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.
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