Child care creates long-term public good that is too often subsidized by those who can least afford it: families and care providers.

Students are finding fewer selections in school cafeterias this year because of supply chain issues.

Forget about Austin and Nashville. Randy Thelen, of The Right Place economic development group, is pitching West Michigan’s business community on becoming the nation’s next tech hotspot within a decade.

The healthcare worker shortage is reaching a critical point. There are steps the state could take to help.

Weeks after Gov. Whitmer renewed a request for lawmakers to spend federal COVID relief funds, House Republicans propose a plan for early treatment and prevention, health-care worker recruitment and testing.

Days after Michigan's redistricting commission voted not to release memos used to craft legislative boundaries, Bridge and other news outlets ask the Michigan Supreme Court to make them public.

Business groups cheer, conservatives jeer as the first-term Democrat tells rural business owners ‘we are going to lose state employees’ if a federal employer mandate becomes law.

Education is required from ages 6-16. State Board member Tom McMillin says that after a deadly school shooting in Oxford it’s time to rethink that practice. Other state education leaders dismissed the suggestion.

The package is intended to add safeguards to the Central Registry, a listing kept by the state child welfare program to identify adults who pose a threat to children. Critics say too many innocent adults get placed on the registry.