On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan. She was having a hard time talking about her job at the US Forest Service in the past tense. “I absolutely loved my job,” she said. “I didn’t want to go.” Richards, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe […]
LANSING – As educators across Michigan work to improve children’s early literacy skills, local schools and the Michigan Department of Education are celebrating March is Reading Month. Today State Superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice visited a second-grade classroom at Parchment School District’s Central Elementary School in Kalamazoo County. He read “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” by […]
The Trump administration has halted a $15 million Social Security study that involved the University of Michigan, whose president warns more cuts are likely that will have “serious repercussions” on the school’s budget. The Social Security Administration announced Friday it was ending cooperative agreements with research centers “addressing DEI in Social Security, retirement, and disability policy.” The Michigan […]
Michigan State University stands to lose as much as $23 million a year in federal grants as a result of President Donald Trump’s steep cuts to the US Agency for International Development. Project leads received a series of termination notices Wednesday for federally funded MSU programs aimed at improving higher education and researching agricultural best […]
Michigan schools that teach sex education would be required to provide instruction about consent, contraceptives and “all legally available pregnancy outcomes” under overhaul legislation introduced this week by House Democrats. The sweeping proposal would also lift a longstanding ban on distributing condoms at schools and require sex ed instruction to be “medically accurate,” age-appropriate, and “trauma-informed” without […]
LANSING — “Dark money” helped Democratic nominees grow their ideological advantage on the Michigan Supreme Court last week, according to a Bridge Michigan analysis of campaign finance records. Groups that do not disclose donors had spent more than $5 million on the races through late October, topping the combined $4 million raised by the four […]
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is nearly four decades old. Hezbollah emerged in response to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Since that time, Hezbollah and Israel have repeatedly engaged in battles and conflicts of varying degrees and intensity, most notably in 2006 when Hezbollah is largely viewed as having defeated Israel. Recently, Israel […]
A majority of local government and law enforcement officials in Michigan say they lack confidence the state’s new “red-flag law” aimed at reducing gun violence will do so, according to a University of Michigan survey. Further, those officials expressed concern that local law enforcement officers may not yet have sufficient training to know when an […]
Donna Brazile, a Washington D.C. political strategist and regular national news contributor, will be the keynote speaker at Muskegon Community College’s 25th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Breakfast, which had been postponed in January to Friday, June 10, at its new location inside the VanDyk Mortgage Convention Center in downtown Muskegon. The event, […]
Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border. “The most important border … for us is not Ukraine’s border but America’s border,” thundered Trump. “Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Europe, […]