Michigan unemployment agency gets nearly $7M from feds, for equity’s sake
If "equity is a goal" of state unemployment system, it should be a budget priority
As message of COVID vaccines changes, public support for booster shots shrinks
Fewer Americans follow full recommendations
You want unity in Michigan? Find it on the debate stage
Transparency demands a battle of ideas in a public forum, not dueling campaign rallies
Michigan schools should teach self-defense skills and nutrition
If Michigan high school grads learned personal finance, survival skills, and how to eat properly, our future would look brighter
Michigan school performance took a major hit from COVID lockdowns
The Nation’s Report Card reveals closures had profound negative impact on student achievement
Slotkin ad mistakes job announcements for jobs, subsidies for growth
Opposing subsidies is not the same as opposing jobs
Oakland County teacher training: You may already be guilty of microaggression
Believe in hard work, opportunity, and America? Those are micro-aggressions, according to two school districts in Michigan’s richest communities
Student loan borrowers get $10K bailout, trade school students get regulations
Michigan’s state government leans on the trade school student, and feds bail out the student loan borrower
Michigan Secretary of State: 541K inactive voter registrations to be purged by 2025
In 2023, 102K will be cancelled, followed by another 439K in 2025, state says
Whitmer, maskless at high-risk school district, ignores health department, CDC guidance
Through her actions, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is declaring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic
UP energy costs are high; without Line 5, they would be unaffordable
Michigan will grant $120 million in home heating credits this year
Lawsuit alleging 26K dead on Michigan voter rolls will go on
SOS Benson has purged 330k dead voters from Qualified Voter List since 2019. How many remain?
Student loans, PPP loans are of a different character; let’s talk about it
How are PPP loans different from student loans? Let me count the ways
Study on Ann Arbor-to-Traverse City railway rests on flimsy data
Yet it’s the foundation for $2.3 million in taxpayer funds for a second-phase study
After state audit, Michigan Secretary of State purges dead from voter rolls quarterly
Jocelyn Benson's office now offers a post-audit certification, after audit found half of county clerks took no such training
Biden's $10K student loan forgiveness is reverse Robin Hood
If college is worth taking student loans, why would the government need to forgive $10,000 of them?
Wayne County leads list of 50-year population losses
Detroit's county lost 910,000 residents while neighboring Oakland and Macomb grew; Ontonagon had greatest percentage decline
After getting $100M from Michigan to create 3,000 jobs, Ford announces 3,000 layoffs
Ford says a significant percentage of the job cuts will happen in Michigan
State advocates vaccines for minors; many parents take a different view
The younger the age cohort, the lower COVID vaccination rates dip in Michigan
Forced to fail: How Michigan’s lockdowns ruined an Oxford gym
One in three Michigan businesses faced a government-ordered closure in 2020, and some never recovered.
How Michigan schools can produce financially responsible graduates
The public education system should teach the skills that develop ‘competent citizens’
The public will be heard: a lesson from Patmos Library
What did we learn from a failed millage for a West Michigan library?
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ESG standards have left some businesses, individuals, without banking services
MSU strays from CDC guidelines, will require COVID vaccinations again in 2022-23
CDC says people who have had COVID have some immunity against severe illness
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