Austin Rowlader
Contributing ReporterAustin is a freelance reporter and producer for IPR based in Bellaire. His written stories have appeared in Bridge Michigan and many up north newspapers. Austin also coordinates Red Pine Radio and hosts The Antrim Writers Series.
When he's not making radio, you'll find Austin next to his wood stove daydreaming.
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Two years ago, homelessness advocates in northern Michigan made a longstanding ideal a reality. We check in on the East Bay Flats, where all 64 apartments are for people experiencing homelessness. IPR’s Maxwell Howard visited the Flats to see how the ideal is actually working in practice. -
Maple season is in full swing here at Hidden Acres Sugar Bush in Gaylord, a business run by Jennifer RiChard and her husband. But it wasn’t so long ago that none of this seemed possible. A look at how the sugar bush is recovering a year after an ice storm devastated tens of millions of trees across northern Michigan, including many sugar maples. -
Today, we look at government transparency with a primer on how to access your local government, and how adept Up North governments are at keeping in touch with their constituents. Also, an Olympian returns home and the latest on the storm. -
To mark "Sunshine Week," IPR provides a broad rundown of the government transparency laws in Michigan and how those laws are enacted here in the northwest lower part of the state.
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We check in again with the National Weather Service and hear from two businesses — one in Traverse City, one in Kalkaska County — about how they fared Monday. -
Sara Maurer's story looks at what it means to live in the Upper Peninsula amid a changing climate. She shares an excerpt with us and talks about her Yooper identity. -
Two Traverse City pastors describe their visit to Washington, D.C., where they asked members of Congress for immigration reform. Plus, we hear the culmination of a long fight over zoning in Banks Township. -
The effort to repeal zoning rules was spearheaded by Marv Rubingh, a township board member who is trying to gain approval for a gravel mine on his property. -
Federal judges tend to rule in favor of immigrants held at North Lake Detention Center, saying the government is illegally detaining them. That's according to an analysis of habeas corpus petitions. -
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a massive logging project in the Ottawa National Forest, which covers the furthest western corner of the Upper Peninsula, where it borders Wisconsin. Environmental groups say despite efforts to the contrary, there could still be unintentional harm.
