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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

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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

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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

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UP energy costs are high; without Line 5, they would be unaffordable

Michigan will grant $120 million in home heating credits this year

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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State advocates vaccines for minors; many parents take a different view

The younger the age cohort, the lower COVID vaccination rates dip in Michigan

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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.

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How Michigan schools can produce financially responsible graduates

The public education system should teach the skills that develop ‘competent citizens’

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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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Your credit card has been cancelled

ESG standards have left some businesses, individuals, without banking services

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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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Whitmer’s tax holiday for school supplies is just another gimmick

After vetoing multiple tax relief proposals, Whitmer floats a tax holiday she knows will not pass

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For Rochester schools’ diversity vendors, equity is good business

FOIA lawsuit against Rochester Community Schools has yielded a list of authors, but requested classroom materials denied so far

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Michigan bill would ban cellphones on school buses, in class

House Bill 6171 would require every Michigan school district to ban cellphones. Why?

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WEF comes to Michigan, but who will go to Davos?

Who will Michigan send to Davos, and what will they bring back?

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EVs and solar panels have moral and environmental trade-offs, too

Slave labor and dirty environmental practices make green energy far from clean

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The move toward ESG investing is not the free market at work

Government tilts the scale toward the alternative approach toward investing

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Have gun, will audit: With 87K new IRS agents, how many will be armed?

Among the duties of an IRS criminal investigation special agent: ‘Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary’

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Sen. Stabenow slams Big Pharma, Big Oil, but takes their donations

Over the decades, the companies Stabenow blames for high prices have been big-dollar donors to her campaigns

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