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The PIT Count

Ashley Halladay-Schmadt and volunteers searching a wooded area for the 2024 Point in Time count. Photo Credit: Ashley Halladay-Schmadt.
Ashley Halladay-Schmadt and volunteers searching a wooded area for the 2024 Point in Time count. Photo Credit: Ashley Halladay-Schmadt.

Each year, volunteers fan out in northern Michigan — and around the country — to try and take a data snapshot: How many people are living without shelter? The point-in-time, or PIT, count provides data that informs federal funding. But where the government sends that money might soon change.

Also: Grand Traverse Bay has frozen over for the first time since 2019. We hear how scientists are going back in time to figure out the history of ice cover on the Great Lakes.

And we remember a former U.S. senior diplomat who, in his retirement, called Traverse City home.

Maxwell Howard is a reporter for IPR News.
Ed Ronco is IPR's news director and the local host of "Morning Edition."