The group behind the petition drive intends to work with the GOP Legislature to evade a veto by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Critics say it’s another GOP effort to use public money for private schools that runs afoul of the Michigan Constitution.

Republicans have controlled the chamber since the early 1980s. The new districts lean Democratic 20-18. Now begins a 45-day public comment period before final approval.

The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association is flush with a $5 billion surplus. State law would call for refunds beginning in 2022, but Whitmer wants them now.

Amanda Hedges-Harrison is among 22,000 people who accepted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s offer of tuition-free community college. Cost is only one reason that busy adults, many with children and jobs, don’t complete degrees.

The lab-made treatment has expanded beyond people with mild cases of COVID. It’s now also used to shield high-risk groups from contracting the virus.

The search warrant comes after a voting tabulator went missing and a clerk who expressed support for QAnon was stripped of her authority to run next week’s election.

The FDA authorized the Pfizer pediatric vaccine Friday, following recommendations from its advisory committee. Next up: CDC consideration Tuesday, which means the vaccine could be authorized for young children by the end of next week.

The fight has just begun as Republicans circulate a petition for identical legislation to tighten Michigan’s voter identification law, limit absentee ballot application mailings and bar private grants for election administration.

On Nov. 16, Bridge Michigan reporter Ted Roelofs will moderate a Zoom discussion with three elder caregiving experts on the causes and some possible solutions to the state’s caregiving crisis.

Other states have ‘unpacked’ districts to make legislatures more competitive without diluting minority voices. Can Michigan?

The pandemic has produced an outdoors renaissance with huge traffic at state and local parks. It now appears the Democratic governor and GOP legislature largely agree on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to address long-deferred maintenance.

Michigan State Police are investigating after a voting machine went missing in rural Hillsdale County, where a clerk who has expressed support for QAnon had refused to allow routine maintenance on the machine.