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Fed Court: Let Michigan Supremes Decide If Whitmer's Emergency Powers Valid

Current law puts no time limit on assumption of extraordinary powers

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National Teachers Union Wants Police Out Of Schools

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Get the Numbers Straight about School Finance

Complete picture, sound math debunk exaggerated talking points

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Michigan Population Winners And Losers

Surprises include Ann Arbor decline, topped only by last place Detroit

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No Spike In New COVID-19 Cases After Police Brutality Protests

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Whitmer: Attempt To Strip Emergency Powers 'Irresponsible, Dangerous, And Foolish'

Extends her extraordinary powers until end of July or longer

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Media Anecdotes Galore, But Little Data On Frontline Workers Catching COVID-19

Walmart silent since early April; big New York grocer reports 0.5% rate

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Whitmer Extends Emergency Even As Hospital Occupancy Rates Back To Normal

The rate was 66% on June 15, same figure as 1990 and 2010

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Lansing Activists Want To Defund Police

But city owes public safety retirees $764 million in benefits

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Why Can Funeral Directors Only Manage One Home Per County?

Bill seeks to keep rural undertakers from going under

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Michigan Can’t Find $3.5 Million For State Police Body Cams, Spends $15 Million On Tourism Marketing

About $2,200 per officer per year to acquire, operate body cams

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Union Announces Cost To Reopen US Schools: $116.5 Billion

'...should be provided in addition to other funds'

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State and Local Bailouts Would Reward Fiscal Wastefulness

Congress should avoid bailouts

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Completing the Fix for Police Accountability

We must adopt a comprehensive approach to police reform

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Former Ann Arbor Chief Speaks Out On Police Unions

They exploit a process 'staggeringly favorable to bad cops'

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State Says Michigan Capitol Confidential Wrong, It Did Not Demand Dam Water Be Raised In Lawsuit

Attorney General’s remedy was ‘restoring ecosystem to ... state prior to the Drawdowns’

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Whitmer Won’t Defund ‘All The Police,’ State Police Handle Her Emergency Communications

Wants less law enforcement, criminal justice in budget

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Cop Or Barber? Clipping Hair In Michigan Requires Three Times More Training

594 hours versus 1,800 hours

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Township Officials Sue Tax Hike Opponents For Successfully Committing Politics Online

Voters deprived officials of opportunity to spend more

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Police Unions In The Crosshairs

Former chief says they make it 'almost impossible to fire and hold officers accountable'

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Attorney General Cited ‘Mussels’ 38 Times, ‘Flood’ Once In Suit Over Dam That Failed

Suit filed 19 days before flood, for lowering waters behind dam

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Misleading Pictures Of Detroit School Funding

It’s not hard to get things wrong when big revenue sources are left out

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Wayne Prosecutor Endorsed By Attorney General Nessel Seized Poor Peoples' Cars

Took more than 2,600 cars over two years in aggressive sting operation

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Whitmer Agrees Armed Blacks At Capitol Would Be Killed; These Weren't

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Whitmer's 114 Coronavirus Executive Orders Bring 22 Lawsuits So Far

More of both seem likely

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