COVID-19
COVID-19 pro tip: keep your glasses from fogging
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Steamed by the precautions needed to limit the spread of the coronavirus? Check these tips for keeping your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask.
COVID-19
Michigan musicians reeling from closed venues take acts online
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Michigan musicians are struggling to stay afloat while in-person shows are canceled for the foreseeable future.
Echo
COVID-19 disrupts Great Lakes research, outreach
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Fieldwork, research conferences and outreach programs face an uncertain summer.
Recreation
Question mark hangs over that grand Michigan tradition: summer camp
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Summer camps are an $18 billion industry, according to the American Camp Assocation’s Business Report. Michigan has over 451 summer camps.
Boating
Boaters can get online education but hunters out of luck
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has canceled its in-person classes for outdoor safety certificates and is now offering only online courses.
COVID-19
Many university students don’t qualify for COVID aid
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If they are between 16 and 24 and their parents claim them as dependents, they don’t qualify for any check – including the $500 their parents get for younger dependents. Lawmakers are looking for a fix while some college students call foul.
COVID-19
Michigan residents want to both save and spend stimulus checks
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Whether you decide to save or spend your stimulus check will impact the economic recovery from the COVID-19 disaster. Some Michigan residents want to save it for tougher times, pay off debt, buy stuff or invest in bitcoin.
COVID-19
Comparing actions by Great Lakes states and spread of COVID-19
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The Michigan nonprofit news service Bridge reports: “Epidemiologists warn that it’s too early in the crisis to make conclusions, but some experts wonder if Michigan’s caseload would be different if public officials moved faster in the early days of the outbreak.”
Agriculture
Michigan’s migrant workers especially vulnerable to virus
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Migrant farm workers can’t practice social distancing.
Echo
Tough talk from a tough generation
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Echo tasked a group of young reporters with asking members of their grandparents’ generation how they are coping with the coronavirus. We wondered how this crisis compares to the significant social disruptions they’ve already weathered during their lifetimes.