Molly Anderson

1 week ago | michiganpublic.org | Molly Anderson |Michelle Jokisch Polo

In 1495, the artist Albrecht Dürer made a famous engraving of the Holy Family that included a mayfly. Dürer meant it to suggest a link between heaven and earth, perhaps because of their brief 48 hours of life once hatched. In Michigan, swarms of mayflies, sometimes known as fish flies due to their fishy smells, can often signal the beginning of summer.

2 weeks ago | michiganpublic.org | Molly Anderson |Laura Weber Davis

Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that the University of Michigan hired private investigators to track pro-Palestinian campus activists. Since then, the university's interim president, Domenico Grasso, has announced that it is cutting ties with private companies whose plainclothes investigators had been surveilling the campus, including City Shield, based in Detroit.