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Detroit Father Turns Boxing Interest Into Youth Enrichment Program

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Splitting atoms produces 25.5 percent of Michigan's electricity

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Officials Shortchange School Pension Fund 7th Year In Row

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Delayed Payment On Granholm Early Pension Gambit Raises Costs To Taxpayers

Michigan pension office helped pass costs to future taxpayers

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Union Enlists a Mayor to Endorse Fabulist Claims on Teacher Pay

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Michigan House Bill Would Impose Sanctions On 'Sanctuary Cities'

Ypsilanti, like Detroit and Ann Arbor, will forbid employees from asking a resident's immigration status

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Open Records Law: U-M Cashes The Check But Fails To Deliver The Info

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Michigan Environmental Office Repeatedly Stonewalls Record Requests

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Public School Union Members Protest Their Own Union

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Michigan Forfeiture Laws Improving, But State Transparency Still Falls Behind

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Federal Park Staffers Defy Presidential Order, Tweet Climate Change Warnings

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Ann Arbor School Board Member Weighs In On $150 Merit Pay

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Ann Arbor Schools: First There Is No Teacher Merit Pay, Then There Is

Law requires districts to offer it, so effective educators get a 0.2 percent pay bump

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Michigan College Busts Students For Giving Out U.S. Constitutions Without Permit

Asking passers-by if they 'like freedom and liberty' deemed 'too provocative'

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