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In a speech to Oakland County activists, state Republican Party Chair Ron Weiser also announced plans for a petition drive to tighten voting laws to give the GOP an edge.
The number of Michigan teachers who are leaving classrooms is up 40 percent this school year compared to typical years, as the stress of pandemic teaching drives some to retire or resign.
The GOP wants openings, closings tied to specific coronavirus case rates. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has resisted, saying she needs to be ‘nimble’ during a pandemic.
Public health officials across the state are thinking about how to ease vaccine skepticism among many conservatives as COVID-19 surges once more through Michigan.
They are generally wary of the government or politicians, and questioned the process that yielded U.S. vaccines. Most are Trump supporters, with their own theories on the virus and why it was unlikely to harm them. Misinformation was not rare.
A Republican proposal would restrict confidential separation agreements such as the deal $155,000 to Gov. Whitmer’s former health director that some call ‘hush money.’
