By Bob Eccles

Ypsilanti, MI – For the third year in a row, Eastern Michigan University has been named one of the best colleges in the midwest. Click on the audio icon to hear details of the designation from WEMU's Bob Eccles:

By David Fair

Ypsilanti, MI – He's spent his entire life working to bring peace to India and the world. S.N Subba Rao works especially with young people to get them involved in making the world a more peaceful place. Click on the audio icon to hear David Fair's interview with S.N Subba Rao on WEMU.

By Andrew Cluley

Ypsilanti, MI – The Ypsilanti School Board has hired Richard Weigel as the district's new director of educational services.
Weigel replaces Noni Miller, who left the district earlier this summer to take a similar post in Holly.
Weigel has a masters degree from Eastern Michigan University, and is currently a doctoral degree candidate.

By David Fair; Russ Collins

Ypsilanti, MI – Check out the new offerings in the theaters this weekend. Click on the audio icon to hear this week's Cinema Chat from WEMU.

By David Fair

Ypsilanti, MI – A group of college students brings its summer-long campaign for alternative fuel cars to this weekend's Woodward Dream Cruise. Click on the audio icon to hear this week's Issues of the Environment from WEMU.

By Bob Eccles

Ann Arbor, MI – Ann Arbor's city council has approved placing a ballot issue before voters in November to raise money to remove dead and dying Ash trees infested with the Emerald Ash Borer. Click on the audio icon to hear Bob Eccles' report on the millage vote, and other city council action taken Monday night:

By Brian Nemerovski

Ypsilanti – It's no surprise that, during the first week of Eastern Michigan football camp, competition for the starting running back job is wide open.

No one expected it to be this wide open, though.

A total of six backs are seeing regular work between the first- and second-string offensive units. That group includes three true freshmen.

By Andrew Cluley

Washtenaw County, MI – Washtenaw County's sheriff says a big step was taken Wednesday night in bringing a resolution to a plan to change the contract the county has with local goverments to provide law enforcement.
Click on the audio icon to hear WEMU's Andrew Cluley's report on the action taken by the county board's ways and means committee:

By Andrew Cluley

By David Fair; Russ Collins

Ann Arbor, MI – Not much in the way of new releases at the theaters this weekend, but plenty of outstanding cinema to see just the same.
Click on the audio icon to hear this week's Cinema Chat from WEMU.