Regional News

Thu, Oct 21, 2021 3:51 PM

(The Center Square) – When Liesl Clark, director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), was...

Thu, Oct 21, 2021 2:10 PM

(The Center Square) – A bipartisan bill aims to revive a killed business subsidy incentive that they say will spur new job...

Thu, Oct 21, 2021 10:44 AM

(The Center Square) – Several protesters of the group Detroit Will Breath broke into a pump station facility Tuesday along Line...

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 3:44 PM

(The Center Square) – Michigan doles out millions of taxpayer dollars to its universities with the promise they will train...

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 1:51 PM

(The Center Square) – A majority of U.S. citizens favor some sort of scholarship program that would offer tax credits for...

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 12:18 PM

The average cost of a college education in the United States is $35,720 a year -- three times higher than it was two decades ago....

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 11:47 AM

(The Center Square) – The group that started the petition that eventually spawned the Michigan Independent Citizens...

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 11:40 AM

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a proposal to spend $32 million on law enforcement officer training and...

Tue, Oct 19, 2021 3:28 PM

(The Center Square) – In what was characterized as a blow against the state constitution’s Blaine amendments, members of the...

Tue, Oct 19, 2021 2:44 PM

(The Center Square) – The Michigan House Elections and Ethics Committee heard testimony on four election bills on Tuesday. ...

Tue, Oct 19, 2021 9:35 AM

(The Center Square) – The Michigan Senate plans to probe documents related to the Benton Harbor water crisis stemming from lead...

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 3:25 PM

(The Center Square) – Emails show that in May 2020, the federal government warned Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance (UIA) about...

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 12:10 PM

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer may have to return $3.4 million in campaign funds received from major donors. ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 11:52 AM

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed two GOP elections bills on Friday. The first-term Democrat...

Sun, Oct 17, 2021 8:03 AM

The United States has some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. U.S. Federal Reserve data shows...

Fri, Oct 15, 2021 10:13 AM

(The Center Square) – A Court of Claims Judge ruled Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson must release more internal...

Thu, Oct 14, 2021 4:11 PM

(The Center Square) – The GOP-led Michigan House of Representatives approved three bills Thursday that aim to change election...

Thu, Oct 14, 2021 1:19 PM

(The Center Square) – For more than two years, state officials failed to control harmful lead levels in Benton Harbor’s water...

Thu, Oct 14, 2021 12:58 PM

(The Center Square) – Michigan’s 65-and-older demographic has grown to approximately 25% of the state’s population; 37% of the...

Thu, Oct 14, 2021 11:23 AM

(The Center Square) – A statewide coalition is backing a spending schedule of $6 billion of federal government money from the...