It’s part of a national rollout of the Black history course, which drew conservative criticism for topics that included Black Lives Matter, followed by progressive backlash after some of those topics were dropped.
In some Michigan counties, one in six adults have a license to carry a concealed handgun. The reason they carry guns is the same explanation Democratic legislators give for new weapon restrictions — safety.
Soaring state revenues will likely force the Whitmer administration to reduce Michigan’s personal income tax rate. But that cut is only for one year, the Democrat Attorney General contends. Republicans excoriated that legal interpretation.
Michigan residents can buy or renew a one-year fishing license in Michigan beginning Friday, March 31. Hunting and fishing activity has mostly declined in recent years.
The state is offering the automaker over $1 billion in funding as Ford plans a $3.5 billion investment in an electric vehicle battery factory about 20 miles east of Battle Creek.
If based solely by population, Michigan had the 10th worst COVID death rate of any state in the nation. But when adjusted for the state’s older and less healthy population, the state’s handling of the pandemic fares much better.
Grad student workers will stop teaching undergraduate students Wednesday morning, just weeks before classes end. The union is seeking a big pay increase. U-M vows legal action, saying a strike would violate the current contract and state law.
More than half of Michigan’s 83 counties passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries or proclaiming their right to ignore laws that don’t square with their constitutional principles.
