Bridge creates Michigan’s first precinct-level map showing how your neighborhood or community voted in the presidential election.
Quality of Life
Michigan is a great place to live. Bridge will report that fact often — and on potential threats to the assets that make it so.
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A conservative and two liberals swapped news feeds. It didn’t end well.
The “un-American” New York Times and the “nightmare” Drudge Report: A Troy conservative and two Ann Arbor liberals discover just how wide the news divide has become.
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Take two hits of Maui Wowie and call me in the morning: Baby boomers in the age of medical marijuana
Bad knees and all, a Bridge writer joins the middle-aged rush to marijuana dispensaries across Michigan
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Amid strikes and spares, Muslim nervousness that the game has changed
Four couples, two lanes, 10 frames – when the president makes you feel unwelcome, sometimes you just have to go bowling.
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About the project “Michigan Divided”
Bridge is following 11 Michigan people and families throughout 2017 to try to pierce the bubbles in which they, and the rest of us, live.
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Meet Michigan's divided
Can 11 passionate Michigan residents and families reach across the political and cultural chasms that too often divide our state?
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An election. An inauguration. A divided state.
The gulf between us is bigger than ever. How do we find common ground?
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In possible swansong, Cabela’s celebrates northern Michigan
Nine starstruck Michiganders were delighted to share covered bridges, barn doors and their own dashing good looks to promote this year’s holiday catalog for the iconic retailer, which recently announced its sale to a rival
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How Cabela’s captured its Michigan fantasy photos
The cult-like hunting and outdoors retailer chose idyllic settings across wintry Michigan for this year’s Christmas catalog. Here’s the story behind each one.
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As deer hunting season opens, a fierce debate over using bait
Wildlife experts concerned about the spread of chronic wasting disease face off against more than a half-million deer hunters in Michigan. Money, as well as trophies, hang in the balance.