WILDFLOWERS: The Wildflower Association of Michigan has awarded almost $15,000 for local projects promoting the use of more native plants. Recipients include Friends of the St. Clair River in St. …
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Morgan Womack (via Capital News Service)
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3/17/23
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HIGHWAYS: Downtown Detroit’s I-375 Reconnecting Communities project highlights the question of how to reunite parts of Michigan communities where major highway projects destroyed urban, …
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Sophia Brandt (via Capital News Service)
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3/17/23
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While Phillips Orchards & Cider Mill’s Lansing outpost opened at the end of December, there’s another development to celebrate. Last week, the St. Johns-based company began offering its boozy beverages …
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Lizy Ferguson
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3/16/23
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Early last week, Ody Norkin was busy ferrying boxes of surgical gauze, wound dressings, disinfectant and other medical supplies from the back of his car to a spacious, cluttered office in East …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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3/16/23
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I’m confused by veggie burgers, vegan cheese, margarine and all other substitutes for animal products that seek to imitate the very thing the eater wishes to avoid consuming.
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Ari LeVaux
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3/16/23
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Michael Doherty stood on the roof of Lansing’s iconic John Bean building, a 460,000 square-foot brick fortress on South Cedar Street, in July 2020. A global pandemic had shut down much of the country and was killing Americans across the country. But the flamboyant Doherty was excited to share his plans to create the “Jack Daniels” brand of marijuana. …
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Todd Heywood
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3/16/23
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MSU Department of Police and Public Safety released a timeline that shows police entered the MSU Union just one minute after gunman Anthony McRae exited. Ingham County 911 received its first-shots-fired call for Berkey Hall …
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Nicole Noechel
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3/14/23
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MSU police release a timeline of the Feb. 13 shooting that killed three students and injured five. The timeline indicates the killing lasted from 8:18 p.m. to 8:26 p.m. The first alert to students went out at 8:30 p.m. …
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Mike Wilkinson, Jonathan Oosting (via Bridge Magazine)
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3/13/23
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Michigan State Police released a two-page note from the suspected gunman of the campus shooting. The gunman repeatedly said ‘they hurted me.’ He described himself as a loner’ and ‘outcast.’ …
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Isabel Lohman, Jonathan Oosting (via Bridge Magazine)
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3/13/23
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The MSU gunman took handgun out, checked ammunition after entering Union building, newly released footage shows. Police arrived at Union a minute after shooter left. It remains unclear how many were shot at Berkey Hall versus the Union building. …
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Yue Stella Yu (via Bridge Magazine)
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3/13/23
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As the Michigan Legislature looks for ways to invest in the future of our state, it is our sincere hope that lawmakers can see the forest through the trees — literally. …
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Rich Bowman
Bridge Magazine) | 3/12/23 |
Everything from batteries to the power lines needed for our rapidly electrifying economy requires minerals. The International Energy Agency projects that global demand for metals and minerals …
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Colin Seals
Bridge Magazine | 3/12/23 |
Joan Bauer refers to the Michigan state Capitol as the “people’s house.” But as the vice chair of the Capitol Commission, Bauer sees the need to balance open access with …
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Todd Heywood
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3/9/23
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The remains of a modern piece of land art displayed behind the Capitol’s west end from 1980 to 2002 was returned to the original artist after sitting in storage in Detroit for years, the state …
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Kyle Melinn
MIRS Capitol News Service | 3/9/23 |
On June 27, 2022, this unregistered rental property caught fire and took the life of 23-month-old Damian Shessia. An investigation revealed there were no smoke detectors in the property …
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3/9/23
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Emergency alerts to MSU students were delayed for 13 minutes on Feb. 13, Bridge Michigan reported. With every on- and off-duty campus police officer responding to the shooting, no one was left to …
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Nicole Noechel
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3/7/23
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The Michigan Legislature is considering toughening the state’s gun laws. Current laws can be confusing about who can buy guns and where they can carry them. More than one in 10 Michigan adults holds a permit to carry a concealed handgun
More than one in 10 …
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Ron French
Bridge Magazine) | 3/7/23 |
Local criminal court funding remains uncertain as a deadline next year approaches that could eliminate a major source of money for local trial courts. Meanwhile, the Michigan Supreme Court is the Michigan Supreme Court is considering whether judges can constitutionally impose costs on convicted criminal defendants.…
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Jack Timothy Harrison
Capital News Service | 3/7/23 |
“Dark store theory,” a commonly used but disputed form of property tax evaluation for big box retailers, is being taken on again by an Upper Peninsula lawmaker who has been a champion of …
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Dan Netter
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3/6/23
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Two more local Democrats, state Sen. Sarah Anthony and state Rep. Julie Brixie, are considering a run for Congress, they said Friday. That brings to four the number of elected Democrats in Greater …
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Todd Heywood and Berl Schwartz
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3/4/23
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