There's a bracing herbal, minty, chocolaty, funky, bitter Italian liqueur (an amaro) called Fernet Branca. It became wildly popular among people who work at bars. It's often used in cocktails, but if you're a bartender visiting another bar, your coll...
Michigan is dangerously short of COVID-19 test kits. And the tests themselves present all kinds of logistical problems for clinics and hospitals. As medical teams try to test the highest-risk, most urgent cases, drive-thru testing is popping up throu...
Wednesday afternoon, walk-in business at Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea is slow. Only a handful of customers trickle in to get a to-go coffee, while customers wait in a small lineup of cars outside in the drive-through. Franchise owner Kristin Jackson sa...
K-12 schools all over Michigan are closed due to COVID-19. But what about students who rely on school breakfast and lunch for their daily meals? Well different school districts have different solutions. New Faith Temple Church of God in Christ in sou...
The phrase head honcho is used to refer to people at the top: CEOs, presidents, directors and such. However, honcho on its own means leader. In other words, the head of something. That means, as is often the case in English, this commonly used phrase...
Houses of worship across Michigan are suspending in person services for the next several weeks to help combat the spread of COVID-19. The Imams Council of Michigan announced that Friday prayers would be cancelled at all mosques across the state for t...
The first two cases of COVID 19 were confirmed by the state late Tuesday night, leading Governor Gretchen Whitmer to declare a state of emergency. Multiple universities across the state have cancelled in-person classes through late April. As Michigan...
Many Michiganders have heard of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. It's been in the news most recently because of a petition drive to expand the law's protections to members of the LGBTQ community. But while Elliott-Larsen is a well-known piece of...
When you think about the census, you might picture people knocking on doors and canvassing neighborhoods. But the 2020 census will look a little different. The U.S. Census Bureau is trying to move the count online where people would fill out a digita...
Its tempting to parse the word ramshackle into two separate words, ram and shackle. A listener named Brian Van Drie wrote to us about how this word makes him think of a ram that is actually shackled and is making a mess of anything it can reach. We l...
