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Michigan has pledged $2 billion to five companies promising huge investments. The projects are behind amid flux in the auto industry. Here’s where they all stand.
Director Michael Loukinen joined Bridge Michigan to discuss his documentary film about community and ethnic identity in a small town of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Michigan poultry farmers have a beef with cattle, arguing the state has largely ignored calls for additional cow containment measures to stop the aggressive bird flu virus that has spread across several counties.
Michigan is grappling with increasingly expensive climate-related weather incidents and disasters. But the state’s primary recovery fund is $15 million short of projected costs.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, antidepressant dispensing has increased by 64% among adolescents, thanks to an increase in anxiety and depression diagnoses.
A House committee passed a $6 billion plan to set aside $2.5 billion for corporate incentives over the next 10 years and funnel more money to transit and housing. It faces tougher prospects in the full House.
The risks outweigh the benefits of the EPA’s tailpipe emissions rule. Eliminating consumers’ ability to choose what vehicle they drive would wreak havoc across a state so dependent on the automobile.