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Highland Park bailout passes Michigan Senate

In party-line vote, Michigan’s upper chamber approves $20M water bill bailout for Detroit suburb

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Gotion will siphon more water than Nestle

Whitmer supports Chinese facility that will draw 139,000 daily gallons more than the project she ran against in 2018

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Huizenga bill would protect the gas stove from federal regulators

House STOVE Act responds to Biden administration’s interest in regulating gas stove out of existence

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Michigan House bill lets government schools deduct union dues from paychecks

House Bill 4233 would repeal prohibition on union financing through taxpayer-funded resources

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Get ready to pay Highland Park’s water bill

Senate Democrats advance plan to give Detroit suburb $20M state bailout

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Michigan bill would keep local officials ‘remote’ from public

Local officials work in the public square, not in a square on Zoom

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Michael Moore ends film festival 2 years after $1M grant

Taxpayers gave a cool million for anti-capitalist auteur’s movie shindig in Traverse City

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Weingarten: ‘We spent every day ... trying to get schools open’

Teachers union head, testifying under oath, denies a long, clear public record

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Michigan in bottom 10 among states in new report

U.S. News puts Great Lakes State in 41st place, with failing grades in crime, fiscal policy, infrastructure

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Unions celebrate compulsory private sector dues as public sector membership wanes

Public employees can invoke their Janus rights, and opt out of paying unions

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With COVID emergency over, Michigan senator pushes for remote meetings

With a two-seat majority in the House and Senate, Democrats who run Lansing don’t have a vote to spare

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Electric vehicle transition kills hundreds of jobs at GM

Automaker looks to cut $2B in spending, per Detroit Free Press

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Washington Watch

Biden: COVID vaccine mandates terminate May 11

Visitors to America can travel like it’s 2019. Employees and contractors can work without medical coercion.

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Whitmer decrees April 28 ‘Worker’s Memorial Day’

Don’t expect the day off, though

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Michigan bill would require 100% renewables by 2035

Senate Bill 271 takes two different views on nuclear: It’s not renewable before 2035, but is renewable afterward

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MSU professor peddles ‘catastrophic’ myth against school vouchers

How a criticism of voucher programs actually provides a strong defense

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Michigan’s plan for energy transition: Leap before it looks

Energy transition fails to consider trade-offs, unreliability of renewable sources

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Parents are responsible for their child’s education

Journalist uses tiny percentage of population to smear parents

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Freedom Fights

Report: ‘Net-zero’ Britain will struggle to keep the lights on

Across the pond, a utopian vision runs into reality, bringing a darker, colder new normal

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Grand Valley State underwrites identity-based graduation events

‘Grand Valley does not segregate any of its graduation events,’ school says

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Washington Watch

Granholm envisions all-EV military by 2030

Plan would make U.S. military more dependent on China

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Michigan Treasury stiffs workers on new tax cut

Michigan tax authority refuses to update withholding schedules for employers to reflect 2023 tax cut

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Michigan’s income tax cut was 16 years in the making

Both parties fail to bring back Michigan’s pre-2008 tax rates

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Lansing Math: Michigan pays $340,000 per (promised) job at Gotion factory

New $175 million round of corporate welfare brings state’s tab for Mecosta County project to $800M

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Despite billions in corporate welfare, Michigan’s jobs market still back of the pack

The Michigan economy since the COVID-19 pandemic has not been a pretty picture

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