© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsTresa Baldas | Detroit Free PressWhen first hit metro Detroit, hospitals urged sick people to stay away.Now they're saying come back because the original message, compounded with fears, came with a cost:Heart attack victims died at home. Stroke patients let symptoms go unchecked for too long. Fractures from falls were left untreated and worsened.This, doctors say, is fallout from COVID-19, a virus that has people so scared that they're letting...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsTresa Baldas | Detroit Free PressWhen first hit metro Detroit, hospitals urged sick people to stay away.Now they're saying come back because the original message, compounded with fears, came with a cost:Heart attack victims died at home. Stroke patients let symptoms go unchecked for too long. Fractures from falls were left untreated and worsened.This, doctors say, is fallout from COVID-19, a virus that has people so scared that they're letting...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsThe in downtown Detroit is down to its final seven patients.  According to Michelle Grinnell, a spokesperson for the facility, the field hospital stopped last week after health officials and hospital leadership noted “health data improvements” and a “reduction in hospital surge capacity overload” across Michigan.   Lynn Torossian, the field hospital’s CEO, says it’s time for the state to devote attention...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsThe in downtown Detroit is down to its final seven patients.  According to Michelle Grinnell, a spokesperson for the facility, the field hospital stopped last week after health officials and hospital leadership noted “health data improvements” and a “reduction in hospital surge capacity overload” across Michigan.   Lynn Torossian, the field hospital’s CEO, says it’s time for the state to devote attention...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsA circuit court judge has to process a backlog of more than 1,000 absentee ballot applications by the end of the weekend.Thanks to , Michigan voters can vote absentee in the 40 days before an election, either at home by mail or in person at the local voters’ clerk's office.  The ACLU of Michigan brought the lawsuit against the city clerk last week after multiple Flint voters claimed they had not received the absentee ballots they...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsA circuit court judge has to process a backlog of more than 1,000 absentee ballot applications by the end of the weekend.Thanks to , Michigan voters can vote absentee in the 40 days before an election, either at home by mail or in person at the local voters’ clerk's office.  The ACLU of Michigan brought the lawsuit against the city clerk last week after multiple Flint voters claimed they had not received the absentee ballots they...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsLabs that process COVID-19 tests in Michigan are taking several days to get results back to nursing homes, according to the state health department. More facilities are testing residents and staff in order to comply with a from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.  That order requires facilities with active COVID-19 cases to test staff and residents weekly until 14 days have passed since the last positive test....…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsLabs that process COVID-19 tests in Michigan are taking several days to get results back to nursing homes, according to the state health department. More facilities are testing residents and staff in order to comply with a from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.  That order requires facilities with active COVID-19 cases to test staff and residents weekly until 14 days have passed since the last positive test....WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsGovernor Gretchen Whitmer has signed an executive order extending Michigan's through May 28. It was previously set to expire after May 15.Under this order, Michigan residents will not be able to leave their homes except for essential reasons, such as picking up food or medical supplies, outdoor activities, a medical emergency, or to go to specified jobs.Whitmer also announced that Michigan is in Phase 3 of her new MI Safe Start Plan to...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsGovernor Gretchen Whitmer has signed an executive order extending Michigan's through May 28. It was previously set to expire after May 15.Under this order, Michigan residents will not be able to leave their homes except for essential reasons, such as picking up food or medical supplies, outdoor activities, a medical emergency, or to go to specified jobs.Whitmer also announced that Michigan is in Phase 3 of her new MI Safe Start Plan to...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsUpdated July 14 at 4:52 p.m.One man is dead and another is hospitalized after an argument over wearing a face mask at a mid-Michigan convenience store.Tuesday morning, a man refusing to wear a mask stabbed a mask-wearing man in the store parking lot, just south of Lansing.A short time later, an Eaton County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed 43-year-old Sean Ruis as he came at her with a knife and screwdriver.The chain of events left Eaton County...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsUpdated July 14 at 4:52 p.m.One man is dead and another is hospitalized after an argument over wearing a face mask at a mid-Michigan convenience store.Tuesday morning, a man refusing to wear a mask stabbed a mask-wearing man in the store parking lot, just south of Lansing.A short time later, an Eaton County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed 43-year-old Sean Ruis as he came at her with a knife and screwdriver.The chain of events left Eaton County...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsLakes Michigan and Huron have been at record levels for each month so far this year. But water levels are expected to decline before they reach the all-time high water mark.Great Lakes water levels fluctuate throughout the year, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tracks records for each month.“So far in 2020, the first six months of the year, each of those monthly mean water levels were a record high based on our period of record that goes...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsLakes Michigan and Huron have been at record levels for each month so far this year. But water levels are expected to decline before they reach the all-time high water mark.Great Lakes water levels fluctuate throughout the year, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tracks records for each month.“So far in 2020, the first six months of the year, each of those monthly mean water levels were a record high based on our period of record that goes...WW…

WUOMFMConsumers Energy is hoping to slash what it pays rooftop solar customers for the electricity they produce. The utility wants to compensate those customers 46% less for their electricity than what it currently charges. Margrethe Kearney is with the Environmental Law and Policy Center. She says rooftop solar customers are actually entitled to more, not less, than the utility's own rate. That's because rooftop solar electricity is used locally. "It keeps you [Consumers Energy] from having to send it [electricity] to my neighbor from some power station miles away, " says Kearney. "So it's...…WUOMFMConsumers Energy is hoping to slash what it pays rooftop solar customers for the electricity they produce. The utility wants to compensate those customers 46% less for their electricity than what it currently charges. Margrethe Kearney is with the Environmental Law and Policy Center. She says rooftop solar customers are actually entitled to more, not less, than the utility's own rate. That's because rooftop solar electricity is used locally. "It keeps you [Consumers Energy] from having to send it [electricity] to my neighbor from some power station miles away, " says Kearney. "So it's...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsGrand Rapids police officer unions are pushing back Three city commissioners in Grand Rapids have already said they support cutting the Grand Rapids Police Department’s budget by $9.4 million in the upcoming fiscal year.The police officer’s union says a cut of that size would almost certainly mean layoffs for dozens of police officers."They're looking at potentially losing their jobs for doing their jobs," says Geoff Collard of the Grand Rapids...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsGrand Rapids police officer unions are pushing back Three city commissioners in Grand Rapids have already said they support cutting the Grand Rapids Police Department’s budget by $9.4 million in the upcoming fiscal year.The police officer’s union says a cut of that size would almost certainly mean layoffs for dozens of police officers."They're looking at potentially losing their jobs for doing their jobs," says Geoff Collard of the Grand Rapids...WW…

© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsUpdated:  6/18/2020Sixty eight people have died of COVID-19 so far in Michigan prisons, according to the It's the second highest number of COVID-19 related deaths in a state prison system in the country, according to the non-profit , which is tracking the cases. Ohio is number one for COVID-19 related inmate deaths.Advocates for inmates and prison reform say it shows that Michigan is not working fast enough to reduce the prison population,...…© 2022 MICHIGAN RADIO91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 FlintPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsUpdated:  6/18/2020Sixty eight people have died of COVID-19 so far in Michigan prisons, according to the It's the second highest number of COVID-19 related deaths in a state prison system in the country, according to the non-profit , which is tracking the cases. Ohio is number one for COVID-19 related inmate deaths.Advocates for inmates and prison reform say it shows that Michigan is not working fast enough to reduce the prison population,...WW…