no longer play for the franchise. -
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