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New laws signed by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aim to expand automatic voter registration, deter political ‘deepfakes’ and ‘fake electors’ while limiting the kind of pressure campaign former President Donald Trump waged in his failed attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The proposed EPA rule follows years of growing awareness of lead’s perils following the 2014 Flint water crisis. Michigan regulators support the rule, but say the state will need more money to meet the more aggressive timeline.
Lawmakers are exploring whether streaming providers like Netflix and Hulu should have to pay the fees cable companies currently pay to local governments.
Facing a growing campaign to remove her, the Michigan Republican Party chair dumps critics from internal committees. Some are flabbergasted: ‘Were you drunk?’ one prominent Republican asks Karamo.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed clean energy bills in Detroit on Tuesday that aim to meet the goal of making the state 100 percent reliant on clean energy by midcentury.
Signs are popping up of a national economic slowdown, but Michigan’s workforce continues to grow and diversify, making the state less vulnerable than many others to a downturn, University of Michigan economists predict.
Teachers know that classrooms built to the needs of each student are more successful than the one-size-fits-all curricula that are the norm. An individualized or small-group learning model will allow our students to soar.
