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If Michigan’s experience is similar to other states, brace yourself for lower standardized test scores and bigger gaps between racial and income groups, caused by the pandemic.
Measures to tighter voter ID laws, bar mass mailings of absentee ballots and forbid private funding for public elections would bypass Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Schools tried a bit of everything to keep students safe last year. Some of those efforts are being pared back now as schools and health officials learn more about what appears to help reduce COVID, and what doesn’t.
Supply shortages and fewer workers are stretching some of the largest companies in the state. But overall, most have returned — or burned past — 2019 sales totals for the second three months of the year.
“People are at their wits’ end” when they learn how the pandemic has impacted what refrigerators, washers or other products are available, and how soon the store can get them. Customer flexibility can speed the process.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer does not appear to be planning another state-level eviction moratorium after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal version. Housing advocates fear “horrific consequences” for Michigan renters.
Michigan’s largest insurers had waived patient cost-sharing for COVID testing and treatment as COVID tore through the state beginning last year. Now, with readily available vaccines, that financial help is about to stop.
As the delta variant continues to drive infection rates up, the vaccinated are seeing cases rise too. But health officials say the vast majority of those being hospitalized with serious illness have not been vaccinated.
