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Governor Boasts 228 New Jobs; Yet Around 800,000+ Jobs Created Most Years

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State’s Data Show Masks In Schools Don’t Work, Tells Kids To Wear Them Anyway

Age 5-18 COVID transmission rates almost the same regardless of school mask rules Read more

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Failed Corporate Welfare Flashback: Company Warned, ‘We Have Never Been Profitable’

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Two-Thirds Of COVID Deaths In This Region Were People Age 70-Plus

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Michigan Home, Apartment Owners Have Earned $660 Million From Airbnb

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Bipartisan Votes Send New $1 Billion Corporate Welfare Program To Michigan Governor

‘How is it morally fair to collect taxes from the thousands of businesses ... to pay out to larger businesses?’ Read more

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State Paid Company To Create Michigan Jobs — Or Move Them Elsewhere

One of Granholm’s failed electric car battery deals Read more

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Steady Enrollment, More Teachers: The State of Kentwood Public Schools

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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Nice Work: $224,000 School Pension Plus $72,000 County Job

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Students All Created Equal, But Some State Universities Get Much More From Taxpayers

U-M getting $13k per student from state vs. less than $4k at Oakland and Grand Valley Read more

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Teacher-Shortage Claims Breaking Out All Over, But Actual Numbers Often Different Story

For example, there are more teachers for fewer students in this Macomb district over three years Read more

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Few Outside Government Get This Michigan School Retiree Benefit

Pension checks with 3% COLAs, which are mostly ancient history in the private sector Read more

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