
Tracy Samilton
Energy and Transportation Reporter / ProducerTracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Public. She began her career at Michigan Radio as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
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Almost every week since September, people who have survived car crashes with catastrophic injuries have been coming to the state Capitol building to ask legislators for help.
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The tragic consequences of Michigan’s new auto no fault law continue to mount. Republican leaders in the state legislature promised to fix known problems with the law after it was passed. But they haven’t. More than 18 thousand catastrophically injured Michiganders are losing necessary medical care as a result.On Sunday, Kelley Miller, a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic, lost her home care. Tracy Samilton was there when paramedics removed Miller from her home of ten years.
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Health officials are worried about a possible "twindemic," making the crisis at hospitals even worse. A "twindemic" means two serious diseases infecting large numbers of people at the same time. In this case, that would be COVID-19, and the flu.
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Survivors of catastrophic car accidents and their advocates crowded the halls of the state Capitol on Wednesday.
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James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the accused Oxford High School shooter, appeared in shackles in an Oakland County district court for their first post-arraignment hearing on Tuesday.
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A high profile lay leader in the Episcopal Church says Michigan auto accident survivors with catastrophic injuries need help.
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Family members of auto accident survivors are outraged by Governor Gretchen Whitmer's call for refunds from the M.C.C.A. fund.
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A top health care official says parts of Michigan's new auto insurance law are unsustainable.
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All 83 county prosecutors offices in Michigan are struggling with a huge backlog of cases and not enough staff to handle them.
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Allegan County has joined Genesee and Kalamazoo counties in mandating masks for schoolchildren who are too young to receive a coronavirus vaccine.