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On today's show, Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum joined to discuss recent candidates that were deemed ineligible for the Michigan primary, and a Wayne State professor taught about Malcom X and his Michigan roots. Plus, an IPR feature discussed pandemic-related student burnout.
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A bill, introduced last month by Republican Rep. Pamela Hornberger (R-Chesterfield Township), would establish a grant program to pay student teachers and their teaching mentors. It seeks to help address Michigan's ongoing teacher shortage.
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An independent inquiry into the mass shooting at Oxford High School is being pushed back.
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Legislation aimed at helping Michigan students who show signs of dyslexia made it out of the state Senate Wednesday.
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The district says its facilities plan will be paid for with $1.2 billion of COVID relief funding.
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Some inmates received a college degree this week at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia.
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The first lunar eclipse of 2022 will take place on May 15 and 16, depending on your time zone. Lunar eclipses occur when the earth slides between the sun and moon, obstructing the light that normally illuminates our moon.
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A proposal to change Michigan's term limits rules heads to ballot. A look at how the pandemic affected the mental health of teenagers and what help can be provided. Planned Parenthood of Michigan prepares for the overturn of Roe V Wade. And what the Michigan Supreme Court must consider with challenges to the state's 1931 law banning abortions.
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There was a big debate in the state House this week on language in the nearly $20 billion K-12 schools budget that would financially sanction schools that allow transgender athletes to compete outside their sex assigned at birth.
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The state has received federal approval for a third round of pandemic assistance
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Public officials cut the ribbon Monday for the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on Michigan State University’s campus
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Matt Smith pled guilty to making a malicious phone call to a Democratic county clerk in the Upper Peninsula in 2020. A petition to recall him from his seat on the Davison Community Schools board fell 38 votes short.