Public Insight Network

For the next few days we're featuring stories of ordinary listeners who read or heard a story on State of Opportunity and decided to give some of their…

For the next few days we're featuring stories of ordinary listeners who read or heard a story on State of Opportunity and decided to give some of their…

For the next few days we're featuring stories of ordinary listeners who read or heard a story on State of Opportunity and decided to give some of their…

The Corner Health Center in Ypsilanti is a place adolescents and the children of adolescents can get affordable, high quality health care. Staff and…

Almost everyone is well-qualified to offer an opinion on how to "fix" education because almost everyone has been to school or is in school now. That…

Only a handful of public schools in Grand Rapids still offer art classes of any kind. To fill the gap, the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology…

The roughly 14,000 young people in Michigan’s foster care system are expected to live on their own once they turn 18, if they're still in the system at…

State of Opportunity's story booth has been busy the last few weeks. It has traveled to Lansing, Big Rapids, Grand Rapids, and around the corner in Ann…

This morning I was scolded via email by a listener who'd gotten a request from me for help on a story we're working on right now. (For a list of some of…

I spend a lot of my time, as many journalists do, trying to convince people to share their experiences and stories. Sometimes it takes a lot of work. Most…