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Last fall, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed laws that will take effect in 2027 designed to change how children are taught to read in Michigan’s public schools. In this second of a two-part series, we explore how these changes are likely to look in classrooms, and what factors will decide their success there.
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Trump recently nominated two Michigan mayors to fill appointments of U.S. ambassadors to foreign nations.
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Michigan Senate Democrats announced a plan Wednesday they say will support parents of young children. The proposal, dubbed “Building Blocks,” falls into three parts.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she will travel to Washington D.C. soon to lobby federal officials against proposed big cuts to the U.S. Department of Education and new tariffs against Canada and other trading partners.
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United Methodist leaders, parishioners, car crash survivors, and advocates met with state legislators and rallied on the steps of the state Capitol building on Wednesday to urge restoration of long-term care benefits in Michigan's auto no-fault law.
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Michigan Public’s Data reporter explains Michigan's immigration, detention, and deportation data.
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On this edition of Stateside, we discuss the announcement of two mayors from Michigan being appointed as U.S. ambassadors. Additionally, we have a conversation with a Flint native about his conducting at the Flint Symphony Orchestra.
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My daughter has dyslexia. So when I heard Michigan was passing laws that change how reading is taught in schools – and educate teachers more about dyslexia – I was interested in knowing more. This is the first of a two-part story about what I found.
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Michigan residents could see a slight income tax cut under a bill that advanced out of the state House Finance Committee Tuesday.The bill would lower the tax rate from 4.25% to 4.05%. That’s what it was in 2023, when a law requiring an automatic tax cut when state revenue meets certain benchmarks was triggered.
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Democrats in the state House of Representatives are speaking out against the proposed constitutional amendment that would require additional proof of citizenship to vote in elections. They say the resolution would pose barriers to eligible voters.
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A look at MSU's men's basketball Big Ten Championship run, a family collaborates with a Michigan filmmaker to tell the story of their lives, and a foundational figure in the Black Panther Party and her quest for internal revolution.
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Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber at a medical facility in suburban Detroit. Michigan’s attorney general says Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak, Michigan, was “incinerated” when the hyperbaric chamber exploded in January at the Oxford Center in Troy. The center's founder and three others were arrested Monday on charges including second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Arraignments are scheduled Tuesday afternoon. A lawyer for one defendant told the AP he wants to remind everyone that "this was an accident, not an intentional act."
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President Donald Trump's threat on Tuesday to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.As a result, the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the U.S. president pulled back on his doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, even as the federal government still plans to place a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports starting Wednesday.
Michigan Public introduces a new podcast about Michigan's culinary talent, and the stories behind the food.
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Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.
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The statewide recycling effort could extend the lifespan of Michigan's landfills, which have only 21 years before they are full.
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Whitmer is proposing a 32% tax on wholesale Marijuana products. The industry, already battling record-low prices and oversupply, is worried this will shutter already-struggling businesses.
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Federal legislation would compensate the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for thousands of acres that were taken, without compensation, and transferred to the state of Michigan, between 1855 and 1932.
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