State auditors found the Department of Civil Rights took on average 3 times the recommended time to resolve complaints. Some complaints were never even reviewed, ending up instead in an abandoned junk email folder.
The legislation, applauded by voting rights activists, would ensure departing inmates know they get their voting rights back by requiring them to receive ID and voting registration information.
In a 2-1 ruling, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel said the state failed to analyze the cost to businesses of complying with the stricter PFAS rules, as was required. The limits will remain in place, however, until the litigation is over.
Supporters of reviving film incentives say the legislation is a better deal for Michigan than the program that was axed in 2015. Detractors liken the proposal to a “Hollywood handout” that won’t move the state forward.
Thanks to federal and state relief funds, students in Michigan saw a boost in broadband access during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that boost is fading, particularly for rural students, as technological support goes away, according to a MSU study.
Michigan schools are responsible for supplying items that students need to learn. But teachers continue to spend hundreds of dollars from their own pockets and routinely ask families, friends and strangers to help.
It took years of resident complaints and millions in federal money but the lead water lines have finally been replaced. But now there's a growing challenge in this cash-strapped city: ever-increasing water bills.
U-M grad student instructors and staff assistants would win significant pay raises under the tentative deal following a bitter strike. Leaders hope to finalize the deal by Friday before the fall semester begins.
