The Trump administration cut a combined $4.5 million in criminal justice grant funding for Michigan-based organizations as part of a broad cost-cutting effort. Advocates say the move could cost lives. Local law enforcement groups say it’s too early to tell.
Michigan’s two majority-Black congressional districts are eliminated. Eight of 14 incumbents would have to face off against each other or run in different districts.
The results, published this week in the journal Nature, showed that mercury levels in plankton and fish fell more quickly than expected once new sources of mercury were cut off.
Republicans are using Michigan’s unique law in an attempt to tighten voter ID laws, limit emergency health orders and create a new tax credit program to fund private school education.
The first-ever COVID treatment in a pill drops risk of hospitalization and death for those infected by 89 percent, according to drugmaker Pfizer. But only some people will qualify to get it.
The Buckeye state used federal funds to freely distribute 4.8 million at-home COVID tests at libraries, schools, rec centers and union halls. Michigan is nowhere close to those numbers as the holidays loom.
The fast-tracked plan is part of a broader effort to boost the state’s chances of attracting about $64.8 billion in new advanced manufacturing investments. Among them: A GM battery plant near Lansing.
On Jan. 12, Bridge Michigan environment reporter Kelly House will moderate a Zoom discussion about the federal program tasked with cleaning toxic sites throughout the Great Lakes basin.