Upcoming democratic vape legislation would fund undercover enforcement operations to prevent underage sales. It would effectively ban most flavored vapes, too: news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/03/whitme…

And, returning bipartisan legislation to update health care data sharing could save lives and save you unnecessary trips to the doc if passed: news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/03/legisl…

A dryer fire at MSU's Butterfield hall led to evacuations this afternoon. "It looked like a bomb went off," one student told me at the scene: statenews.com/article/2025/0… The State News #MSU

being a student journalist

Alpena is getting a 6-acre solar array installed on their campus -- the project is the first of its kind in Michigan, and industry leaders say it will help students earn big: news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/03/alpena…

New photo story out! Take a look inside the Fledge, a Lansing community center that has a really interesting model to fight poverty: statenews.com/article/2025/0…

Bad day to be a frisbee at the capitol, but another good day to be Hope (I don’t think there’s ever been a bad day to be Hope)

Student journalists are anonymizing bylines, unpublishing stories, and resigning from newsrooms amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech under Trump. "These are not normal times," the Student Press Law Center has warned. My latest for The Guardian: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will stop publishing diversity data and has removed mentions of diversity from its corporate site niemanlab.org/2025/04/gannet…

New: An app to advise fish consumption is helping bring back an Anishinaabe tradition: news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/04/great-…

What do students think of this?

The future for Michigan cherries may be dire. Read more here: news.jrn.msu.edu/2025/04/the-fu…

Summer schedule: I'm reporting on state affairs for Gongwer Michigan (State Affairs Michigan) until Summer recess, then will be joining Cadillac News as a Report for America corps member in July! Stay tuned for more 😁

Check out this article from my first week at Cadillac News: Mesick's museum may be closing permanently, and its director has a strong story to tell about its struggles. cadillacnews.com/news/mesick-mu…

Finishing four stories that you've been working on in one day while at a daily feels like this: