Kate Wells
Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and co-host of the Michigan Radio and NPR podcast Believed. The series was widely ranked among the best of the year, drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Judges described their work as "a haunting and multifaceted account of U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s belated arrest and an intimate look at how an army of women – a detective, a prosecutor and survivors – brought down the serial sex offender."
Wells and her family live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are hoping a wave of newly-motivated activists will turn out this year to override an abortion ban and put broad reproductive rights in the state constitution.
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Organizers in Michigan submitted 750,000 signatures for a November ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
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The first probable case of monkeypox in Michigan was identified Wednesday in an Oakland County patient.
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Michigan abortion providers thought they'd be helping patients get out of the state if Roe fell. Instead, they're overwhelmed by the number of patients trying to get in to the clinics, both from Michigan and other states.
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The Michigan attorney general and the state's regulatory agency say abortion is legal in the state. But a lawyer for two county prosecutors says they can prosecute abortion providers now.
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Abortion providers are reassuring patients they can still come to their appointments. But they're also bracing themselves for what will happen if the state's 1931 abortion ban goes into effect.
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The state health department has pre-ordered tens of thousands of doses that should be arriving early next week.
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Michigan families are getting squeezed by soaring grocery, housing, and fuel prices. But as food banks see a spike in demand, supply chain problems and the end of one-time emergency COVID aid is making it hard to meet the need.
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There could be clues in other debilitating, poorly understood syndromes that share "remarkable similarities" to long COVID.
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Even as Michigan's COVID hospitalizations are climbing again, the rate of people on ventilators or in the ICU is lower than expected. That could be a sign that antiviral treatments are having a real impact.