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Millions of Michiganders are under advisory through Wednesday after air currents pushed smoke from Canada wildfires to Michigan and other parts of the Midwest.
During the COVID pandemic, an unprecedented 3.1 million Michiganders were covered by Medicaid, the safety-net insurance program. The rule has expired, and Michigan is paring back its programs, with the first people losing coverage July 31.
Extreme weather will become a feature, not a bug, of Michigan’s landscape if we do not act soon to curb climate change. Support Democratic efforts to create a 100 percent carbon-free electricity standard by 2035.
Michigan’s bottle and can deposit law was once a national model. But the return rate plunged from 89 to 73 percent after the state temporarily banned deposit returns to curb COVID, and hasn’t risen much since.
Along the U.P. border, Michigan counties are losing people while their neighbors in Wisconsin are gaining. Local leaders say the Badger State’s investments in small businesses and infrastructure are paying off.
In an appeal to blue-collar voters, former President Donald Trump told Michigan supporters the Biden administration’s push toward an electric vehicle future will kill jobs and cost state taxpayers ‘hundreds of billions’ of dollars.