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Two petition campaigns face a critical test today. A state panel will determine whether they’ve gathered enough signatures to put a pair of proposed amendments to the Michigan Constitution on the November ballot. One proposal would expand voting rights. The other would add an abortion rights amendment to the constitution. Rick Pluta reports.

Everyone is on the dance floor when the Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance (AACTMAD) strikes up the music. Whether Contra, Swing, Morris, or English County dance, it’s a dance party! Bruce Sagan, a musician and dancer and AACTMAD president, joins "creative:impact" host Deb Polich and tempts her to get out on her dancing shoes.

Project Grow in Washtenaw County is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, and we’ll look back on five decades of community gardening and advocacy for sustainable gardens in Ann Arbor and beyond. WEMU's David Fair is joined by Project Grow managing director Kirk Jones to discuss the lessons learned in the first 50 years and what the immediate and longer-term future holds.

The Michigan Supreme Court will be the next stop after a state elections panel deadlocked on allowing an abortion rights proposal to proceed to the November ballot. We have more from Rick Pluta.

We're getting settled into a new school year, but there's always time to squeeze in a good flick. WEMU's David Fair meets up again with Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins to talk about the newest films and special screenings coming your way over the next week.

Do you like scary movies? Of course you do. It's Halloween! WEMU's David Fair and Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins talk about the fright fest of films available in Ann Arbor as well as the newest films opening up at your local movie house.

It seems like paper and rubber bats are ever-present around the Halloween season. It's real bats we have to worry about. White-nose Syndrome is having a dramatic impact on overall bat populations in Michigan, and elsewhere. The ecological and economic impacts are already being felt, and the situation may get worse before it gets better. Dr. Allen Kurta is a biology professor at EMU and a noted bat expert. He joined WEMU's David Fair with the latest information.

Michigan officials are working to get everyone on the same page as we hit the two-week mark before the election. Colin Jackson has more.

Michigan has been an abortion rights battleground since June, when the US Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe versus Wade. Proposal 3 is an attempt to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. But the issue is more complex than a single up-or-down vote, and the controversy will almost certainly linger past the November election. Rick Pluta has more.

Democrats take both State Senate seats representing Washtenaw County.