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Airports and asylums

As Traverse City's airport expands, officials see an opportunity to address climate change. We'll detail their plans and some of the options they're considering.

Also, a KFF Health news reporter talks to us about the difficulty of tracking how opioid settlement dollars are spent.

We'll hear how an old asylum in Traverse City — now a collection of botiques, restaurants and condos — inspired a new novel.

And we meet the journalist behind a newsletter that's by, for and about the Indigenous people of Michigamiing (Michigan).

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Ed Ronco is IPR's news director.
Max Copeland is the local weekday host of All Things Considered on Interlochen Public Radio and the producer of The Up North Lowdown, IPR’s weekly news podcast.