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(MPRN-Lansing) Governor Rick Snyder says improving services for the mentally ill is a major civil rights issue.

And he says it’s a high priority in his second term.

(MPRN-Lansing) State lawmakers will try again to crack down on animal cruelty in Michigan. A state Senate panel will take up a pair of bills on Tuesday that would increase penalties for serial animal abusers. 

Author Nellie Hermann says "narrative medicine" is the use of creative writing and narrative to enhance our capacity for understanding and empathy in clinical settings, or any other social encounter. Telling a story and the hearing or reading of it has the power to untangle our psychological knots and to help others untangle theirs.

Western Michigan University faculty members meet Friday, January 30, to consider a "no confidence" vote in Provost Tim Greene.

That follows controversy last week when it was announced that Greene had decided not to re-appoint Alex Enyedi, the popular dean of the university's College of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, Greene had been criticized by some faculty members for his handling of complaints that female professors are often paid less than their male colleagues.

On WestSouthwest, the question of how much warmer the Earth can get, and trying to save hibernating bats.