News Story

Happy Thanksgiving

And may we be around to give you 10 million more reasons to read us

Read more

News Story

Teacher Pay Flat at Insolvent Detroit Schools, But Union President's Pay Doubles

Detroit Federation of Teachers President Ivy Bailey goes from $70K to $134K

Read more

News Story

Obamacare in Michigan: 32 Percent More Than Projected Take Medicaid Expansion

State’s free ride about to end on free coverage for able-bodied adults

Read more

News Story

How Michigan Stands in the Way of Poor People Getting Medical Care

For Remote Area Medical, licensing laws are a challenge

Read more

News Story

Radical U-M Student Group Demands 'Sanctuary Campus' Walkouts

Thousands of students ditch class in response

Read more

News Story

Chamber: Concern Lansing Abatement Proposal Could Have 'Unintended Consequences'

They fear proposed process could be abused

Read more

News Story

Grass Roots Tax Group Helps Defeat Big Metro Transit Tax

Anti-tax group outspent $3.4 million to $54k

Read more

News Story

Safe Space? Ann Arbor Landmark Painted With 'Kill em All' After Trump Victory

Read more

News Story

State Gave Biofuel Company Millions for Unbuilt Plant

Taxpayers absorb losses, Ivy League professors reap windfall

Read more

News Story

Where Michigan’s Public Sector Union Laws Rank

Recent reforms earn a 'B' on national report card

Read more

News Story

Music in Motown: Private Detroit College Prepares Students for Music Careers

'It's all based on giving them something that they can't find anywhere else'

Read more

News Story

Rising Pension Costs Bury Michigan Schools Despite Past Tweaks to System

Tuesday's big Wayne County school tax hike proposal would only pay half of recent pension cost increases

Read more

News Story

Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back

Researchers find taxpayers pay big to ring resort cash registers just a little

Read more

News Story

U-M's New 'Chief Diversity Officer' Will Collect $385,000 per Year

Long-time activist also retains tenured professor status

Read more

News Story

Metro Detroit Transit Tax Assumes Funding From State and Feds That May Never Come

State and federal transportation agencies didn't review the plan

Read more

News Story

Some Upper Peninsula Residents In Revolt Over Federal Road Closings

U.P. Senator on Forest Service plan: 'They're not listening to the citizens'

Read more

News Story

Michigan High School Grad Rate Up as Detroit Schools Increases 30 Percent

But does this measure actual learning?

Read more

News Story

Oakland Officials Deny Hushing Up Report Critical of Transit Tax Proposal

County: $4.6 billion tax plan projections 'overly simplistic, erroneous'

Read more

News Story

State Spending Up and Up, But Spending Interests Cry Poverty

Spending has increased $6.4 billion over five years

Read more

News Story

EPA Expands Power by Calling Plowed Farm Fields 'Mini Mountain Ranges'

Federal rule could impose wetland permit mandates on plowing a field

Read more

News Story

Rights and Responsibilities Collide: Student Free Speech Bill Struggles

Schools have the responsibility, student journalists want the freedom

Read more

News Story

Here's Why You Deserve a State Income Tax Cut

Well-connected interests get their share; regular people wonder, ‘When's our turn?'

Read more

News Story

Tuition Up 3.9 Percent, But U-M Finds $85 Million More For 'Diversity'

'A poor choice of stewardship'

Read more

News Story

Got a Permit for That Garage Sale?

‘Compliance … is necessary'

Read more

News Story

Rumors of Unions' Post-Right-to-Work Death Exaggerated

'Unions have seen very little decline in membership'

Read more

View more