If you're feeling some sticker shock over gas prices in Michigan recently, you're not alone. Experts say there are multiple factors contributing to the increased cost. Two economists join us today to explain the price spike.

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Despite the reopening of the Abbot baby formula factory in Sturgis last weekend, experts say the nationwide supply chain shortage will likely continue for a while. Many Michigan parents are relying on both community resources and one another to make sure their infants have necessary care. 

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The oldest mated loon couple happen to be Michigan residents. But the infamous pair has recently split. Sheri McWhirter, a reporter for MLive, shares what she knows about these beloved birds.

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Sheri McWhirter, MLive reporter

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Missed out on this summer’s Movement Electronic Music festival? We have you covered. On today's Stateside Podcast, we’re bringing you into the underbelly of Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival. Plus we’ll hear from one of the techno originals, Carl Craig. 

Carl Craig, Detroit-based techno pioneer and internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and composer

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This week's Mackinac Policy Conference is focused on how businesses navigate a particularly divisive political moment—and is also host to a major gubernatorial debate. We talked to one of the organizers of the event about what's causing a buzz at the annual gathering of Michigan lawmakers and business leaders. 

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Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber,

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A new report from the U.S. Department of Interior underscores what Native American families have known for decades: The longstanding policy of removing Native children from their homes and sending them to residential boarding schools had devastating and widespread impacts across the country.

That includes here in Michigan, which was home to several Native boarding schools, the last of which didn't close its doors until the 1980s. Today on the pod, what we know about the history and legacy of our state’s Native boarding schools.

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Levi Rickert, publisher and editor of Native News Online and Tribal Business News and citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation 

Fred Kiogima, retired from the U.S. Marine and citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians

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Last weekend was Detroit’s legendary electronic music festival, Movement.  Jeff Mills – affectionately known as The Wizard – is one of the originators of techno music. He’s graced the airwaves of WJLB and WDET and co-founded the prolific group, Underground Resistance. Today, he talks all things techno and about latest album, Mind Power Mind Control.

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Jeff Mills, DJ, producer, composer

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The massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, reminds us that just six months ago our own community was reeling from the deadly shooting at Oxford High School. Four young people were killed. One of the most significant differences in these two stories is the law enforcement response. Today, an Oakland County sheriff on police responses to active shooters.

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Michael Bouchard, Oakland County Sheriff 

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The Board of State Canvassers met today to determine who would make the primary ballot for governor, and whether several of the candidates should be held off the ballot due to thousands of fraudulent signatures submitted. Ultimately, a Bureau of Elections recommendation to keep four of the 10 candidates off the ballot, stood. A fifth candidate, Michael Brown, had already decided he wanted no part of the scandal and dropped out.

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Michael Brown, withdrawn GOP candidate for governor, and a captain with the Michigan State Police

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Guns are now the leading cause of death for American children, but Michigan laws won't budge. Today, we talk with the Michigan State Senator whose district includes Oxford Township, where the mass shooting at Oxford High earlier this school year remains a fresh wound. And we hear from a researcher who narrows in on gun deaths -- and ways to possibly mitigate them -- among Michigan children.

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Rosemary Bayer, state senator representing Oxford Township and co-chair of the Michigan Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention Caucus (D-12)

Patrick Carter, co-director of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and associate professor of emergency medicine at Michigan Medicine 

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