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State Health Department Wants $1,000 Penalties For Breaking Its Rules

Agency also determines who conducts quasi-judicial trials

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Teacher Shortage Blamed For No Friday Classes In Detroit? Their Numbers Up, Not Down

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Ready For Your Annual Inflation-Indexed Michigan Gas Tax Hike?

Nothing ‘transitory’ about these increases, and this could be just the start

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School Shootings Database Uses Very Broad Definition

They’re all tragic, but many incidents aren’t the nightmare scenario of a shooter in class

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Whitmer Celebrates Promise of 195 Jobs, While Over 800,000 Created In 2019

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State Sen. Dale Zorn Praises State Subsidy To Taiwanese Firm

Lawmaker has perfect voting record in favor of laws that authorize state payments to certain corporations

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Media Teacher Shortage Claims Abundant, Actual Teacher Shortages Not

East Lansing has 235 teachers today, more than the 224 in 2017-18

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Be Skeptical When Media Stories Of Teacher Shortages Contain No Numbers

So-called shortage at a Waterford high school is actually a big increase in teacher-student ratio

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Agency Praised For Subsidizing 40 Jobs; In 2019 State Gained More Than 800,000

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Over 400 Employees Leave Beaumont Hospitals Due To Vaccination Mandate

Federal government sending 44 staffers to assist

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Parents, Students Take A Back Seat As School Districts Announce Last-Minute Closures

‘Unprecedented level of fatigue’ in ‘our amazing staff’

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House Democratic Caucus Ducks Vote To Ban Critical Race Stereotyping In Michigan Schools

Very unusual to see a legislative caucus abstain on a proposed law here

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A Seeming Shortage Of Teacher Shortages, Yet More Media Reports Make The Claim

Hard to (again) declare not enough teachers when districts keep adding more per student

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Government Spending In 2021: Money For Everything

In Midland County, that means both a community center and repairs required by dam’s failure

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Michigan State University Employs Only Three People To Respond to 1,200 Open Records Requests

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Four Hospitals That Take Federal Money To Help Low-Income Patients Do Less To Help Than Those That Don't

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Liberty, Prosperity and Humility on Thanksgiving

A Thanksgiving Proclamation in George Washington's own words

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Charter School Association: Sports Reporter Shouldn’t Have Taken Unfair Swipe At Charter Schools

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Consumers Energy Admits More Renewables Risk Higher Rates, Pushing Ahead Anyway

Michigan will increasingly rely on electricity produced elsewhere

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Detroit Schools’ New Adviser: Schools ‘Product Of Interconnected History Of Racism And Bias’

Michigan nonprofit paid $125,000 to bring in the group

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Another Teacher Shortage Report, But Ratio To Students Stable Since 2017

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Tlaib: ‘Corporate Dems’ Resist Biden Welfare Blowout; She Was A 'Corporate Dem' Herself As State Rep

Former state representative helped enact $1.031 billion in cash for favored corporations and developers

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State’s Pursuit of Snyder Emails Could Pierce Officials’ Veil of Attorney-Client Privilege

‘Judge, they don’t have the right to privacy in state owned email and servers. They simply don’t.’

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Fenton Woman Says Facebook Hindered Her Search For Missing Brother

After posting COVID-related article, she joined lawsuit against tech company

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Maybe Facemasks Not Such A Big Deal?

Everyone masked in local TV vaccination story —except the Saginaw County Health Department director

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