WCMU Highlights

EDP Renewables heard comment from dozens of people in a packed meeting room in Cheboygan Wednesday. The company wants to build a large-scale solar park, that has faced pushback.

Federal aid is just starting to trickle in from April flooding, but the toll is adding up. One school district is losing students because a washed-out bridge created bus detours, while Manistee County worries about costs.

The organization Michigan for Responsible Data Centers held a panel to educate the public on data center development. Attendees voiced frustrations about the discussion.

Nonnegotiable Michigan says it wants Abdul El-Sayed to be more conscious of how he criticizes Israel and its American lobby.

“It is either incompetence, corruption or both, and either one is disqualifying to be the governor of the state of Michigan."

After nine months of negotiation with hospital administrators, the nurses' union voted down the latest proposal from MyMichigan on Sept. 8. The three-day strike will start on Monday, Sept. 21.

In July, as wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota blanketed Michigan, air quality index readings in some areas of the state reached over 1,000, more than three times what the US Environmental Protection Agency considers hazardous.

Erin Bjerke and Laney Harsh of Mount Pleasant talk about how they learned about the attacks, how they felt and where to go from here for remembering the day.

In recent years, Michigan has expanded its free school meal program, spent more on schools and literacy coaches, and changed its literacy curriculum. Still, test scores are down.

The horse was from Roscommon County, the same county where Michigan's first human case of eastern equine encephalitissince 2021 was confirmed last month.