Senate Democrats are pushing for new rules on hyperscale data centers they say could help consumers and the environment.
Michigan Senate Democrats push for stricter data center energy, worker rules
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Dana Nessel: ICE to offload Romulus warehouse eyed as future detention center
The Trump administration is expected to offload a Romulus warehouse it had planned as the future site of an immigrant detention center, reversing a controversial plan at the center of an active lawsuit.
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Michigan universities can’t study dispensary pot on campus. MSU went mobile
Federal cannabis restrictions make the drug extremely difficult for researchers to study. That means many of its health effects — positive and negative — have gone uncharted.
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Opinion | If we open up our nominations process, let’s do it right
There is a simple and cost-effective solution to improve primaries that maximizes voter participation, avoids vote-splitting, gives voters more meaningful choices and generates consensus with security, accuracy and transparency: ranked-choice voting.
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Michigan’s drug fight relies on harm reduction. RFK Jr. says it doesn’t work
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stopped in southeast Michigan Wednesday to announce a multimillion-dollar effort that shifts gears in the nation’s drug fight — away from harm reduction, while leaning in to spirituality and faith
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Don’t have a retirement plan? Michigan Senate bills could change that
Michigan Senate Democrats on Wednesday OK’d legislation to create state-managed retirement accounts for private sector employees without them.
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Michigan island needs reliable power. Can Great Lakes waves provide it?
University of Michigan researchers are this week testing a prototype that turns wave energy into electricity for the remote Beaver Island.
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Fact check: John James ‘kill switch’ claims rile Michigan governor’s race
In a new ad, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Perry Johnson claims rival John James supported a vehicle ‘kill switch mandate.’ His voting record is complicated. Here are the facts.
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Lawmakers grill Michigan Treasury over tax refund delays. ‘Are you sorry?’
Michigan Treasury says it’s completed 95% of income tax returns, but some have faced months-long delays tied to the state’s new GenTax system.
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Opinion | Parents should decide who has access to their children
Who is ultimately responsible for raising children? The answer is parents. Yet in the digital world, we have created a system that often sidelines them.