Counties are working overtime to fill in potholes. Some road commissioners say this is one of the most severe pothole seasons they have experienced.
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Reality check: Whitmer’s budget is massive. But so are Michigan’s problems.
Gretchen Whitmer’s $74 billion budget would be by far the largest in state history. But problems with roads, schools, infrastructure and broadband have been years in the making and became worse in the pandemic.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Use federal COVID cash to fix Michigan roads, cut taxes and debt
When Michigan is awash in extra funds and other compromises are tough to find, lowering tax burdens is something that ought to be attractive to people on both sides of the aisle.
Posted inMichigan Government
Michigan’s water systems in line for $3.3 billion. Much more is needed.
The state Senate allocates more than Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed, but Michigan’s infrastructure has been underfunded for years.
Posted inMichigan Government
No thanks: 45 conservative Michigan towns decline federal stimulus money
In Michigan’s slice of Trump Country, some communities say the federal stimulus isn’t worth the hassle. Their neighbors may get the money instead.
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How the $1.2-trillion Biden infrastructure bill will be spent in Michigan
The once-in-a-generation legislation promises to bring more than $10 billion in public works aid to Michigan, a state in dire need of upgrades to roads, dams and bridges, drinking water systems and other protections against climate change.
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Opinion | Michigan must stop sitting on billions in federal relief
At all levels of government in Michigan, federal COVID relief funds are a potential boon for public projects and programs that have endured decades of chronically low investment.
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Michigan in line for billions from infrastructure bill. Here’s where it would go
Michigan’s roads and bridges are in sorry shape. Biden’s infrastructure bill wouldn’t fix all of them.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Michigan’s soggy summer evidence of a global climate reckoning
The massive storms that ripped through southeast Michigan this summer are likely the state’s new normal, but our aging infrastructure was designed for the climate of the past.
Posted inThe Center for Michigan
Watch Bridge’s Lunch Break discussion on impact of climate change in Michigan
Bridge Michigan environmental reporter Kelly House moderated a Zoom discussion with two experts about our changing state and environmental justice.