More kindergartners get their shots after the state made it harder to receive a waiver for them. Now, two lawmakers want to go back to the old system, but health officials say doing so is an invitation to trouble.
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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Database: Search vaccination rate of YOUR school
Immunization rates have risen in Michigan after a rule change. Use this database to see how your school compares.
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Interactive map: Vaccination rates across Michigan
Click on a county to see how rates changed overall and in public and private schools.
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Bridge asked readers to swap news sources for a week. The world answered. (slideshow)
It wasn’t always comfortable. But more than 200 brave souls from around the country (and six nations) switched to news feeds with a different political viewpoint. A few have yet to switch back.
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Cancer diagnosis brings clarity to one Trump voter
In Harbor Springs, Cynthia Shafer battles illness and political assumptions
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Interactive map: What political bubble do you live in?
Bridge creates Michigan’s first precinct-level map showing how your neighborhood or community voted in the presidential election.
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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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An election. An inauguration. A divided state.
The gulf between us is bigger than ever. How do we find common ground?