Only Massachusetts and Georgia residents spend more on a per capita basis than Michigan. In 2022, $1.25 billion from the lottery went to Michigan schools.
Mike Wilkinson
Mike has been a reporter for Bridge Michigan since 2013 and focuses on data-assisted reporting, often finding stories by analyzing maps and data sets and has created Bridge's dashboards on COVID-19, the state's economy and Michigan's elections. He held similar positions at The Detroit News and The Blade of Toledo. A native of Michigan, Mike grew up in Macomb County, graduated from the University of Michigan and started his reporting career in New Baltimore before his career took him to Illinois, Tennessee and Ohio. You can reach him at mwilkinson@bridgemi.com
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MSU shooting: Rampage over in 8 minutes, timeline shows
A timeline released Friday also confirms that the Feb. 13 shooting that killed three students and injured five was over by the time MSU alerted students to the threat.
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What is Michigan Right-to-Work: How law impacted wages, jobs, unions
Democrats are moving fast to repeal the law that allows workers to opt out of paying dues in union-represented jobs and still receive benefits. Here are facts that shape debate.
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Michigan State shooting: University lacked security common on other campuses
A Bridge Michigan survey finds that automatic door locks, live video feeds are standard at several universities in Michigan. Several reforms are underway following a shooting that killed three students.
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MSU police can’t explain 13-minute alert gap, remain mum on shooting details
MSU police offered a new explanation Wednesday for why it took 13 minutes after the first shooting reports to issue an active shooter warning to students. In that time, the gunman had moved from Berkey Hall to the MSU Union, where a third student was killed.
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Classroom locks, active intruder training promised after MSU shootings
Interim President Teresa Woodruff announced a series of future security upgrades on Wednesday that range from restricting public access to buildings to school-wide training sessions following a deadly mass shooting Feb. 13.
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Michigan State shooting: Alerts to students delayed as police rushed to campus
All on-duty officers rushed to the gunman, leaving no one initially to send an alert to students to ‘run, hide, fight.’ The text came 13 minutes after the first 9-1-1 call, as the gunman had moved to another building.
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Michigan State weighs security plan after rampage. Here are some options
MSU is conducting a security review over the coming months. It’s a debate that seeks to balance the openness of a large, public university with keeping students and staff safe. Here is how other colleges have tried to protect students.
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Michigan State sought to be leader in campus security. Upgrades came too late
MSU has a sprawling camera system, but officials needed three hours to comb through footage to find an image of the suspected shooter. The university is moving to live camera surveillance.
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Michigan State dispatch logs: Anthony McRae spotted hours before he was caught
Within 20 minutes of a mass shooting, officers had multiple sightings of the man who police say killed three students and critically injured five others. A deluge of other tips may have diverted officers, the dispatch log suggests.