Bridge Michigan reporters Lauren Gibbons and Simon Schuster joined WJR’s ‘All Talk with Kevin Dietz’ to discuss democracyTopics included voting rules, election integrity, government transparency and moreThe WJR collaboration is part of Bridge Listens. We are asking readers to nominate their top 2026 election issues in this formBridge Michigan political reporters Lauren Gibbons and Simon Schuster joined WJR-760 on Wednesday to discuss their reporting on democracy, voting rules and government transparency. They were guests on “All Talk with Kevin Dietz” as part of an ongoing election-year collaboration between Bridge and WJR. You can watch the segment here:The collaboration — known as “Election 2026 Coverage that Matters to Michigan” — is part of Bridge Listens, a yearlong effort to help identify and discuss the top election issues in Michigan before the 2026 election. Related:Reform efforts have repeatedly stalled in Lansing, where lawmakers are “implicitly benefiting from not having the light of transparency shined up on their personal emails and their records,” Gibbons said.