Nonprofit led by a onetime aide to a lawmaker who championed a Clare health center was paid $823,000, records show. The state has paused payments and ordered an investigation.
Jonathan Oosting
Jonathan is a deputy editor for Bridge Michigan. He helps plan and execute in-depth reporting and campaign coverage. As a longtime political reporter, Jonathan was named 2021 Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. He and a colleague shared that honor again in 2023, when they were also named Journalists of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists – Detroit Chapter. Jonathan covered the state Capitol for The Detroit News and MLive before joining Bridge in September of 2019. He's from Grand Rapids, lives in Lansing and loves spending time Up North.
Posted inMichigan Government
‘Red flags’ surround $25M health campus pushed by ex-Michigan House speaker
The state is investigating a grant it awarded last year to a former aide of then-Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth that led to a $3.5 million land sale involving another lawmaker.
Posted inMichigan Government
Election-denying clerk ousted in recall: ‘Make Adams Township Boring Again’
A small-town elections clerk investigated by Michigan State Police after questioning the accuracy of her own voting machines lost a recall election Tuesday night in Adams Township, according to unofficial results.
Posted inTalent & Education
MSU shooting: Gunman had hundreds of bullets, walked away on busy streets
New details show lone gunman had alcohol and THC in system, took bus to campus, lingered for a while, and still had more than 200 bullets on him when he was confronted.
Posted inMichigan Government
Livingston declares itself ‘Constitutional County’ to resist gun reforms
Republican officials in Livingston County adopt a ‘Constitutional County’ resolution urging sheriff, prosecutor not to enforce Michigan ‘red flag’ gun control legislation that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law.
Posted inBusiness Watch
Gotion controversy tests longstanding Michigan-China economic ties
Michigan’s vote on whether to award the company a $175 million incentive comes after decades of trying to attract Chinese business — an effort that continues today, despite rising U.S.-China tensions.
Posted inMichigan Government
Good news, lascivious lovebirds: Michigan dumps ban on unwed cohabitation
Called ‘foolish’ and ‘silly,’ a 1931 ban prohibiting unmarried couples from ‘lewdly and lasciviously’ living together is repealed by the Michigan Senate.
Posted inMichigan Government
Michigan Supreme Court justice to enter mental health treatment
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein said he will miss oral arguments next week after choosing to “participate in short-term mental health treatment outside the state.”
Posted inMichigan Government
Michigan GOP infighting leads to actual fight between Karamo, DePerno backers
Police were called after an alleged assault at a weekend meeting of the Michigan Republican Party’s state central committee meeting, following feuding over Kalamazoo County delegates.
Posted inMichigan Government
Whitmer signs gun safe storage, background checks; House OKs 'red flag'
Two months after a mass shooting at Michigan State University, Gov. Whitmer returns to the campus to sign new gun reform bills.