Tracy Samilton
Tracy Samilton covers the auto beat for Michigan Radio. She has worked for the station for 12 years, and started out as an intern before becoming a part-time and, later, a full-time reporter. Tracy's reports on the auto industry can frequently be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as on Michigan Radio. She considers her coverage of the landmark lawsuit against the University of Michigan for its use of affirmative action a highlight of her reporting career.
Tracy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature. Before beginning her journalism career, she spent time working as a legal assistant at various firms in the Ann Arbor area.
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The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development says it discovered during a routine produce safety inspection that Kuntry Gardens, a farm in Homer, Michigan, was using human waste as fertilizer.
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North Lake Correctional Facility will close by September 30th, but two Michigan Congressman want it reopened for a different type of inmate: undocumented immigrants.
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A Detroit Free Press investigation finds understaffing, overcrowding at Wayne County's Juvenile Detention Center is keeping young offenders locked in cells for days at a time.
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State health department wants you to know: Plan B contraception will be legal even if abortion rightThe Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has launched an education campaign to explain that contraceptives do not cause abortions.
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The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project has been monitoring the green, yellow and red flags used to indicate surf conditions at beaches along Lake Michigan — and says they are often clearly wrong.
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Two former housecleaning staff say they were fired for calling out chronic problems with sanitation at Hutzel and Harper hospitals, and that they were denied adequate cleaning supplies due to profit-driven cuts.
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Michigan can lower CO2 emissions despite court ruling on federal Clean Power Plan, policy group saysThe U.S. Supreme Court this week said the Environmental Protection Agency could not enforce the Clean Power Plan, which seeks to hold utilities accountable for lowering carbon emissions. But an environmental law group says Michigan can still do that on its own.
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Sharply rising construction costs placed Detroit's plan for nearly 500 new units of affordable housing in peril. But additional state funding will keep the plan in place.
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1st Call Home Healthcare has discharged forty patients with severe injuries from car crashes, due to cuts in payments under the 2019 auto no fault law. Options for their care going forward are extremely limited.
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Chronic parts shortages show no signs of easing, hence Cox Automotive's recent lowering of its new vehicle sales forecast for 2022.