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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
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan’s one-room schoolhouses make one last stand
In an era where consolidating government and creating “efficiencies” is the mantra, there are 16 one-room schoolhouses still operating across lower Michigan, often in the shadow of larger schools districts. Do they have a future?
Posted inTalent & Education
Four siblings, a single classroom
The vast majority of families that pick one-room schools for their children do so through Michigan’s broad school choice law. For Paul and Jeanine Starcher, choosing Verona Mills was a way to keep their quadruplets in one classroom.
Posted inMichigan Government
Michigan police big and small defend use of military gear
A Bridge database tracks Humvees to bandages, snowshoes to sleeping bags, rifles to ratchet straps, given by U.S. military to local police.
Posted inUrban Affairs
Mapping out how Detroit is tackling a mountain of blight
Faced with derelict properties across the city, leaders choose a strategy that produces measurable results in a few, targeted neighborhoods.
Posted inTalent & Education
Good school. Struggling school. All in the same district.
Some Michigan school districts have top-rated schools, along with some of the worst. If poverty doesn’t explain the gap, what does?
Posted inTalent & Education
Champs Part II: Bridge celebrates first-ever rankings of Michigan schools
Bridge goes beyond district rankings to gauge the performance of elementary, middle and high schools across the state.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan's overachieving school districts are State Champs
Bridge proudly recognizes the most overachieving districts in the state in 2014. Next Tuesday: Bridge releases its first-ever state rankings for individual schools.
Posted inTalent & Education
Braving Upper Peninsula winters, Michigan Tech grads strike gold
The hard-working, selective school in Houghton is quietly filling industry’s need for STEM engineers.
Posted inTalent & Education
Getting Michigan students interested in STEM careers
While business and education leaders have sounded the trumpet on the need for more STEM graduates, the field can seem daunting to young students.