This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan (bridgemi.com), a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. To get regular coverage from Bridge Michigan, sign up for a free Bridge Michigan newsletter here. A taxpayer-funded report on Michigan’s tribal boarding schools — and ...
LANSING — Sen. Sean McCann, D-Kalamazoo, is the sponsor of legislation to extend the state’s bottle deposit law so that it will include containers of noncarbonated beverages, water and hard cider. Voters overwhelmingly passed the 10-cent-per-container law in 1976, and McCann’s bill would ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Energy company Enbridge has finally started work on rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin after seven years of legal wrangling, moving ahead despite two new lawsuits that still could delay the project indefinitely. About 12 ...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday announced that her office will focus on childhood education and trying to put more money in Michanders’ pockets during her final year in office, proposals that will include lifelong literacy efforts, increased school funding and what she called the ...
NORWAY — Norway Junior/Senior High School students are trying their voices at podcasting. Thanks to a $250 mini-grant from the Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel, mathematics and English teacher Cassandra Gustafson was able to launch a student-run podcasting project to promote ...
Months after a woman in state custody died from a treatable infection, Michigan lawmakers from both parties raised concerns over what they described as systemic failures at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, state Rep. Laurie ...