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4/12/22 - Mental Health

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Mike Redford with a guest on set and a guest on a monitor.

The season five finale has Mike Redford talking to Dr. Matt Samocki - Executive Director of the Great Lakes Bay Region Mental Health Partnership Initiative & J.W. Fisher, P.E. - President of Fisher Contracting. They discuss the growing Mental Health crisis affecting America and their efforts to face the issue in this area.

Our Universe

The Local Group

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, a member of a collection of around 80 galaxies known as the Local Group.

Backyard Astronomer

5/5/25 - Waxing Gibbous Moon

All this week, the phase of the moon grows larger and brighter as it moves from first quarter toward full. We call this period the “waxing gibbous moon” as the oval shape becomes wider and more rounded.

Environment Report

All Scraps: Food and Tires

A Detroit nonprofit called Make Food Not Waste has an initiative to cut Michigan’s food waste in half by 2030. There’s a Give a Scrap Food Scrap Pickup Service available in Bay City, Saginaw and Birch Run.

Hidden History

Victorian-Era Baby Carriage

The story behind a wicker baby carriage that dates back to the late 1800s.