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密歇根新闻广播 备受争议的赶走租户问题
Tenants who try to fight an eviction can quickly get caught up in bewildering legal issues. According to recent reporting from The Detroit News's Christine MacDonald, only 4.4% of renters show up in court with a lawyer. That's compared to the 83% of
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密歇根新闻广播 诗人对婚姻和母性的理解
In her new collection of poems, Goodbye Toothless House, Michigan writer Kelly Fordon takes aim at the idealized facade of marriage and motherhood. Ann Arbor-based poet and writer Keith Taylor has this review for us. Listen above to hear Keith Taylor
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密歇根新闻广播 美国的社会科学课程都学些啥
This week, the public can start weighing in on the latest draft of revised social studies standards for Michigan's K-12 schools. The standards lay out guidelines on what content should be covered in social studies classes and lessons for different gr
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密歇根新闻广播 用粉笔在轮胎上做印记遭禁止
Tire chalking by police is now banned in Michigan, a decision the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made Monday. A lawyer, whose client has $180 in separately issued fines, argued that this practice violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against
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密歇根新闻广播 从弗林特水危机中采集的老物件
On April 25th, 2014, officials switched Flint's drinking water supply from the Detroit city system to the Flint River. Without proper corrosion control treatment, the river water corroded the city's pipes, leaching lead into the drinking water of tho
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密歇根新闻广播 惨遭驱逐的移民家庭将面临什么
Two years ago, we shared with you the story of a young immigrant in Grand Rapids. Brandon Reyes is part of a generation of immigrants known as dreamers, who arrived in the United States as children. At six years old, I had no idea what were the laws
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密歇根新闻广播 让我们剖析heck这个词
Some of us can't resist muttering or shouting our language's strongest words in moments of anger, pain or shock. However, we also realize there are situations that require us to keep our vocabulary clean. Fortunately, there's a variety of alternative
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密歇根新闻广播 诗人对变老的理解
Jack Ridl taught for several decades at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He was a tremendously successful professor of literature and creative writing. He won state and national awards for his teaching. He left a legacy that most people would have
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密歇根新闻广播 剖析密歇根乡村和城市的婴儿死亡率
Nearly seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan will not live to their first birthday. That rate is more than double when it comes to African American and Native American infants. As part of its new effort to move the needle on infant mortali
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密歇根新闻广播 让我疑惑的引号问题
In writing, punctuation makes it easy to see when the writer is quoting someone else. What's interesting is that we've figured out a way to incorporate that punctuation into our speech. This week's topic comes from a listener who asked about saying q
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密歇根新闻广播 探访也门裔美国人
Our state is home to the nation's largest population of Yemeni Americans. But what attracted Yemeni immigrants to Michigan in the first place? For many, the driver was economic opportunity, particularly the kind that could be found while sailing the
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密歇根新闻广播 边缘化社区与环境保护
The environmental justice movement aims to address the disproportionate impact that environmental degradation has on people of color, the economically disadvantaged, and indigenous groups. Mustafa Santiago Ali spent more than two decades at the U.S.
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密歇根新闻广播 "铁罐游客"的大功劳
In the early 1900s, not long after the invention of the automobile, people began hitching trailers to their bumpers for road trips around the country. Historian and blogger Mickey Lyons and the Michigan History Center's Rachel Clark join Stateside to
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密歇根新闻广播 美国穆斯林人的喜剧人生
His slogan is: Chemical engineer by day, funny guy by night. Abdallah Jasim found his footing in the comedy scene after posting a video about how Arabs catch mice went viral. Since his viral debut, Jasmin has found a following for his comical Instagr
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密歇根新闻广播 回答一些经常让我们迷糊的问题
We get tons of great questions about language from our listeners. The problem is we only get to answer one or two per week. This week, we're doing things a little differently. We give you the That's What They Say lightning round. Question 1: What's t
