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Last Tuesday was National Radio Day! How do I know? I saw it on Facebook, of course, which is where everyone who is younger than me seems to get all their…
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The Boy Scouts of America recently reaffirmed their ban on allowing openly gay boys to participate in Boy Scouts, and openly gay or lesbian adults from…
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Last week, a bomb threat called in from Canada shut down the tunnel that runs under the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor. The tunnel is the…
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In my large Irish family, our stories get better with age. It’s not that we lie about what’s happened to us, but when we get together for holidays or…
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Being married to someone in the news business isn’t easy. Our spouses deal with our long hours and travel, our preoccupation with news when we’re at home,…
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“Well it’s been a quiet a week in my hometown…”Fans of A Prairie Home Companion will recognize those words as the opening to Garrison Keillor’s weekly…
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It happens. Sometimes my newsroom misses a story, or we don’t staff a press conference. Every once in a while it’s because we didn’t know about it, but…
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I always enjoy the holiday related updates I get from friends and relatives at this time of year. Some send old fashioned Christmas cards, others send…
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I received an email last week from a listener angry enough to write the most common threat I hear from Michigan Radio listeners, “I will never donate to…
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Lots of media outlets in Southeast Michigan reported yesterday that University of Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez had been fired. It wasn’t a…