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 Radio. 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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An environmental group says Michigan's grid operator is keeping renewable energy from fully participating in the electric grid.Nearly every year, renewable energy produces more of our electricity, and fossil fuel, especially coal, produces less. Aaron Stemplewicz is with EarthJustice. He says MISO, the multi-state grid operator that includes Michigan, is essentially discriminating against renewables.
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For the first time since the pandemic began, the federal government will require people with Medicaid to show income eligibility to keep their insurance.
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A circuit court judge has ordered Kewadin Casinos Gaming Authority to pay investors nearly 89-million dollars.
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A three-year-old lawsuit that pits religious freedom against a county's public health code is scheduled to go before a judge next month.
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At least six Democratic candidates have been getting "hateful and vile" phone calls, after their Republican opponents put their personal cell phone numbers on campaign mailings.
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More than 31,000 acres of heavily forested land in the Upper Peninsula is being sold to a conservation group.The land is located at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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Analysis of 35 car insurance companies in Michigan shows they're raising rates by an average of seven-point-two percent. That's a total of nearly $500-million dollars.Doug Heller is director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America. He says it shows that the state's 2019 auto no-fault law broke a promise to lower the cost of car insurance.
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An audit confirms an incident of alleged tampering in a Kent County precinct in the August primary didn't affect the outcome.
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The Michigan Supreme Court will decide whether changes made to the state’s auto insurance law in 2019 are constitutional. But, in an order issued Thursday, the court said insurance companies must continue paying the pre-2019 benefit levels until the case is decided.
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A juvenile justice group is urging Wayne County to fix what it calls a crisis at the county's Juvenile Detention facility.