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密歇根新闻广播 人性化的流程让事情变得简单
Filling out applications for government assistance programs, like Medicaid or food stamps, can be a lengthy and confusing process. In Michigan, it used to involve filling out a 42-page form that, among other highly-specific questions, asked applicant
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密歇根新闻广播 加州撤销与大麻相关罪行
There are roughly 50,000 people in Michigan who have been convicted of cannabis-related crimes. Now that voters have legalized recreational marijuana, advocates are working to get those convictions cleared. That same process began in California after
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密歇根新闻广播 通过民间音乐寻找社区之间的联系
The Reverend Robert Jones and Matt Watroba first met while hosting back-to-back music shows at a public radio station in Detroit. That chance encounter bloomed into a friendship rooted in a mutual love for acoustic roots music that's still going stro
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密歇根新闻广播 钓鱼者的新爱好
You see it all the time in city streams and rivers: all kinds of trash, much of it plastic, bobbing along the edge of the water. You know it's not right. You wonder how it got there. And you wonder what can be done about it. One group of volunteers h
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密歇根新闻广播 needs washed 语法结构
Have you ever heard of the needs washed construction? That's when the verb need is followed by a past participle like washed or fixed without to be. For example, That dish needs washed. Two listeners recently wrote to us about this. One says she star
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密歇根新闻广播 林璎从五大湖汲取的灵感
The artist and architect Maya Lin is best known for her work designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Lin designed that monument in 1981 when she was still a college senior. Since then, she's gone on to design numerous buildings, sc
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密歇根新闻广播 像规范烟草一样规范电子烟
The popularity of vaping among teenagers is going up. A University of Michigan study found there were 1.3 million more high school users in the U.S. in 2018 than in 2017. Here in Michigan, two bills that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes and other v
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密歇根新闻广播 密歇根学校没有遵守反欺凌法
Bullying is serious issue in schools across the country. Severe bullying can have long-term effects on the victims. Michigan law requires school districts to have anti-bullying policies and to investigate and report cases. But when Lansing State Jour
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密歇根新闻广播 countless这个词怎么用?
Grammarians sometimes worry about whether you can count the things to which a noun refers. And no, we're not talking about less and fewer. Today we're talking about countless. A listener named Paul wrote to us and asked, When did 'countless' start to
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密歇根新闻广播 执法机构真的可以使用脸部识别技术吗?
U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Justin Amash raised questions this week in a hearing about the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies, including Detroit Police Department. The hearing was held Wednesday by the U.S. House Commit
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密歇根新闻广播 早教有益终身
High-quality early childhood education can have benefits that extend generations. That's according to some of the latest research on the Perry Preschool Project. The study took place in Ypsilanti in the 1960s, and offered a high-quality preschool pro
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密歇根新闻广播 汽车保险出新规
A recent study by the University of Michigan found auto insurance rates are unaffordable for residents in 97% of Michigan counties. The high rates are especially tough on low-income residents in Detroit, where auto insurance rates average $5,414 a ye
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密歇根新闻广播 莱斯切诺群岛纪念著名自然学家
This week marks the fifth annual Leopold Festival, an event that takes place on the Les Cheneaux Islands in honor of Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of wildlife ecology and a dedicated conservationist. Leopold spent a large part of his childhood on
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密歇根新闻广播 重要的事情说两遍?
The Rio Grande is certainly a grand river. But not everyone thinks it's grand enough to be called river twice, as in the Rio Grande River. In case you're not up on your Spanish, saying Rio Grande River is redundant, since rio means river. This phrase
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密歇根新闻广播 克利夫兰骑士队迎来新教练
When U of M men's basketball coach John Beilein announced he was leaving Ann Arbor for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, I was as shocked as anyone. But once the dust settled, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel had to make the most important decisi
