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Perpetual State Of Emergency? Michigan One Of 15 States That Don’t Rule It Out

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Cancel The Narrative: Schools Serving Michigan’s Poor Among State's Highest Funded, Not Least

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Whitmer's Idea Of Bullying: Is It Small Business Politely Pleading To Reopen?

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Ex-ACLU Head Plays Race Card On Detroit Schools

Yet, Detroit receives thousands of dollars more per student than the average Michigan school district

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Superintendent Gets $240K, School District Out Another $100K In Pension 'Catch-Up Costs'

Past pension underfunding takes amount equal to 40% of school payrolls

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Michigan Hospitals Less Full Than Nonpandemic Years

Keeping occupancy down one of the rationales of ongoing lockdowns

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Word ‘Epidemic’ Missing From Law Whitmer Bases Unilateral Governance On

‘Epidemic’ does appear in the emergency law that limits how long she can go solo

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Union ‘Safety Strike’ Tells Detroit Teachers To Stay Home, But Will Students Show Up Remotely?

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Judge: ‘Governor Can Order Anything, Forever, A Truly Striking Concept In A Democratic Republic’

Appeals court judge dissents

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Should A Past Crime Bar Someone From Becoming A Roofer?

Michigan gets poor grades on licensing laws that keep reformed criminals unemployed

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Not Training Staff On COVID Symptoms And More Earns Speedway Station $6,300 Fine

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Michigan Health Official Calls COVID Survivors ‘Lucky,’ CDC Data Suggests Survival is Commonplace

Projections show that overall, victims have a very high chance of beating the disease

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Jobs Program Creates Jobs at Killer Cost

MBDP resources should go to higher priorities

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A Myth Too Politically Useful Not To Repeat: Schools In Poor Michigan Cities Get Less

Two politicians at Whitmer press conference keep it going

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Michigan's Jobless Will Get An Extra $300 Per Week In Federal Unemployment Benefits

Extra amount authorized under Trump executive order

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Most Michigan Schoolchildren To Have One Interaction With A Teacher Most Months

No in-person meetings required; four emails would qualify in two other months

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Hospital Bed Occupancy Rate Below Pre-Coronavirus Levels

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Michigan Unemployment Numbers Plummet As $600 Federal Bonus Ends

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Strike! Detroit Teachers Union Demands Teachers Stay At Home

Children may not return to school until number of cases ‘falls to nearly zero’

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Nearly Six Months Into Michigan Emergency, Lockdown Rationales Keep Changing

Normal life and large parts of state economy have been suspended since March 10

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Michigan's Corporate Welfare Programs Are a Bad Investment

Resources expended for these programs would be better spent on higher priorities

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Biden Plan Would Let Nation's Worst School District Shut Down Charter Competitors

Detroit school district has long history of underserving the neediest students

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Schools Spend $228 Per Pupil On Supplies; Teachers Claim They Spend, Too

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Epidemiologists To Michigan Supreme Court: Lock Down State Until Vaccine

But that could be years

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What Defines 'State of Emergency?' What The Governor Says It Is

And the governor keeps changing the criteria

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