Sunshine Week

Today, we look at government transparency with a primer on how to access your local government, and how adept Up North governments are at keeping in touch with their constituents. Also, an Olympian returns home and the latest on the storm.

To mark "Sunshine Week," IPR provides a broad rundown of the government transparency laws in Michigan and how those laws are enacted here in the northwest lower part of the state.

Michigan has a bad reputation when it comes to government openness. Last year, the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity gave the state an ‘F’ in…

It is well-documented that the state of Michigan is one of the worst states when it comes to transparency and openness in government. Now, with the Flin...