Astronomers have discovered a small asteroid, 2025 PN7, that travels alongside Earth and behaves like a ‘quasi moon.’ You’ll need a good telescope to see it. Here’s where to find one in Michigan.
Michigan skywatchers turn eyes to Earth’s new ‘quasi moon’
Posted inMichigan Government
Feds deny Michigan request for homeowner aid following ice storm
FEMA has denied Michigan’s request for utility, home repair aid following March 2025’s historic ice storm. State officials called it disappointing.
Posted inThe Center for Michigan
Bridge Michigan News Quiz: Oct. 24, 2025: Fall for trivia
If you know Michigan news, prove it by answering these 10 questions.
Posted inMichigan Government
The odd way Michigan got hold of life ring from Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald. The artifact strangely became part of a settlement in a lawsuit that had nothing to do with the famous shipwreck.
Posted inMichigan Government
Whitmer pardons Hmong refugee facing deportation in ‘race against time’
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pardons Lue Yang, a Hmong refugee detained by immigration officials based on a decades-old criminal record already expunged by the state. Advocates are not sure where he is.
Posted inBusiness Watch
Swartz Creek shoots down $40M offer to sell school for Michigan megasite
In another setback for economic development officials, Genesee County officials reject a deal to sell a school to assemble land for a huge project. Sandisk had eyed a multibillion-dollar semiconductor plant on the land.
Posted inMichigan Government
Plea deal: Lee Chatfield aide to testify against him in Michigan corruption case
A top aide to former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield has agreed to testify against him in a corruption trial next year.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Michigan’s literacy reform should include nonpublic school teachers
The exclusion of these nonpublic schoolteachers from state-supported Science of Reading training is shortsighted, and it risks leaving behind thousands of Michigan students who all need effective reading instruction.
Posted inThe Center for Michigan
Bridge Culture Club discusses ‘The Invisible Mammal’ documentary
Kristin Tièche joined Bridge Culture Club this week to answer questions about her documentary about bats and the humans who help them.
Posted inMichigan Government
After billion-robocall barrage, Michigan lawmakers eye crackdown
With robocalls and spam texts on the rise, a new Michigan plan proposes fines of up to $100,000 and disclosure requirements.