Use these maps and tools to find out which judges — and courts — are more likely to pursue driving while intoxicated cases, rather than a lesser charge of driving while impaired.

Michigan had 26,700 drunk-driving arrests last year, half of which result in plea deals for impaired driving. Harsher penalties are far more common in west Michigan than in metro Detroit.

Michigan attorney Stephanie Lambert, now battling criminal charges in a tabulator tampering scheme, tried to force a ‘forensic audit’ of the 2020 contest backed by $1.2 million in funding from the former CEO of Overstock.com, according to newly released texts.

As Lansing considers creating an independent panel to cap the cost of prescription drugs, drug companies are running ads suggesting that doctors oppose this effort. Doctors support this panel to make drugs affordable for their patients.

In the aftermath of the Feb. 13 mass shooting, MSU encouraged an Ohio firm to focus on what the school ‘handled well’ in its response. It did not directly ask what failed. Experts say a warts-and-all review would have better served the university.

Clean energy opponents seek to portray wind and solar projects as an attack on rural communities. That’s not true. Renewable energy sites are helping to save farmland so families can pass properties to future generations.

After voter passage of Proposal 1, the Legislature is to implement financial disclosure laws for public officials by year’s end. We’re still waiting, even as Democrats with potential conflicts of interest take questionable votes.