Claire Keenan-Kurgan
News FellowClaire joined Interlochen Public Radio in summer 2024. Before arriving at IPR, she interned for WBEZ’s data journalism team in Chicago and for the investigative unit of American Public Media.
She studied sociology and global studies at the University of Chicago and she speaks Spanish. Contact her at claire.keenan-kurgan@interlochen.org.
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In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last. -
In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last. -
The need for more beds in the juvenile justice system is getting greater, especially after a state facility in Gaylord closed earlier this year. -
The nurses have all accepted offers after a Munson recruiting trip to the Philippines this past winter. They are still awaiting the approval of their work visas. -
An escalating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has NOT stopped the relationship between a coffee cooperative there and a coffee shop here in Traverse City. -
Local immigration attorney Marcelo Betti says there’s a lot more to the story of immigration to northern Michigan than you might think. -
The previous income limit was lifted. -
The Traverse City homeless shelter normally closes its doors for the summer at the end of April. But this May, the shelter will stay open. -
Tomorrow, the school's Native American Student Organization will host its annual graduation pow wow, open to the public. -
The suit, filed in federal court by the estate of Jayson Hoogeveen, asks for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
