Because of major cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan organizations are losing most of the $3 million in grants they’d been awarded. Among them: A studio for artists with disabilities.
Police were called after an alleged assault at a weekend meeting of the Michigan Republican Party’s state central committee meeting, following feuding over Kalamazoo County delegates.
The list of eligible vehicles gets shorter on April 18. The federal government is subsidizing electric vehicle purchases as it encourages manufacturers to move production from China to the U.S.
Tourism is big in Frankfort, but the Lake Michigan city is losing its year-round workforce. This year, its new land trust will sell houses for less than cost, hoping the affordability boost will balance the economy.
Michiganders are now keeping 21 percent of their waste out of landfills. The state aims to boost that to 45 percent, but disagreement lingers about how to get there.
Michigan is producing more engineers and fewer English majors as a shift toward science and technology fields comes as fewer are opting for liberal arts degrees. The shift also shows more women and minorities are graduating with STEM degrees, fields long dominated by men.
Dexter is one of a number of districts joining a federal suit against the developers of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, YouTube and others, contending their ‘addictive’ algorithms target vulnerable children and teens.
State officials wondered whether moving opening day from a fixed calendar date to the weekend would bring more interest to a waning sport. Turns out, Michiganders are deeply attached to the Nov. 15 tradition.
Michigan’s top economic development official said vetting of Gotion Inc. and other companies in line to receive state incentives will become more probing. Lawmakers have put the latest, $175 million Gotion incentive on hold.