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Michigan Unemployment Numbers Plummet As $600 Federal Bonus Ends

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Strike! Detroit Teachers Union Demands Teachers Stay At Home

Children may not return to school until number of cases ‘falls to nearly zero’ Read more

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Nearly Six Months Into Michigan Emergency, Lockdown Rationales Keep Changing

Normal life and large parts of state economy have been suspended since March 10 Read more

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Michigan's Corporate Welfare Programs Are a Bad Investment

Resources expended for these programs would be better spent on higher priorities Read more

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Biden Plan Would Let Nation's Worst School District Shut Down Charter Competitors

Detroit school district has long history of underserving the neediest students Read more

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Schools Spend $228 Per Pupil On Supplies; Teachers Claim They Spend, Too

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Epidemiologists To Michigan Supreme Court: Lock Down State Until Vaccine

But that could be years Read more

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What Defines 'State of Emergency?' What The Governor Says It Is

And the governor keeps changing the criteria Read more

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Stores Could Be Committing Coronavirus Crime If Hand Sanitizer Less Than 60% Alcohol

Using 'best efforts' a defense but it's not defined Read more

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Union Contracts Protect Bad Cops, Mayors’ Report Says

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Two Day 1943 Riot Inspired Law Authorizing 159-Days-And-Counting State Of Emergency

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State Will Pay Schools For Unenrolled 'Ghost' Students

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Court Tosses Politicians’ Lawsuit Against Residents For Critical Comments

Action by township board members is a frivolous affront to free speech, circuit court rules Read more

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One Michigan Child Age 5-To-14 Has Died Of COVID-19; Four Of That Age Group Died From Flu

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Teacher Fired For Dissing Liberals, U-M Prof Got Raises After ‘I Hate Republicans’

To save his job, district demanded teacher admit he was wrong Read more

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Fauci Poor-Mouths As 'Government Worker'; His Federal Job Pays $417,608

Average federal worker gets $124,600 in pay and benefits Read more

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Law Whitmer Cites For Unilateral Emergency Powers Used Just Once Before In 43 Years

Other governors have used less undemocratic 1976 emergency law dozens of times Read more

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Virus Killed 2,021 In Nursing Homes; Whitmer Defends Not Letting Them Bar COVID Patients

Average age of Michigan coronavirus fatalities is 75.4 years Read more

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School District And Superintendent Both Get More —But Not Enough, He Says

Wayne County district gets $862 more per student more than in 2010; his after-inflation hike since 2014 is 4.6% Read more

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Whitmer’s Unilateral Governance Opposed By More Than Just Trump Supporters

About two dozen lawsuits filed against Michigan governor by a variety of interests Read more

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State Offers Corporations $593,913 On Average To Create A Single Job

New Mackinac Center study questions the return from corporate handouts Read more

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Schools May Be Empty But State Superintendent Says Send Money Anyway

Wants funding to be based on same student counts - even if there are no 'live' students Read more

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Did Michigan See 7,431 People Die In April, Or 13,011? Watch Those Revisions

For just COVID-19 the state initially reported 2,386 April deaths; revisions now indicate there were 3,232 Read more

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112 Outbreaks In Nursing Homes, 5 In Bars - So Lock Down The Bars?

Michigan governor defended placing virus patients in nursing homes, and just closed inside service at bars Read more

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Whitmer Speaks At Event That Appears To Violate Her Own Orders

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