Kate Wells
Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and co-host of the Michigan Public and NPR podcast Believed.
The series was widely ranked among the best of the year, drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Judges described their work as "a haunting and multifaceted account of U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s belated arrest and an intimate look at how an army of women – a detective, a prosecutor and survivors – brought down the serial sex offender."
Wells and her family live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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The latest court ruling comes as providers say they're seeing huge demand for the procedure from both local and out-of-state patients.
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Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are hoping a wave of newly-motivated activists will turn out this year to override an abortion ban and put broad reproductive rights in the state constitution. -
Organizers in Michigan submitted 750,000 signatures for a November ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
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The law could put doctors, and even patients, in prison for up to four years. And the state's attorney general says she can't stop local prosecutors from enforcing it. -
Michigan has more COVID-19 hospitalizations than ever. This surge is coming at the same time hospitals are also getting hit with waves of non-COVID patients, who delayed care during the pandemic.
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Patients who couldn't see a doctor earlier in the pandemic or were too afraid to go to a hospital have finally become too sick to stay away. Many ERs now struggle to cope with an onslaught of need. -
Emergency Department visits are up nearly 40-percent in Michigan from last September. Some hospitals say a lot of those patients coming in are "high acuity," meaning more seriously ill, than before the pandemic, and it's not just COVID patients. -
Michigan's top doctor says having a universal mask mandate for schools would reduce COVID cases. -
A new policy will limit how often Ingham County charges people with felony possession of a firearm. -
Several of the state's largest school districts say they won't require kids to wear masks this fall.
