Transportation

Coverage of transit solutions, including public transportation, bikes, buses, light rail, commuter trains, and ferries, especially those intended to reduce congestion, improve air quality, and provide efficient movement across a metropolitan area.

Dr. Jeanette Roberts started Robert's Veterinary Services in 2021.

Local veterinarian’s in-home service offers more comfortable option for pet owners saying goodbye

Whether they are man’s best friend or any other animal, it can be extremely painful to say goodbye to a pet. Helping during these difficult transitions, local veterinarian Dr. Jeanette […]

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New wine from Michigan Wine Collaborative to raise funds for inclusion efforts in the industry

“The DREAM Project is an important step in the unification of the Michigan wine industry providing opportunity and awareness to all people and a starting point for universal access to what Michigan wine offers in both employment and enjoyment of Michigan wine for all people,” says Chuck Jackson, chairman of the MWC’s Inclusion and Expansion Committee.

Jenifer Murray, a contracted grant coordinator with Munson Healthcare, works on programs for new parents in her office.
Northern Michigan works to build supportive services for parents in “maternity care deserts”

Many in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula live in areas with a serious lack of resources, facilities, and practitioners for pregnant people, new parents, and infants.

Third-grade students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy in Detroit trying a yummy fruity roll-up tasting.
Detroit Public Schools Community District Farm-to-School initiatives grow through SNAP-Ed

The DPSCD Farm-to-School initiative increases the amounts of locally grown fruits, vegetables, and legumes used in school breakfasts and lunches.

An up-close look at a bus charging connection.
Electric school buses roll into rural Michigan

Rural school districts across Michigan are poised to receive electric school buses, aimed at reducing emissions and improving the environment.  

Lynn Hendges, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services manager of housing and homeless services.
New data management tool aims to help medically vulnerable Michiganders escape homelessness

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is developing a standardized, statewide indicator to track not only an individual's homelessness risk but also their medical fragility. 

2022 trends in remote employment

Several notable shifts are occurring in the remote employment landscape have occurred, according to a digital team that support the training of graduates seeking work-from-home jobs.

Issue Media Group relaunches Upper Peninsula publication

Issue Media Group is excited to announce the relaunch of its online, community-informed, digital publication in the Upper Peninsula. UPword will focus on innovation, talent, entrepreneurship, social innovation, and community development, while featuring U.P.-based talent.

Muskegon County Airport (MKG) will offer 36 nonstop, round-trip flights per week to Chicago O’Hare International Airport through Southern Airways Express starting Oct. 1. (Nenyedi/WikiMedia Commons)
More flights to Chicago coming to Muskegon County Airport

Muskegon County Airport (MKG) will offer 36 nonstop, round-trip flights per week to Chicago O’Hare International Airport through Southern Airways Express starting Oct. 1.

Charms of rural Michigan lure local back from across the pond

Though he learned much from his time living in England, Guy Stickler is grateful to be back raising his family in rural Millbrook Township and working as a Survey Project Manager for Rowe PSC in Mt. Pleasant.  

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