Build a Better Michigan had faced accusations it was a vehicle for “dark-money” contributions to the Democratic hopeful. Monday’s release showed more traditional union and progressive support.
Ted Roelofs
Ted Roelofs of Kentwood, has written extensively on healthcare as well as prison and juvenile justice reform. Roelofs spent nearly three decades at the Grand Rapids Press where he covered politics, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rural poverty and mental illness among the homeless. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Reach Ted at ted.roelofs@gmail.com
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Truth Squad | Gretchen Whitmer says she’s fought two governors on school aid
The Michigan Democratic candidate for governor has been a strong voice for a well-funded public education system in Michigan. We check her voting record.
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Truth Squad | Gretchen Whitmer says school aid money only meant for K-12
The Democratic candidate for governor has long criticized using state school aid funds for anything other than K-12 schools. Truth Squad explores the fine print.
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Michigan inmates may lose college funding. That’s bad news for the rest of us.
Studies show prison education more than pays for itself by making ex-cons less likely to reoffend. But funding for prison classes may well run dry by next summer. Should Lansing fill in the gap?
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Ionia warden: Calvin College program is transforming my prison
A college prison collaboration between Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary offers hope, leadership – and a degree – for lifers at an Ionia prison.
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Rapid transit projects hit the skids in three Michigan cities
Expensive systems in Grand Rapids and Detroit are performing below par. Another was axed in Lansing. What went wrong?
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How Ann Arbor boosted its bus system, as other Michigan cities struggle
Ann Arbor asked voters to pay for upgrades in bus service. They said yes – and ridership is up.
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Truth Squad | Gretchen Whitmer depicts Michigan teachers in poverty
The Democratic candidate for governor echoes claims by the state’s largest teachers’ union that there are Michigan teachers on food stamps to argue for raising pay.
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Truth Squad | Michigan Republican Tonya Schuitmaker attacks foe on DACA
A DACA recipient volunteered briefly last year in House Speaker Tom Leonard’s office. Does that turn the deeply conservative Leonard into a liberal ally of former President Obama?
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Michigan Attorney General candidate Dana Nessel attacked by her own words
A Republican group is using the progressive’s fiery, anti-Trump rhetoric against her in online ads. Is Nessel too extreme to win a general election? Or has she seized on a winning formula in a polarized era?