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The coronavirus is straining Michigan local governments already under strain for years.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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11/6/20
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Donovan Hohn has been there, part of what he describes as a preoccupation with “trying to make sense of where we are, where I live, by attending to the natural and the human both, by looking at places where the natural and historic overlap.”
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Eric Freedman
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11/6/20
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Back in 2006, when the Michigan Democrats last flipped the majority in the state House, the Republican floor leader at the time, Steve Tobocman, sat down with the incoming speaker on how to create a more bipartisanship atmosphere.
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Kyle Melinn
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11/5/20
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Nearly 100 retired city employees gathered at Lansing Mayor Andy Schor’s house on Moores River Drive last week to protest a series of changes to their healthcare plans set to take effect next year.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/5/20
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The city of Lansing is still refusing to release several key details after videos and reports showed that four police officers directly contributed to the death of an inmate in April.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/4/20
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Anthony Hulon and his father, Stoney, chatted every Sunday about NASCAR races.
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Lansing city retirees are up in arms over Mayor Andy Schor’s decision to rein in the city’s burgeoning legacy costs by reducing retiree health care benefits.
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Staff
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11/4/20
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A challenge of the votes cast in Michigan to decide the next U.S. president wasn’t overly surprising news to those gathered outside the Capitol earlier tonight.
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Sean Bradley
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11/4/20
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With a surge in absentee voting across the country, immediate results were not expected. But it hasn't made the wait any easier more than 16 hours after polls closed on Election Day.
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Sean Bradley & Skyler Ashley
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11/4/20
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With less than four hours remaining until polls close this evening, hundreds of voters have already made it out to cast their votes across Greater Lansing today.
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Kyle Kaminski and Sean Bradley
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11/3/20
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The Lansing City Council will vote next month on a vaguer version of a resolution that had initially called for cutting in half the Police Department budget over the next five years. Instead, the new proposal calls for “significant” budget cuts with no set time frame.
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Still haven’t made plans to vote on or before Tuesday, Nov. 3? We’ve got you covered.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/29/20
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Six days away from the most consequential election of our lifetime. Six days before a national reckoning that will change the course of American history
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Staff
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10/29/20
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Officials at the Ingham County Health Department are beefing up coronavirus-related crowd restrictions on outdoor gatherings in East Lansing ahead of this Saturday’s football game between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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10/29/20
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Michigan requires political candidates to report donations and expenditures of their campaigns, but it can be challenging to track them.
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BRANDON CHEW AND TAYLOR HAELTERMAN
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10/29/20
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Leading up to the 2020 election, candidates for sheriff in Michigan’s 10 most populated counties received over $69,000 in in-kind campaign contributions – items as diverse as sporting tickets, cigars, a crossbow and a vacuum cleaner.
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KYLE DAVIDSON AND JOSH VALIQUETTE
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10/29/20
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Michigan reports that African Americans make up at least 22% of confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 38% of deaths — but are only 14.1% of the state’s population.
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Ri'an Jackson
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10/29/20
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Marilyn Baley is part of a unique group of Trump supporters: Gays for Trump.
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Sean Bradley
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10/27/20
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At least $500,000 of $600,000 in campaign funds raised by candidates in Ingham and Eaton counties has already been spent on Nov. 3's general electionn.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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10/23/20
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The Michigan Department of Corrections spends $3 million each week for testing and staff expenses related to the spike of COVID-19 cases in some prisons.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/23/20
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