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The 44-cent solution
What can you buy with 44 cents? You can get one postage stamp, at least for the next 12 days, when the cost of mailing a letter jumps to 45 cents. You could buy an eighth ...
Small schools dominate championships
With 171 students, Northport Public Schools has fewer kids in kindergarten through 12th grade than Okemos High School has in its marching band alone. Mackinaw City has 187 students; Alba, 174; Stanton Township, 138. All are ...
Library investment pays off for Lakeshore
Lakeshore’s state academic championship for 8th grade reading began long before the MEAP tests were placed on rows of desks in the Stevensville school. For years, the district, along the Lake Michigan shore in Southwest Michigan, ...
Southfield wins graduation ‘game’
Football is full of statistics: rushing yards per game; total offense; turnovers; yards after catch; passing efficiency. In the end, though, the only numbers that matter are on the scoreboard. Did you win or did you ...
And the winners are …
Sixty Michigan public school districts claimed at least a tie for a championship in one of eight academic categories in Bridge Magazine’s Academic State Championships. Champion districts are listed in alphabetical order, regardless of division. (BRIDGE ...
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State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
What would be the goal of the RTA? Is the priority to design a rapid,
Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
For a quick look at a state with a good "dashboard", read this piece a
Poverty rises even as economy turns
Since the 1960s 4 out of 5 manufacturing jobs have been lost to automa
Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
Wait a minute here, Snyder and the Repugs gave $1.8 Billion to corpora
State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
Thank you for calling out the legislature for dragging their feet on a