April Baer

Are you on SNAP? Here are resources to get help SNAP benefits will not be distributed starting November 1 due to the federal government shutdown. Here are some resources if you or someone you know needs food assistance.

Helpful page from our digital department with help finding food in Michigan - maps and other tools. Also helpful if you’d like to give right now to keep food resources available.
www.michiganpublic.org/economy/2025...

News organizations refuse to comply with restrictive new Pentagon policy NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman is turning in his press pass, but won't stop reporting. Major news organizations are rejecting a restrictive new policy around covering the Department of Defense.

In case you’re wondering how @npr.org is handling the Pentagon’s new restrictions on reporting. We’re in the upside down now. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

In Michigan, a state senator and the Lt Governor - both Democrats - were subject to separate bomb threats in the past 24 hrs.

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

REUTERS: Trump official Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers
www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...

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Young adults convicted of murder get second chance, but wounds reopened for victims’ families A series of Michigan Supreme Court rulings are giving people convicted of murder as young adults the chance at resentencing, sparking hope for some and fear for others.

Insightful work from Zena Issa on several hundred cases eligible for resentencing and all the unique lives involved
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

My station isn’t going anywhere, but ask yourself if yanking funding for public media is doing the right thing by communities like Paisley, Oregon, where people rely on each other and broadband is not an option.

He was on the air in the mornings, playing old-time music and delivering critical weather and community information in a place where attend a regional boarding school, and ranchers, and died by the weather.

Back in 2015 I met this smooth-talking cowboy in the broadcast booth at KPAI,  a station serving a town of fewer than 500 people in southern Oregon.

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

As the great @margaretatwood.bsky.social once said, “Roll up your sleeves, girls”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the field today with city of #Detroit historian @jamonjordan for a project we’re very excited to bring you this summer.. Subscribe to our podcast feed so you won’t miss the drop…also be sure to follow Jamon, who is seriously a national treasure, in addition to all his other titles.

The Senate is debating the recission bill that would claw back appropriations for foreign aid and public broadcasting, if you care to watch on C-Span.

www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Incredible honor to represent my @michiganpublic Stateside team at @allwomeninmedia #theGracies50 - auspicious company like this is nourishment

House approves Trump's request to cut funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid The House has voted to cut about $9.4 billion in spending as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was oversee...

This happened today. Please consider calling your Senator, especially if you think he or she might be on the fence.

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Talk to someone who’s there if you want to know what’s up.

Watching LA makes me think of everything that was going on in Portland during the first term. People from outside Oregon kept asking me the same question and I felt like a broken record: legal protest. These are legal protests.

Ohhhh this is fascinating

Breaking.

Judge strikes down Michigan abortion restrictions The ruling says Michigan's voter-backed constitutional amendment means the state's abortion protections go even beyond Roe v. Wade.

Big Court of Claims decision for #abortion protections in #Michigan (and great work by my rock star colleague Kate Wells) www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...

The way this sounds written out…

What’s one more big breaking story today?

Mistrial: Jury deadlocked in former GRPD officer Schurr trial Christopher Schurr killed Patrick Lyoya during a struggling that began as a traffic stop in April, 2022. The jury deliberated for a little more than two days.

Breaking: jury deadlocks on criminal trial of former police Christopher Schurr, for the killing of Patrick Lyoya

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

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New this week: Born to Chinese parents living in South Korea, Michelle Yang's life turned upside down when she was 9, and her family moved to the U.S. Her new memoir, Phoenix Girl sticks 3 landings: reckoning with bipolar, redefining body image, and finding community I LOVED THIS BOOK.

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Thank you, Kara. You made our team’s day ♥️

Umich president is headed for Florida

This series is going to give me a stroke

What a 4th quarter. #Pistons

Yes, I’m a jackass but I need, >need<, NEED Pistons announcers to stop saying Shrooder.