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Michigan Supreme Court Looks At Intrusive Police Fingerprint Collecting

A Mackinac Center amicus brief backs ACLU's complaint, along with Cato Institute and others

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Traverse City’s Government Broadband Scheme Falling Short, Yet Marquette Wants To Do The Same

Residents’ electric bills go up when municipal utilities’ broadband adventures can’t meet their debts

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Grand Ledge Schools Get Heat For Hiring MSU Critical Race Theory Advocate

‘Schools are manifestations of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal educational enterprise’

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State's Outdated Messaging On Vaccine Effectiveness Hides Recent Trends

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School Mask Agony: Two Public Education Systems, Two Policies, One Shared Building

It’s happening in Midland and illustrates parents' challenges

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Could Be Worse: Study Finds Michigan’s Regulatory Burden On Business Less Than Nearby States

Mercatus Center finds this to be the least-bad Great Lakes state

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Health Department Issues Scary Kids-In-COVID-Ward Headlines From Elsewhere; Just 12 In Hospital Here

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Michigan's ‘Are Vaccines Working?’ Report Covers Period When Vast Majority Of Residents Were Not Vaccinated

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Don’t Forget The Other Taxpayer Dollars Detroit Schools Collect: Debt Relief

Two legal entities, one created by a state bailout to repay old debt, the other to operate classrooms

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Schools Serving Michigan’s Poor Cities Get More Taxpayer Dollars, Not Less

Benton Harbor schools received twice as much per student in 2019-20 as those serving its affluent neighbor St. Joseph

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Just In Time For 2021 Inflation Spike, Michigan Gas Tax Getting Cost-Of-Living Increase

Levy was approved in 2015 when annual price increases were still modest

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School Policies On Student Face Mask Mandates Trigger Raucous Board Meetings

A growing movement among parents to pull children from districts over mask mandates

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Consumers Energy Has A Solar And Wind Electricity Plan

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Kent County Imposes Virtual Mask Ultimatum On Schoolchildren

Mask-up, or parents will likely have children at home for 10-day quarantines

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Report: U-M’s 163 Diversity Officers The Most Among Big US Universities

2.3 for every history instructor; ‘more focused on promoting narrow and divisive political agendas’

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Granholm Brings Michigan’s Failed Green Energy Subsidies To Washington

Former governor, now U.S. energy secretary, visits state promoting same plan as if it worked

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U-M Law Prof: Public Schools Must Reopen Or Won’t Get Money Under Law Signed In July

State budget requires ‘Each district shall provide at least 1,098 hours and 180 days of instruction’

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Scary-Sounding Oakland COVID News Story Missing Key Facts/Context

In county of 1.26 million, there are 67 COVID admissions in its biggest hospitals

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School Sports Reopening Group’s Fall Campaign: Pull Kids From Schools With COVID Mandates

Organizers: ‘There are many other options out there and together we can make it work!’

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Agencies Use Questionable Legal Reviews To Inflate Charges For Open Record Law Requests

Almost half of one $12,000 charge went to attorneys

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Public Health Officials Oppose Placing Limits On Their Power

Restraints will bring ‘suffering and death’

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More Michigan Teachers Per Student Now Than 10 Years Ago

A modest 2% decline in teacher numbers swamped by 8.6% plunge in enrollment

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State’s Initial Epidemic Responses Guided By ‘Worst Case But Possible’ Scenario

The reality fell short

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Legionnaires’ Disease Spike Cited To Justify Extended Lockdowns, But They May Have Triggered It

Argument related to campaign to ban unlimited government by emergency order

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88% Of Detroit Third Graders Below Proficient In Reading; New Law Held None Back

Law that bars moving along children who can’t read filled with exceptions

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