Wednesday afternoon time for our bimonthly conversation with MiBiz senior writer Mark Sanchez. The outdoor recreation industry is in trouble and there's a new normal developing. A new normal because there's this massive demographic shift occurring in the world today. Here's a story this week over the next few additions we started this week in the the issue of MiBiz we took a look at outdoor recreation as an industry. How it fits in to the state. For many many of us it's why we live here. It is a $26.6 billion industry in terms of consumer spending, pays $7.5 billion dollars in wage and salary ..read more

Steve Inskeep morning edition co-host historian author of the new book is Imperfect Union: How Jesse in John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War. I like how you compartmentalize this. Thank you. So, let's start out with part one of that is mapping the West if my history is correct you go back to the 1800's and there was this doctrine of Manifest Destiny. So, where do they fit in? The 3 months are people out of that time John Charles Fremont was an Explorer of the American West and went on one of his expeditions, the very summer that a newspaper man who wr ..read more

U.S. Rep. Justin Amash says he’s jumping into the 2020 presidential election seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. The Cascade Township Independent representing Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District left the Republican party on the 4th of July last year. WGVU asked if that’s the day he decided to run as a third-party candidate ..read more

April 21st @ 9:00 pm on WGVU Public Television - PBS FRONTLINE presents Coronavirus Pandemic investigating how the deadly COVID-19 outbreak began in the U.S. and how the federal response allowed it to spread. WGVU spoke with correspondent Miles O’Brien ..read more

Tuesday, April 7th @ 10pm, WGVU-TV presents FRONTLINE's China Undercover . From producer Robin Barnwell ( Battle for Hong Kong ) the documentary also examines the Communist regime’s use of sophisticated surveillance and AI technology against the members of its Muslim population. In addition to undercover footage, the documentary draws on accounts from family members who are desperately searching for their disappeared loved ones, and the stories of people who were held in the detention camps themselves. It’s a harrowing investigation into China’s imprisonment and surveillance of Muslims — what ..read more

U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer from Grand Rapids voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump. As one of only a handful of Republicans voting to impeach, WGVU spoke with the freshman congressman about what went into his decision? We begin our conversation asking what he experienced as the U.S. Capitol was attacked and breached. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Grand Rapids, MI-03): I watched the president give his speech from the ellipse. I believe that was around noon. And when he concluded he walked over to discuss and then work on the electoral college certification in the capital. Some of us were up in the ..read more

Tuesday, March 31st on WGVU-TV @ 10pm, Plastic Wars reveals that for decades, the plastics industry has helped sell its products by promoting the recyclability of plastic — despite deep doubts inside the industry that widespread plastic recycling would ever be economically viable. “There was never an enthusiastic belief that recycling was ultimately going to work in a significant way,” Lew Freeman, former VP of government affairs for the Society of the Plastics Industry, tells FRONTLINE and NPR in Plastic Wars. Throughout the documentary, NPR correspondent Laura Sullivan (Trump’s Trade War, Bl ..read more

U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer from Grand Rapids voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump. As one of only a handful of Republicans voting to impeach, WGVU spoke with the freshman congressman about what went into his decision? We begin our conversation asking what he experienced as the U.S. Capitol was attacked and breached. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Grand Rapids, MI-03): I watched the president give his speech from the ellipse. I believe that was around noon. And when he concluded he walked over to discuss and then work on the electoral college certification in the capital. Some of us were up in the ..read more

On Tuesday, Mar,ch 24 we will air NRA Under Fire . From producer Gabrielle Schonder and her team at Kirk Documentary Group ( America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump ) , the documentary explores how once an unrivaled political power, the NRA is facing challenges from all sides. Drawing on FRONTLINE’s 2015 documentary Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA , Schonder and her team investigate how the NRA aligned with President Trump and his base, but remains under attack ahead of the 2020 election ..read more

Since 1987, Birgit Klohs has guided regional nonprofit economic development organization, The Right Place. After more than three decades on the job, Klohs has decided now is the time to retire. WGVU talks with Birgit Klohs. Birgit Klohs: "The second hardest decision I've ever made, the first one was moving to the United States all those many years ago decades now. I have been in this position for 33 years and I loved every minute of it. And it was very difficult. A number of things came together, not the least of which is my birthday and that in my husband, but also as you know there's another ..read more