Voters in rural areas of northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula say they have found their blunt savior in Donald Trump. Some are bracing for a fight if he loses
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Citizens cannot do their job of running their government if they don’t know what their public servants are doing.
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Will metro Detroit voters approve mass transit that most will not use?
Metro Detroit’s miserable public transit picture has a potential solution, requiring buy-in from those who use it and the businesses and communities that benefit from it. Whether voters will get on board remains an open question
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McPhail continues to lead Detroit charter school, faces more fines
Detroit Community Schools, run by former Detroit city attorney Sharon McPhail, faces $21k in monthly fines for continuing to employ her and another administrator who the state say lack proper certification as administrators. She has appealed.
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How long will Flint’s water chief remain unpaid?
Flint hired a former brigadier general to oversee replacement of its lead pipes. The Mott Foundation gave Flint money for his salary. So why hasn’t Michael McDaniel been paid? The answer tells you all you need to know about the slow pace of Flint’s recovery.
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Mott president on Flint: ‘You hit rock bottom multiple times’
Ridgway White says he is buoyed by the amount of philanthropic money flowing in to address Flint’s water crisis. But the Mott president tells Bridge he sees graver challenges in improving the city’s longer-term economic trajectory
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Michigan prosecutors defying U.S. Supreme Court on ‘juvenile lifers’
The U.S. Supreme Court has instructed states that only “rare” circumstances should keep juvenile offenders in prison for life. Despite this ruling, prosecutors across Michigan have filed petitions seeking to hold most juvenile lifers behind bars until they die
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In prison for decades, one juvenile lifer’s quest for redemption
Convicted of a Macomb County murder in 1992, Bosie Smith, now 41, has earned consistent praise for his leadership from prison staff and even a former warden
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Amid opioid crisis, few doctors use Michigan’s outdated drug monitoring tool
Michigan’s online system is supposed to detect physicians and patients who abuse prescription painkillers. But the current version is so slow most doctors don’t even bother. And a bill to update the system hardly seems a cure-all.
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Map: Addiction's deadly trail
Michigan has not been left out of the opioid epidemic that has engulfed the nation in recent years
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Northern Michigan counties vulnerable to HIV, hepatitis C outbreaks
Federal public health officials say 11 poor and rural Michigan counties share characteristics that make them ripe for illness, much of it stemming from drug abuse.