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Coping with Covid-19

Michigan customers support favorite businesses during COVID-19 crisis

By Ben Goldman | May 7, 2020

While Michigan businesses struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, loyal customers search for ways to help them out. Here’s a look at some of their stories.

Coping with Covid-19

New title brings new responsibilities

By Nyjah Bunn | May 6, 2020

Group home supervisor is an essential worker

Coping with Covid-19

Online grocery shopping is a coronavirus legacy

By Angela Mulka | May 6, 2020

Quarantine pushed Dow retiree to give it a try. Now he’s sold.

COVID-19

Covid-19 animal care: curbside service, pet supply delivery, video adoptions

By Taylor Haelterman | May 5, 2020

Animal-related organizations across the Great Lakes region face new challenges in caring for their critters in the midst of a pandemic.

Coping with Covid-19

An essential worker at the Family Dollar

By Nyjah Bunn | May 4, 2020

Manager worries about bringing COVID-19 home.

Coping with Covid-19

Life skills: skateboarding, art appreciation, relationship mending

By Morgan Duerdin | May 4, 2020

Tim Kohlstedt has a greater appreciation nowadays for the angst expressed in Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café: “Everyone in the painting is hunched over. It’s how the world is feeling right now.” 

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There’s a new kind of carp in the river and it’s huge

By Danielle James | May 1, 2020

The first invasive grass carp capable of reproducing in Michigan was caught this spring during an annual fish survey by the Department of Natural Resources.

Climate

Composting fabric fights climate change

By Ri’An Jackson | April 30, 2020

Instead of tossing that old t-shirt, use it to help plants grow.

COVID-19

Reporters find ways to get the newspaper out

By Joshua Valiquette | April 28, 2020

Journalists share about how they’re covering the COVID-19 pandemic and how it reinforces their sense of mission.

Land

Abandoned mines aplenty, but cash to clean, close them, scarcer

By Eric Freedman | April 27, 2020

Nobody knows how many abandoned mine features such as tunnels, shafts, pits and waste piles remain on federal land in Michigan and elsewhere, but untold numbers of them pose safety and environmental threats, a new General Accountability Office (GAO) report says.

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Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

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