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Michigan news: Bridge Magazine Archive

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As climate change threatens Midwest cultural identity, cities explore how to adapt

November 11, 2019

Opinion | The veteran population is changing. We must change with it

November 9, 2019

Measures aim to end ‘surprise billing’ for Michigan medical patients

November 8, 2019

Experts: Pay teachers more to curb Michigan’s long-term substitute ‘crisis’

November 7, 2019

Michigan’s flu season turns deadly early, with some clinics short on vaccine

November 7, 2019

No deal: Senate GOP rejects possible budget compromise

November 7, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

Michigan counties profit from foreclosure. Supreme Court urged to halt law.

November 6, 2019

Michigan expanded preschool funding. Reading scores show it works.

November 6, 2019

Locals to Lansing: Get a budget deal, because cuts are getting real

November 6, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

Enbridge vows to cover costs in ‘unlikely’ case of Michigan Line 5 rupture

November 6, 2019

Opinion | John Conyers Jr. is laid to rest. His work, and legacy, live on in Michigan

November 5, 2019

Heaster Wheeler

Opinion | Enbridge is not working to protect Michigan waters

November 5, 2019

Attorney General Dana Nessel takes hard line in juvenile inmate rape cases

November 5, 2019

Juvenile rape accuser: ‘Regardless of what I did, I was still a child’

November 4, 2019

Michigan eyes reform to costly, confusing system of expunging criminal records

November 4, 2019

A year after pot became legal, Michigan still months away from retail sales

November 4, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

Michigan lawmakers want to expand tax break before it’s created a single job

November 1, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

Michigan judge rules Enbridge Line 5 construction is constitutional

October 31, 2019

Residents in these Michigan cities said yes to pot. Their leaders said no.

October 31, 2019

Alexandra Schmidt

Critics fear Michigan is promising the moon to land cloud data storage firms

October 31, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

The ABCs of CBD: What you should know before buying in Michigan

October 31, 2019

Costs drop for Michigan Obamacare insurance. But only after crazy increases

October 31, 2019

Opinion | Homelessness is solvable. We’re committing $5 million toward it

October 30, 2019

Kate Levin Markel

Michigan schools are now average. That’s progress.

October 30, 2019

Mike Wilkinson, Ron French

Still last among big cities, Detroit gains big in math on national test

October 30, 2019

SLIDESHOW: How Michigan schools boosted national ranking

October 30, 2019

For 10,000 Michigan counselors, bill’s passage a sigh of relief

October 29, 2019

Michigan Gov. Whitmer to GOP: I’ll make a budget deal, but won’t cede powers

October 29, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

When residents say ‘no’ to aerial mosquito spraying

October 29, 2019

Michael Schulson / Undark

Michigan environment roundup: Judge bars public from Wolverine World Wide PFAS hearing

October 29, 2019

Opinion | Bipartisan hope emerging on climate change

October 29, 2019

Mark Reynolds, Richard Barron

Beyond term limits: 5 ‘good government’ ideas eyed by Michigan reformers

October 28, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

John Conyers Jr., champion of Detroit and civil rights, dies at 90

October 27, 2019

Opinion | Michigan spending more on education, but teacher pay stagnant

October 27, 2019

Opinion | How a challenge helped us triple student voter turnout at U-M

October 25, 2019

Edie Goldenberg

Opinion | 'Clean Slate' should simplify, not complicate, expungement process

October 25, 2019

Jesse Kelley, Nila Bala

How a tax break to help the poor went to NBA owner Dan Gilbert

October 25, 2019

Jeff Ernsthausen, Justin Elliott

Water protection hits close to home for Grand Rapids audience

October 24, 2019

Applications open for new Michigan redistricting commission. What to know.

October 24, 2019

If literacy is a right, who pays bill, judge asks in Detroit schools suit

October 24, 2019

Wayne State bets the word 'free' will lure students like it has at U-M

October 24, 2019

Michigan Republicans say ‘the budget is done.’ Here’s what they really mean.

October 24, 2019

Bridge Magazine seeks a Michigan environment reporter

October 24, 2019

Michigan’s roads have turned to crap. So has a strike among road builders.

October 24, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

Opinion | Restore financial aid to Michiganders in prison

October 24, 2019

Bradley D. Custer

Opinion | Gov. Whitmer’s effort to ban vaping products was the right move

October 24, 2019

Is literacy a constitutional right? A Detroit legal case could decide

October 23, 2019

The Test: ‘Read-or-flunk’ law looms over Michigan third-graders

October 23, 2019

Anti-gerrymandering group may team with GOP to tackle term limits

October 22, 2019

Riley Beggin, Jonathan Oosting

Pure Michigan gets reprieve, but its future is cloudy amid budget showdown

October 22, 2019

Jonathan Oosting

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