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A group of Republican state lawmakers is going after two voter-approved Michigan constitutional amendments with a lawsuit in federal court.
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Rick Johnson admits he took at least $110,000 in bribes as head of a state marijuana licensing board. Johnson told a judge: “I am a corrupt politician.” -
An attorney for fired Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker wants university officials and representatives to preserve all documents related to its investigation of him.
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Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn't hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.
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Black ash trees are threatened by the invasive emerald ash borer. Indigenous groups have used the trees for traditional basket making for generations. New research from Michigan State University explores the link between the pest and the basket making tradition.
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One side of the monument reads “It’s Everybody’s Fight” and has a LIFE magazine cover as well as names of other Michiganders who, like Liuzzo, headed down to Selma in 1965 to register voters.
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Additional license plate reading cameras in Detroit, a five-year pilot program that aims to plant 75,000 trees throughout Detroit, freshwater jellyfish, the new Census category for Middle Eastern and North African communities, and a tech start-up that monitors air quality.
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The state House voted along party lines Wednesday to approve a package of bills to make it easier for people to vote.
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New Michigan Senate bills are trying to solve issues with the state’s 2019 auto no-fault insurance law.
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Invasive spotted lanternflies have been detected in Michigan. The insects pose a threat to plants, crops, and properties.
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The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered all judges to address people in court by the pronouns they use or by “other respectful means.”
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The DNR plans to reintroduce Arctic grayling to Michigan waterways. The fish were wiped out in the state in the 1930s, and attempts to reintroduce them in the 1980s failed.
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President Biden joined UAW workers on the picket lines. Trump holds a meeting at a non-union parts distributor. What message do these visits send and who are they for?
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Reactions to presidential visits to Michigan this week, the Detroit Tigers' Spanish broadcasts, and a shop in Lansing’s Old Town neighborhood that specializes in vintage and goth-adjacent style.
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Michigan State fired Mel Tucker on Wednesday, saying the suspended football coach failed to present adequate reasons why he should not be fired for cause after having what he described as phone sex with an activist and sexual assault survivor.
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The federally threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake is Michigan's only venomous snake species. The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids is working to preserve the species with field monitoring and captive breeding. Michigan has the most eastern massasaugas out of all the states where they're found.
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Former President Donald Trump will be working to win over blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers’ strike.
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