Michigan Radio is the state's NPR station featuring local and national programming. At Stateside, the stations daily news magazine program, I transformed on-air audio segments into built out written articles for the Michigan Radio website and created content for the show’s social media accounts. Below are three samples of content I helped create for the site
Last week, a 17-year old student opened fire at Santa Fe High School. He left 10 dead and 10 more injured.
With every mass shooting in the United States comes a cry to address the issue of mental health. Lawmakers say we need to identify these troubled kids — and get them mental health resources before something terrible happens.
But what about when families try to get help before their child becomes violent? In some cases, treatment comes too late.
View full web post here: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/mother-tried-tell-state-her-son-was-mentally-ill-and-violent-help-came-too-late
Upon release from prison, ex-offenders often enter a world full of uncertainty. Where do you live? Where do you work? How do you survive?
Mario Bueno tries to help people find these answers. He is the co-founder of Luck Inc., a non-profit headquartered in Detroit helping ex-offenders get on their feet. Bueno joined Stateside's Lester Graham to talk about how he started doing this work.
Bueno is no stranger to the state’s criminal justice system.
View full web post here: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/after-finding-brotherhood-behind-bars-ex-offenders-help-others-navigate-life-after-prison
As the nation's attention has focused on ICE and its role in the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy, another immigration agency has quietly been making drastic changes to its mission and policies.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a federal agency traditionally charged with managing benefits and services for immigrants to the U.S.
In February, USCIS published a new mission statement, considerably shifting the direction of their organization.
This month, we saw the impact of this new mission statement play out as the agency released two memos announcing new policies which could endanger almost any immigrant seeking to adjust their benefits.
View full web post here: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/legal-immigration-becomes-harder-under-trump-era-changes-visa-rules