Starting Tomorrow: STATES, A Series on Life After New Governors
It’s been a year since new Republican governors were elected in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. We all know the headlines.
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Wisconsin and Ohio were wracked with union protests over efforts to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights.
Michigan enacted a strict new law giving enormous powers to emergency managers, including the one that might run Detroit.
But life has changed in other ways, as well.
Starting tomorrow, Changing Gears presents STATES, a three-story series looking at people in each of our states and the ways they’ve been affected.
Kate Davidson kicks things off with a look at Laingsburg, Michigan, a small town north of the state capital where the big news camouflaged some small, but meaningful changes.
Listen for our reports on our partners WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio and ideastream Cleveland, and stop back here to see the people you’ll hear about on the air.