Lower mortgage interest rates offered in 8 Michigan cities
LANSING – Michigan is helping provide lower interest rates to first-time homebuyers in eight cities. About 300 individual or families in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Pontiac, Saginaw, Battle Creek,...
View ArticleAttracting young professionals to small cities
There’s a new effort underway to make smaller Michigan cities more attractive to young professionals. After college, many up and coming young professionals are drawn to the big cities where the...
View ArticlePrison museum in Jackson offers a "captivating" experience
This Saturday, a unique museum experience will open in Michigan. “Cell Block 7” at the state prison in Jackson will officially open to the public. The museum is located in the old Southern Michigan...
View ArticleA delicate piece of art history in Jackson, Michigan is geting a little help
A piece of Jackson’s art history, which narrowly avoided the wrecking ball, may soon have new life. The 28' x 9' glass mural depicting the history of electric power hung in Consumers Energy’s old...
View ArticleJackson's hottest August 5 vote centers on an unusual controversy
Jackson voters face a controversial ballot question next week. They will decide Tuesday if they want to pay a new fee to have their leaves collected. In 2011, the Jackson City Council created a fee to...
View ArticleDiscovering Michigan's hidden gems: Cascade Falls in Jackson
We recently asked people on our Facebook page for their ideas about hidden gems in Michigan. One of the answers was the Cascade Falls in Jackson . The landmark was created in the 1930s by a local...
View ArticleJackson's 'Field of Dreams'?
Backers of a plan to bring pro-baseball to downtown Jackson may make their pitch official this week. The group behind the ballpark plan isn’t saying much just yet. But they do have a website. It says...
View ArticleSaving the Cascades Falls, by tearing down part of the Jackson landmark
The nearly $10 million renovation of the Cascades Falls in Jackson begins Monday. The colorful fountains were built during the height of the Great Depression. The Falls was the brainchild of William...
View ArticleFormer priest charged in sexual assault of boys 3 decades ago
A former priest, teacher and wrestling coach at a Michigan Catholic school has been charged with sexually assaulting several boys more than three decades ago. State Attorney General Bill Schuette says...
View ArticleOther election results around Michigan
LANSING A pair of Lansing city council members won their re-election bids, as a third fell to a political newcomer. Incumbent Carol Wood picked up the most votes for an at-large city council seat....
View ArticleFinding ways to help people find the answers they need
University of Michigan officials are expanding a unique program aimed at finding high tech solutions to low tech problems. The U of M School of Information has been working in Jackson for the past few...
View ArticleJackson County reports spike in Legionnaire's disease cases
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) - Health officials in Jackson County are reporting twice as many cases of Legionnaires' disease so far this year as they've had in any of the past five years. The Jackson County...
View ArticleCity of Jackson adopts LGBT non-discrimination protections
The Jackson City Council has voted 5-2 to expand its non-discrimination ordinance to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. The new ordinance bars discrimination against LGBT people in housing,...
View ArticleJackson city council takes up challenge to anti-discrimination ordinance
This week, the Jackson city council takes up a challenge to an ordinance barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The council approved the ordinance in February, but...
View ArticleJackson city council member wants to discuss city clerk's "job performance"...
Jackson city council member Dan Greer is criticizing the city clerk for mishandling petition signatures that caused a petition challenging the city of Jackson’s non-discrimination ordinance to be...
View ArticleTouring Michigan’s oldest prison with a historian who lives there
In the first half of the 1800s, the city of Jackson fought hard for the right to build the state's first prison. The horrific conditions that developed at the prison from its gritty early days are well...
View ArticleINTERACTIVE MAP: More than half of cities with lead pipes on GLWA don't know...
There are lead service lines in older communities across Michigan. Because of their age and population size, it’s fair to say the bulk of Michigan’s lead service lines are in cities in Southeast...
View ArticleMichigan voters approve major school bond proposals, recall anti-Muslim...
Voters went to the polls yesterday in several cities across the state, including Jackson, Kalamazoo and Kalkaska. Michigan Radio’s senior news analyst Jack Lessenberry and Morning Edition host Doug...
View ArticleMajor I-94 construction project starts Monday in Jackson Co.
A massive $110 million road construction project kicks off Monday on a nine mile stretch of I-94 in the Jackson area. The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to reconstruct 1.4 miles of freeway...
View ArticleDetroit’s annual Concert of Colors inspires sister festival in Jackson
This week brings the 26th go-round for Detroit's annual Concert of Colors presented by the Arab American National Museum. The event starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday. It celebrates cultural...
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